From Occupied Palestine

Israelis keep a fishy watch
JON ELMER
Inter Press Service, 14 February 2007

Gaza City, Feb 14 (IPS) -- In the driving rain, Suhail el-Amoudi stands on the wharf of the Gaza City port looking out over the aged and weathered fishing boats as they bob perilously amid the swells of a Mediterranean winter storm.

But for el-Amoudi, a 30-year veteran fisher of Gaza's waters, it is not the waves or the wind that concerns him. Rather, it is the Israeli naval vessel on the horizon, clearly visible despite the storm.

Peter MacKay in Israel and Palestine
JON ELMER
The Dominion, 25 January 2007

The Palestinians: It is the little things that make an occupation
Economist, 20 January 2007, p.64

Gaza town shocked and battered by Israeli raid
NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI
Reuters, 4 November 2006

Beit Hanoun, Gaza -- Rasmiya Mahmoud has seen plenty of Israeli raids into the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. But nothing like this.

Dozens of Israeli tanks have encircled the town of 30,000 people since Wednesday. Heavily armed soldiers, trying to stop militant rocket fire at the nearby Jewish state, have fought running battles with militants.

Not an internal Palestinian matter
AMIRA HASS
Ha'aretz, 4 October 2006

The experiment was a success: The Palestinians are killing each other. They are behaving as expected at the end of the extended experiment called "what happens when you imprison 1.3 million human beings in an enclosed space like battery hens."

Palestinian displacement: a case apart?
University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre
Forced Migration Review 26 (September 2006)

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'Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now'
PATRICK COCKBURN
Independent, 8 September 2006

Gaza -- Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a great tragedy is taking place that is being ignored because the world's attention has been diverted by wars in Lebanon and Iraq.

Can you really not see?
AMIRA HASS
Ha'aretz, 30 August 2006

Let us leave aside those Israelis whose ideology supports the dispossession of the Palestinian people because "God chose us." Leave aside the judges who whitewash every military policy of killing and destruction. Leave aside the military commanders who knowingly jail an entire nation in pens surrounded by walls, fortified observation towers, machine guns, barbed wire and blinding projectors. Leave aside the ministers. All of these are not counted among the collaborators. These are the architects, the planners, the designers, the executioners.

Israeli siege leaves Gaza isolated and desperate
DOUG STRUCK
Washington Post, 28 August 2006, p. A1

GAZA CITY, Aug. 27 -- As the sun beat down on the city's central market, Khitam Shahleen, 37, glumly picked through a pile of cheap pencil sharpeners, searching for something -- anything -- she could afford to buy her two sons for the start of the new school year.

The occupier defines justice
AMIRA HASS
Ha'aretz, 23 August 2006

On Jerusalem's Jabotinsky Street, opposite the President's Residence, a medium-sized plaque is fixed on a locked gate, enclosing a broad building and a lovely garden: "This building was the location of the British Mandate Government's High Military Court, which held the trials of the Hebrew resistance fighters from the Haganah, Etzel and Lehi." The sign bears the emblems of the Jerusalem municipality and the three resistance organizations. It further notes: "The resistance fighters refused to acknowledge the authority of the court to judge them, and asked to be recognized as prisoners of war."