Results for “Gaza Strip”

Israel captures the Sinai peninsula and Gaza

possibly pushing Fatah to align with Hamas. Having the U.N. vote take place while Gaza is at war

much less carry it out - and trigger an Israeli attack on Gaza. Such a scenario casts Israel as the aggressor and Hamas as the victim

mounting only limited attacks on Gaza against mostly members of the Palestinian Resistance Committees

… BARAK / 57 A few days later, the “pre-endgame” around the summit began. Not in Washington or Jerusalem or Ramallah or Gaza, but in Kochav Yair. Nava and I still spent almost all our weekends there. We valued the quiet, or at least the slightly quieter, time away from Jerusalem...

…he areas we targeted. We destroyed the Ramallah police station, as well as a militia base near Arafat’s headquarters in Gaza. But Arafat emerged to tell a cheering crowd: “Our people don’t care. They don’t hesitate to continue their march to Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestin...

Hamas has harshly repressed al Qaeda-inspired jihadists in Gaza

the Gaza municipality launched 12 projects

…rary to Turkey's demands and supports Israel's position. The statements in the report that justify Israel's blockade of Gaza especially please Israel. Sadly, Turkey's legal objections to the blockade no longer bear any political significance. As expected, following the release o...

… get her own room for the first time in her life, but she views her good fortune in context. “For the vast majority in Gaza, things are not improving,” she said. “Most people in Gaza remain forgotten.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032176

on the main West Bank and Gaza towns and refugee camps. We also imposed a curfew on Kiryat Arba and, for the first time, were given the authority to use administrative detention orders not just against Palestinians, but specific Jewish settlers. We arrested about a half-dozen lea...

… the intifada had also thrown up new Palestinian groups grounded not in nationalism, but fundamentalist Islam: Hamas in Gaza, which opposed Israel’s presence on any part of “Muslim Palestine,” and Islamic Jihad on the West Bank. And in Lebanon, we were confronting the Iranian-bac...

… its crew members. Arik was no longer Prime Minister by then. With Bibi marshalling opposition inside the Likud to the Gaza disenagegment, he had formed a new centrist party called Kadima, along with prominent Likud moderates and buttressed by a Labor heavyweight: Shimon Peres....

…s reduced policing in the Sinai have had a profound effect. For the past year, Israel has allowed most everything into Gaza but cement, steel and other construction material — other than for internationally supervised projects — because they are worried that such supplies can be...

…t, even Peres was skeptical that the paper agreed at the “seminar” — calling for international aid to the West Bank and Gaza on the scale of the Marshall Plan, and an initial Israeli withdrawal limited to Gaza — would lead to serious negotiations. But Rabin authorized follow-up s...