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June 03, 2009 The Electronic Intifada
	Obama should visit Gaza -- On June 4th, President Barack Obama will give a major policy talk at Cairo University intending to start mending the rift between the United States and the Arab world. Medea Benjamin insists that President Obama visit the Gaza Strip to see the destruction caused by Israel's recent attacks and will also do wonders to repairs our relations with the Arab world that were so tattered during the Bush years.
June 03, 2009 AWID
	Feminist organizing against the Gaza conflict -- Throughout the seemingly intractable Israel-Palestine conflict, civil society has been active in responding to crises and advocating for peace and justice. AWID interviewed Eilat Maoz of the Coalition of Women for Peace, an Israeli organization that works for peace in Israel and Palestine.
May 20, 2009 rabble.ca
	New delegation from Canada to Gaza: Focus is on dire medical situation, plight of children -- Another Codepink delegation to Gaza. We are nine Canadians. Our trip has been sponsored by CodePink, Toronto and Independent Jewish Voices.
May 06, 2009 CommonDreams.org
	Who Will Stop the AIPAC Jews Before it is Too Late? -- What made my heart ache was the hatred I felt from the AIPAC staff who tore up the banner and slammed their hands across my mouth as I tried to yell out: "What about Gaza? What about the children?"
April 06, 2009 Electronic Intifada
	Creative resistance in fair trade conference -- Regardless of how debilitating and damaging the occupation is, [Palestinians] continue to live as best they can and to find creative ways in which to resist occupation while improving their common situation under the unjust circumstances in which they find themselves.
April 02, 2009 Haaretz
	New government may face EU sanctions over two-state solution -- As early as this month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman could face international pressure to clarify their position on the creation of a Palestinian state.
April 01, 2009 The Guardian
	Avigdor Lieberman rules out 'concessions' to Palestinians -- Israel's new foreign minister dismayed the international community today with a rancorous analysis of the peace process and an announcement that the new government favors aggression rather than concessions to the Palestinians.
March 27, 2009 Relief Web
	Gaza’s children need your help -- Tens of thousands of children in Gaza remain at serious risk of physical and psychological harm more than two months after a cease-fire ended the 22-day conflict that began on Dec. 27, 2008, Save the Children reported today.
March 26, 2009 The Nation
	'Tell Her the Truth' -- Israel's recent bombing and ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, Operation Cast Lead, killed 1,417 Palestinians; thirteen Israelis were killed, five by friendly fire. Thousands of Palestinians were seriously wounded and left without adequate medical care, shelter or food. Among the Palestinian dead, more than 400 were children. In response to this devastation, Caryl Churchill wrote a play.
March 22, 2009 Haaretz
	IDF ceased long ago being 'most moral army in the world' -- What shock, what consternation. Haaretz revealed grave accounts by officers and soldiers describing the killing of innocent Palestinian civilians during the war in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces Spokesman was quick to respond that the IDF had no prior or supporting information about the events in question, the defense minister was quick to respond that "the IDF is the most moral army in the world," and the military advocate general said the IDF would investigate.
March 22, 2009 The Guardian
	Gaza war crime claims gather pace as more troops speak out -- An investigation by a group of former Israeli soldiers has uncovered new evidence of the military's conduct during the assault on Gaza two months ago. According to the group Breaking the Silence, the witness statements of the 15 soldiers who have come forward to describe their concerns over Operation Cast Lead appear to corroborate claims of random killings and vandalism carried out during the operation made by a separate group of anonymous servicemen during a seminar at a military college.
March 21, 2009 The Nation
	Palestinian Revolution? -- On Friday I went to the anti-separation wall demo in Ni'lin in the West Bank, the same village where International Solidarity Movement activist Tristan Anderson was critically wounded last week. Several hundred villagers were accompanied by Jewish Israeli activists (most with Anarchists Against the Wall ) and ISMers, plus a few journalists like me. The IDF started firing tear gas at us even before we got close to the wall. The shebab (Palestinian youth) responded with stones, and the game was on: back and forth street battles, with the soldiers alternating between tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and occasional live ammunition, often fired by snipers, and the shebab hurling their stones by slingshot against the Israeli Goliath.
March 20, 2009 The New York Times
	In Village, Palestinians Face Gas With Rocks -- The orchard was carpeted with a riot of wildflowers. Butterflies flitted around, keeping low to the ground. But the seemingly idyllic scene on the edge of this Palestinian village in the West Bank was deceptive. Camouflaged among the olive trees and the cactus bushes were khaki-clad members of the Israeli security forces armed with guns and ample supplies of tear gas, the canisters stored in large metal drums.
March 16, 2009 The Electronic Intifada
	Justice for Rachel, justice for the Palestinians -- We thank all who continue to remember Rachel and who, on this sixth anniversary of her stand in Gaza, renew their own commitments to human rights, justice and peace in the Middle East. The tributes and actions in her memory are a source of inspiration to us and to others. Friday, 13 March, we learned of the tragic injury to American activist Tristan Anderson. Tristan was shot in the head with a tear gas canister in Nilin village in the West Bank when Israeli forces attacked a demonstration opposing the construction of the annexation wall through the village's land. On the same day, a Nilin resident was shot in the leg with live ammunition. Four residents of Nilin have been killed in the past eight months as villagers and their supporters have courageously demonstrated against the Apartheid Wall deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice -- a wall that will ultimately absorb one-quarter of the village's remaining land.
March 10, 2009 Electronic Intifada
	UNICEF head: Gaza children need more support -- UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Ann M. Veneman recently paid a visit to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) to assess the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with special focus on children. As of 5 February, 431 Palestinian children had died and 1,872 had been wounded in the 22-day Israeli offensive which ended on 18 January, according to the Gaza health ministry.
March 07, 2009 Associated Press
	'The Color Purple' author traveling to Gaza -- Pulitzer-prize winning author Alice Walker, who wrote "The Color Purple," is traveling to Gaza along with other female activists to highlight the devastation of the Israeli offensive on Gaza's residents.
March 05, 2009 Daily News Egypt
	American delegation to attempt Gaza entry today -- A 60-member Gaza aid delegation from the United States and Canada will attempt to enter the Strip today via the Rafah border crossing in commemoration of International Women’s Day.
February 28, 2009 The Associated Press
	US to boycott UN racism conference -- WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Friday that the United States will boycott an upcoming U.N. conference on racism unless its final document is changed to drop all references to Israel and the defamation of religion.
February 24, 2009 BBC News
	US to donate '$900m in Gaza aid' -- The United States is preparing to donate some $900m (£621m) for Gaza, an Obama administration official said. The aid would not go to Hamas, the group that controls the territory, but it would help the Palestinian Authority, the official added. It comes as the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prepares to attend a Palestinian donors' conference.
January 29, 2009 Washington Post
	Middle East Envoy Urges 'Lasting Peace' -- Arriving in Israel for his first visit as the Obama administration's Middle East envoy, former senator George J. Mitchell on Wednesday pushed for a more durable truce in the Gaza Strip, calling for a halt to weapons smuggling and for the territory's border crossings to be opened.
January 22, 2009 Reuters
	UN investigator sees evidence of war crimes in Gaza -- There is evidence that Israel committed war crimes during its 22-day campaign in the Gaza Strip and there should be an independent inquiry, U.N. investigator Richard Falk said on Thursday.
January 21, 2009 Daily News Egypt
	Human rights group demands investigation of Gaza war crimes -- The International Federation of Human Rights called for investigating Israeli war crimes committed during its 23-day offensive on the Gaza Strip, Tanya Ward, the federation's vice president said Tuesday.
January 15, 2009 Al Jazeera
	Gaza: The endless cycle of trauma -- The Israeli bombs and rockets streaking through the skies of Gaza trace not only a path of death and terror for Palestinians in 2009, they also outline the smoke trails of traumas past, from the Nakba, or 'catastrophe,' in 1948 to the 1967 war; from the Lebanon invasions, to the 2002 assault on Jenin. All are echoes of today's calamity of US-made missiles and mortars raining down on Gazans.
January 09, 2009 IPS
	MIDEAST: Mourn the Cat That Died -- On the phone from Gaza, Zahrah Salem shares the news she has just seen, that so many at the White House were "deeply saddened" by the death of the cat India Willie. Why, she asks, is nobody at the White House deeply saddened by the death of so many children in Gaza.
December 27, 2008 Electronic Intifada
	Gaza massacres must spur us to action -- A short time earlier, US-supplied Israeli F-16 warplanes and Apache helicopters dropped over 100 bombs on dozens of locations in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip killing at least 195 persons and injuring hundreds more.
August 19, 2008 BBC News
	Truce barely eases Gaza embargo -- For over a year, Israel has allowed little more than basic humanitarian aid into Gaza, as a means of isolating Hamas and stopping militants firing rockets into Israel. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas two months ago was meant to lead to the easing of restrictions, but progress has been slow, and frustration is rising.
July 31, 2008 The Huffington Post
	What Obama Missed in the Middle East -- When I and other Palestinian-Americans first knew Barack Obama in Chicago in the 1990s, he grasped the oppression faced by Palestinians under Israeli occupation. He understood that an honest broker cannot simultaneously be the main cheerleader, financier and arms supplier for one side in a conflict.
July 25, 2008 IPS
	Poverty in Gaza Hits "Unprecedented" Level -- In both the West Bank and Gaza, young people aged 15 to 24 are the most likely of any group to be unemployed, while the number of households in Gaza below the poverty line has reached an historic high of nearly 52 percent, according to a new report by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) issued Thursday.
July 25, 2008 IPS
	Palestinian 'Che' Blindfolded and Shot -- A Youtube video, uploaded on the Internet this week, showing a blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian being fired on at close range by an Israeli soldier in the presence of a Lieutenant-Colonel, has made international and regional headlines.
July 16, 2008 IPS
	Conflict Tops Med Union Agenda -- The Union for the Mediterranean, a French-led grouping of EU nations plus 16 non-European Mediterranean states, was inaugurated Sunday (Jul. 13). The launch of the forum, of which Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is co-president, was dominated by issues related to the perennial Arab-Israeli dispute.