Tag Archives: Gaza
Whether or not he achieves diplomatic breakthroughs on his visit to Israel, President Obama’s trip could help the peace process by focusing news media attention, for once, on positive aspects of normal existence in that controversial corner of the Middle … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Barack Obama, Gaza, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jerusalem, Middle East, Palestinian people, United States, west bank
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By David Horowitz Introduction Israel, the only democracy and tolerant society in the Middle East, is surrounded by Muslim states that have sworn to destroy it and have conducted a genocidal propaganda campaign against the Jews, promising to “finish the … read more »
By Amira Hass, haaretz The inspiration for the Arab Spring came from young people in the street, but it seemed to bypass the West Bank and Gaza. Haaretz tracks down the Palestinians still talking about a revolution “Hold your head … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Arab Spring, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, IndepthAfrica, Mahmoud Abbas, Ramallah, tahrir square, west bank
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By Kathy Kelly – Gaza Dr. T., a medical doctor, is a Palestinian living in Gaza City. He is still reeling from days of aerial bombardment. When I asked about the children in his community he told me his church … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Beit Lahia, Gaza, Gazan, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Kathy Kelly, Palestinian people, Santa Claus
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By Brandon Friedman The current confrontation between Israel and Hamas has its roots in Egypt. On 5 August, sixteen Egyptian soldiers were killed by militants crossing into Egypt from Gaza. During the attack the militants seized two Egyptian Armored Personnel … read more »
Posted in America, Analysis, Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged August, Egypt, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Hamas, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Kerem Shalom, Salafi-Jihadist
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by AUDREY BOMSE and JAMES MARC LEAS Gaza City. The Palestinian Authority would be “traitors” if they agreed to a condition the UK is seeking to impose in exchange for agreeing to support Palestine upgrading its membership in the UN. … read more »
By Ramzy Baroud In life, some phenomena cannot be explained by ordinary logic or technical language, let alone official discourses. How did Gaza manage to fight back with such ferocity and undying vigor in quelling the latest Israeli war despite … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza, Gaza War, Hamas, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestinian people, tel aviv
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By Ahmed G. Ferwana – Gaza Smiling out of exhaustion as I wished a nice weekend to my colleagues and students, I left the American International School of Gaza – AISG, where I work as a Language and Literature teacher, … read more »
THE MANTRA of this round was Once And For All. “We must put an end to this (the rockets, Hamas, the Palestinians, the Arabs?) Once and For All!” – this cry from the heart was heard dozens of times daily … read more »
As it happened four years ago, the Israelis are again in Gaza, cutting down anything and everyone in their way. As they are known to be, the Israelis do not discriminate when it comes to killing: the Old Testament of … read more »
Posted in Egypt, Global Issues, Middle East, North Africa
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Tagged Anwar Sadat, Gaza, Israel, israeli, Middle East, Palestine, United Nations General Assembly, United States
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Tuesday night, Israel and Hamas agreed to halt hostilities. Midnight local time was chosen. Hamas didn’t want conflict in the first place. Israel is a rogue state. It’s a serial provocateur. Multiple attacks were launched. Hamas responded defensively. It’s their … read more »
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Six men accused of being ‘Israeli spies’ were dragged through the streets of Gaza City and executed in front of a chanting mob today as Israel warned Palestinians to evacuate some areas of the territory in apparent … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Global Issues, Middle East, Nigeria, Somali, South Sudan, Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Egypt, Gaza, Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Hamas, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Palestinian people
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By Robert Spencer The Jerusalem Post reported Monday that “Israel agreed to briefly hold off on sending ground forces into Gaza to allow time for cease-fire efforts to continue.” Meanwhile, Hamas top dog Khaled Mashaal demanded that Israel initiate a … read more »
By Benedetta Berti, Published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute While the eyes of the world are focused on the raging military confrontation between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, Israel is dealing with broader instability in its immediate surroundings: from … read more »
By David Lev New Ethiopian immigrants, who have no family in the country, are especially suffering from Hamas’ ongoing rocket attacks Although “only” three Israelis have been killed as a result of the ongoing Hamas terror rocket attacks against Israel, … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Far East, Gaza, Hamas, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky, Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel
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Gaza, (Alresalah.ps)—Sudan vice president stated Sunday that sudan will not stop supporting Palestinian resistance of Hamas despite Israeli “aggression,”. Remarks of sudanise offcial came less than two weeks after Israel bombed a plant in the Sudanese capital. A blast at … read more »
Posted in Article, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Gaza, Hajj, Hamas, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Israel, Khartoum, Second Vice President (Spain), Sudan
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Analysis: Iran missiles destroyed in attack on Khartoum ‘factory’ could have threatened Israeli ships, oil and gas drilling. Israel Opinion All signs indicate that it was not an “arms factory” that was bombed in Sudan recently, but a huge shipment … read more »
Posted in Article, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Egypt, Gaza, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Israel, Khartoum, Omar al-Bashir, Satellite Sentinel Project, Sudan, Sudan news, sudanese news
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By: James M. Dorsey When Spanish giants Real Madrid and FC Barcelona clashed this weekend, two matches separated by thousands of kilometers were played, one on and one off the pitch. The Spanish clash ended in a draw in Barcelona’s … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Barcelona, camp nou, FC Barcelona, Gaza, Hamas, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica African news, Israel, Palestinian people, west bank
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By Ramzy Baroud If the new Egyptian leadership thinks it is possible to achieve lasting reconciliation between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah within the current political climate, it is likely to be disappointed. In the case of Gaza, the … read more »
On Sunday night, terrorists at the Egyptian-Israeli border stormed a checkpoint and massacred 16 Egyptian border guards there. They then drove two vehicles toward Israel with the aim of perpetrating a mass-casualty attack against Israeli civilians—thwarted by the combined efforts … read more »
CAIRO — Egyptian helicopter gunships killed 20 militants in the Sinai on Wednesday, state media and the army said, days after 16 soldiers were killed in an attack attributed to Islamist extremists. The air strikes on Tumah village — the … read more »
Posted in Egypt, News, North Africa, Spotlight
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Tagged Arish, Egypt, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula
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I was recently challenged by a polite academic who claimed to be dumbfounded by the fact that I rejected as absurd his use of the term “Apartheid Wall” to refer to Israel’s security barrier fence. He demanded to know why … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, africa news today, African news, Arab, BBC Africa, bbc africa news, David Ben Gurion, East Africa, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, Israel, latest africa news, map africa, map of africa, news, news 24, news in africa, North Africa, Palestinian Territories, South Africa, south african news, travel to africa, West Africa, west bank, Yitzhak Rabin
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BEIRUT — It may be that researchers would want to examine as long ago as the period from the 3rd century BC until the beginning of the 17th century in order to find a regime so frenetically building walls and … read more »
Posted in Columnist, Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, African news, Gaza, Golan Heights, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Qin Shi Huang, west bank
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Gaza City – Israel on Sunday deported a Palestinian woman prisoner who spent 43 days on hunger strike to the Gaza Strip, under a deal that has been criticised by Palestinians. Eyewitnesses and Palestinian officials told AFP that Hanaa Shalabi … read more »
Posted in World News
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Hungerstrike, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Palestinian people, Palestinian prisoners in Israel, Shalabi, west bank
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Palestinian terrorists fired more than 160 rockets at dozens of civilian targets from Friday through Sunday, injuring three Israeli citizens and causing extensive damage. The escalated rocket attacks were in apparent retaliation for an Israeli strike against one of the … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Africa news, African, African news, Gaza, Hamas, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Nigeria, Indepth Soccer, Iron Dome, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, israeli, Popular Resistance Committee, PRC
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Defenders of the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, which declares the entire world to be a “battlefield” against terrorism and authorizes the U.S. military to detain indefinitely anyone suspected of being a terrorism supporter, have claimed that the White … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Congress, Gaza, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Israel, National Defense Authorization Act, Transportation Security Administration, United States, White House
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There is a danger in giving an account of the human damage sustained there that an image will be given of Gaza as a society of victims. Gaza is an exceptional social, political and economic space full of extraordinary paradoxes. … read more »
Posted in Article, Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Gaza, Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian people, Rafah
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November 2, 2011 by benim
Maputo – Lynch mobs in southern Mozambique have killed two people they accused of being witches, state media said Wednesday. “Those who were detained in connection with the death of these people accuse their victims of witchcraft. Some of the … read more »
Posted in Mozambique, News, Southern Africa
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Tagged Embassies and Consulates, Gaza, Gaza Province, Government, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, Maputo, Mozambique, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Old age, Pan African News, Southern Africa, West Africa
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October 18, 2011 by benim
Gaza – Gaza’s Hamas Islamist rulers released captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on Tuesday in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, a Hamas military source said, in a deal ending a saga that has gripped Israel for five years. The … read more »
Posted in Egypt, News, North Africa
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Israel, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, West Africa, west bank
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Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed one gunman and wounded five other Palestinians, medical sources said, after militants in the Hamas-controlled territory fired rockets into southern Israel. No injuries were reported in a rocket attack on … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, Arab League, breaking news, East Africa, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Hamas, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Middle East, North Africa, Palestinian people, Pan African News, Southern Africa, Warfare and Conflict, West Africa
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