Where Gaza appears
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…dismisses Prime Minister Haniyeh and declares a state of emergency. 15 June 2007 Hamas takes control over the Gaza Strip in a coup, after several days of violent battles with Fatah. 15 June 2007 Salam Fayyad appointed Prime Minister of the...
…es. In that spirit, 1 would suggest that you dismantle the settlements and pull your troops completely out of Gaza.” For a minute I worried that this would anger him, but he answered very calmly. “I cannot do it.” I asked why. He said: “Bec...
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…nd the holding of elections. The Israeli Cabinet suspends peace talks with the Palestinians in protest to the Gaza agreement. Palestinian unity government headed by Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah is sworn in. Bashar al-Assad is re-elected Pr...
… period in Olmert’s government, my final few months were dominated by finding a way to end Hamas attacks from Gaza. During one 24-hour period in November, Hamas launched more than 100 rockets at towns in the south, while also attacking two...
, I’d be either in the kirya or a forward command post. Since nearly all of them happened after nightfall, Yitzhak would usually be back home, asleep, by the time they ended. I would phone him. The trademark voice – slow, gravelly, deep eve...
…It was not a burst of anger, however misdirected, by stone- throwing youths convinced that a road accident in Gaza had been something more sinister. There had been no serious unrest on the day of Arik’s visit. We would later learn this was...
…ing. The Israeli position defies a brutal truth: last year’s flotilla made a big difference for the people of Gaza — at a terrible cost in lives — by refocusing international attention on their plight and forcing a change in Israeli policy....
Hamas is the government of Gaza -- and terrorism helped
Israel was in control of Gaza and the whole of the Sinai.
Article 1. NYT Setting Sail on Gaza’s Sea of Spin Ethan Bronner July 2, 2011 -- SOME see a parallel with the Exodus, the ship filled with Jewish refugees that tried to break the British blockade of Palestine in 1947 and helped sway world op...
…57 countries with Israel in exchange for Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 border. They threw it away by bombing Gaza, by intensifying collective punishments, and by increasing settlement construction all over the occupied West Bank, particula...
… talks, hope was dashed by Israeli intransigence, reinforced by the violent uprising across the West Bank and Gaza, as well as internal tensions within the Palestinian leadership. In an attempt to revive the peace process, President George...
…red a series of violent clashes. 7 July 2014 Israel launches operation ‘Protective Edge’ against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in retaliation to rocket attacks. 26 August 2014 A ceasefire, brokered by Egypt, was reached to end hostilities between...
…k. In 2003, the Government of France seconded him to the United Nations. In this capacity, he served first in Gaza/Jerusalem as the special assistant of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle Peace Process. In 2005, he moved to UN headqu...
…bullet-riddled, torched police station of Sheikh Zuweid, a densely populated town roughly nine miles from the Gaza border. It is just one of the security buildings that has fallen victim to the long-running clashes between the military and...
…and guidance technology and designed to deal with the missile threat from Hizbollah on our northern border and Hamas in Gaza. It had not yet been used in battle. But from test firings, we were confident it could destroy incoming rockets wit…
