Abu Mazen becomes his own people’s butcher: Abbas rejects free trade zone with Egypt, calls to shut tunnels

Al Ray Agencies | Aug 4, 2013 Gaza, Alray – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas refused on Monday evening the establishment of a free trade zone between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Abbas explained during a meeting with representatives of Egyptian local media in Cairo “this had not been previously discussed; the authority refuses to take […]

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Hamas appeals to Egypt after Israel halves fishing zone

Maan News Agency | By Dan Williams | March 22, 2013 GAZA CITY (Reuters) — Hamas complained to Egypt on Friday after Israel suspended part of a Cairo-brokered truce agreement by halving Palestinian access to fishing waters in response to a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip. Thursday’s salvo at the Israeli border town of […]

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Hamad: Egypt considering the creation of a trade exchange zone with Gaza

[ PIC 05/08/2012 – 09:19 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian deputy minister of foreign affairs Ghazi Hamad said the establishment of a trade exchange zone between Egypt and the Gaza Strip is still being studied by the Egyptian side. Hamad stated in a press release on Saturday that the presence of such trade zone would […]

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A warning against Israeli attempts to create a buffer zone along the Gaza border

[ PIC 14/06/2012 – 06:57 PM ] GAZA,(PIC)– A Palestinian human rights organization warned against the disastrous effects of the Israeli attempts to declare a buffer zone north-east of the Gaza Strip, depriving the Palestinian farmers from their land and crops. The occupation forces broke into Southeast Salq Valley in central Gaza, on Tuesday, accompanied […]

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Israeli Fighter Jets bombed Gaza last night

Al Qassam Brigade 06-06-2012,08:48 Al Qassam website – Palestinian sources confirmed today morning, 06/06/2012 , that two civilians were wounded, one of them injured seriously, in the Israeli aircraft shelling to an empty land by the Israeli Fighter jets northern of Gaza Strip. According to our correspondent in the northern Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation […]

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Neither threats nor murders will stop our demonstrations

Nathan Stuckey | 4 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Over the weekend Israeli planes dropped flyers over Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia warning that anyone who approached within three hundred meters of the border would be shot. It is not as though the people don’t know of this policy. As the following conversation […]

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Premier Haneyya calls for free zone between Egypt and Gaza

Gaza Under Attack – Timeline | Pictures Aug 2011 | Oct 2011 | Dec 2011| Jan 2012 [ 30/01/2012 – 11:31 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya urged Palestinian businessmen and economic experts to embark on drawing up plans for a joint free zone between Egypt and Gaza. Premier Haneyya made his remarks […]

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March on the No Go Zone – Jan 17, 2012 – video

Gaza Under Attack – Timeline | In pictures Aug-Sept 2011 | Oct-Nov 2011 | Dec 2011 On Tuesday, 17 January 2012, the International Solidarity Movement joined the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative for its weekly march into the deadly No Go Zone in the northern Gaza Strip. Source For who does not understand the need or […]

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Planting the seeds of resistance and steadfastness in the no go zone – in pictures

Gaza Under Attack – Timeline | In pictures Aug-Sept 2011 | Oct-Nov 2011 | Dec 2011 by Nathan Stuckey | 13 December 2011 | ISM Photo: Beit Hanoun Local Initiative We set off from in front of the Beit Hanoun Agricultural College under the flags of half a dozen countries, but listening to the music […]

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#Silwan committee unveils Israeli scheme to take over Al-Bustan zone

Related : Silwan in Pictures [ 25/08/2011 – 12:16 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Spokesman for Silwan defense committee Abdulkarim Abu Sunaina revealed an Israeli Judaization scheme to encroach into Silwan district and wipe out Al-Bustan neighborhood using different excuses such as the establishment of sewerage systems. Abu Sunaina, in a press release on Tuesday, […]

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The Bertini Agreement – Aug 2002

Related to the post: The Brutal blockade of Gaza Subject: Re: Bertini Agreement From: Wiltrud Harms <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: International Law Librarians List (Int-Law) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:35:09 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Type: text/html Greetings, INT-LAWers: After conducting keyword and full-text searches in UNBISnet and ODS without success, and finding no references […]

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IOF declares Nablus village closed military zone

04/06/2011 – 09:00 AM | PIC NABLUS, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday declared Iraq Burin village, south of Nablus, a closed military zone and prevented entry into it. Abdulrahim Qadus, the village’s municipality chief, told the PIC that IOF patrols blocked entrance to the village and prevented entry except to inhabitants. He […]

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IOF declares Iraq Burin closed military zone

[ 28/05/2011 – 05:46 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– The Israel occupation forces (IOF) has declared Iraq Burin village south of Nablus city in the West Bank a closed military zone in a bid to block media and activists from entering the village ahead of anti-apartheid wall protests. The IOF has erected a barrier at the […]

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Salfit area declared closed military zone

Published today (updated) 17/05/2011 21:52 SALFIT (Ma’an) — Israeli forces declared an area in Salfit a closed military zone. Local official Nathmi Salman Deir Estaya said soldiers deployed and evacuated farmers. The soldiers in Wadi Qana refused to show documents explaining the ban, he said. Source

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W. Bank cordoned, O. Jerusalem closed military zone on nakba day

[ 15/05/2011 – 10:41 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) imposed a military cordon around the West Bank for 24 hours and turned occupied Jerusalem into a closed military zone at the behest of war minister Ehud Barak. The Hebrew radio said the cordon on the West Bank is part of the […]

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