Video: Unseen Gaza Channel 4       Jan 24, 2009 Is what has been presented on our screens and in our papers a true reflection of events on the ground in Gaza? And how do these reports differ to those aired in other countries? With reporters unable to enter Gaza, attempted media manipulation from [...]

Long term soil devastation in Gaza due to use of white phosphorus and depleted uranium PNN       Jan 24, 2009 ImageGaza / PNN – Losses are huge in the Gaza Strip with many of the devastated population still in tears, some little kids afraid to return to school today. The environmental effects will [...]

January 23, 2009 In Gaza, Alarm Spreads Over Use of Lethal New Weapons by Erin Cunningham GAZA CITY – Eighteen-year-old Mona al-Ashkar says she did not immediately know the first explosion at the United Nations (UN) school in Beit Lahiya had blown her left leg off. There was smoke, then chaos, then the pain and [...]

Patrick Cockburn: In Israel, detachment from reality is now the norm All these years on from Sabra and Chatila, has anything changed? Thursday, 22 January 2009 I was watching the superb animated documentary Waltz with Bashir about the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. It culminates in the massacre of some 1,700 Palestinians in the [...]

Fatah fears Gaza conflict has put Hamas in the ascendancy Palestinian party created by Yasser Arafat suffers sharp decline in support By Patrick Cockburn in Nablus January 23, 2009 “The Independent” — The Islamic movement Hamas is taking over from Fatah, the party created by Yasser Arafat, as the main Palestinian national organisation as a result [...]

January 8, 2009 Holocaust Denied The lying silence of those who know   by John Pilger   “When the truth is replaced by silence,” the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, “the silence is a lie.” It may appear the silence is broken on Gaza. The cocoons of murdered children, wrapped in green, together with boxes [...]

Video: Mosques not spared in Gaza war – 23 Jan 09 AlJazeeraEnglish   Jan 23, 2009 Gazans have started the massive task of rebuilding, after Israel’s three-week war on the strip. Even its 24 mosques weren’t spared. But for the first time since the offensive ended, Muslims will be able to hold Friday prayers. Zeina [...]

The self-defence defence Rachel Shabi       Jan 23, 2009 Accusations of war crimes by foreign critics simply bounce off Israel’s bullet-proof sense of moral imperative in its military action Wartime in Israel is effectively a totalitarian blackout: objectors are denounced as traitors and suppressed or sidelined, while the media almost entirely ignores the [...]

UN investigator Richard Falk says evidence shows Israelis committed war crimes in Gaza Ma’an news       Jan 23, 2009 There is evidence that Israel committed war crimes during its three-week onslaught in the Gaza Strip, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, Richard Falk said on Thursday. Falk said [...]

Gaza phosphorus casualties relive Israel’s three-week war  Special Report: Tim Butcher in Gaza City argues why the true story about Israel’s use of phosphorus shells may never emerge. Tim Butcher,Telegraph       Sabbah Abu Halima, 45, suffered burns in the shelling of the village of Atatra on the northern edge of Gaza. She saw [...]

Starve Them; Shoot Them; then Give Them Cancer An Inquiry into Israel’s use of DIME weaponry in of the Gaza Strip James Brooks, Vermonters for a Just Peace Original Article: http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article799 23 January 2009 At the end of 2006, James Brooks from Vermonters for a Just Peace published a three part expose into Israel’s suspected [...]

When the assault on Gaza entered its nineteenth day, with no end in sight. Israel continued its intense bombardment of the territory as Israeli troops edged closer to the heart of Gaza City. Nearly 1,000 Palestinians had been killed, more than 4,400 injured, many of them women and children. Thirteen Israelis had died over the [...]