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April 24, 2008 BBC News
	Fuel crisis halts Gaza food aid -- The United Nations says it has had to halt food distribution in the Gaza Strip because it has run out of fuel.
April 23, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle
	Hamas offers conditional truce in Gaza -- Senior Hamas representatives said Tuesday that the militant group is willing to accept a cease-fire limited to the Gaza Strip, dropping a long-standing demand that the West Bank be included in a halt to fighting with Israel.
April 21, 2008 The Guardian
	Carter: Hamas will accept Israel's right to live in peace -- "There's no doubt that both the Arab world and Hamas will accept Israel's right to exist in peace within 1967 borders," Carter said.
April 16, 2008 Relief Web
	Weekly Report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory -- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)
April 09, 2008 Telegraph
	Israel bars UN envoy after 'holocaust' claim -- Israel has said it will refuse a visa for the new United Nations human rights envoy to the Palestinians after he said it was responsible for a “Holocaust in the making” in Gaza.
April 09, 2008 Haaretz
	Peace Now: Our views are now mainstream but peace still elusive -- Israel's largest peace group marked what it called a bittersweet milestone Tuesday, 30 years since its foundation. Peace Now's call for the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel has largely been embraced by the Israeli mainstream, but peace itself remains painfully elusive, representatives of the movement said.
April 05, 2008 Inter Press Service
	Israel and Syria Flirt Dangerously -- With negotiations on the Palestinian track limping along unproductively, Israeli leaders have again begun talking about renewing peace negotiations with Syria. But at the same time they are keeping a wary eye on new deployments by the Syrian military.
March 30, 2008 BBC
	Israel to cut W Bank roadblocks -- Israel and the Palestinian Authority have agreed to a series of "concrete steps" to ease Palestinians' lives in the West Bank, US officials have said.
March 28, 2008 Electronic Intifdada
	The high road to freedom -- Last week, Fatah and Hamas officials held direct talks for the first time since Hamas' June takeover of Gaza...However, it is unclear whether these talks, like those that preceded the Gaza takeover, will result in reconciliation and national unity.
March 14, 2008 Inter Press Service
	Opening the Door to Hamas -- Undermined by recent violence, the U.S.-brokered Palestinian-Israeli peace process laid out in Annapolis, Maryland is in critical condition. And bringing the militant Islamic group Hamas into the fold could be the only way to save the faltering plan -- an idea that even the George W. Bush administration may be reluctantly conceding is a necessary step.
March 10, 2008 Inter Press Service
	MIDEAST: An Uneasy Calm Descends -- After the latest round of Mideast bloodletting, in early March, in which over 100 Palestinians were killed, four Israeli soldiers died and Palestinian rockets for the first time slammed into a major Israeli city, a tense quiet has descended on the area.
March 09, 2008 BBC News
	Israel approves settlement growth -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has approved a plan to build up to 750 new homes in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
March 07, 2008 BBC
	Eight killed at Jerusalem school -- The White House has led international condemnation but the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas called the attack "heroic" while not claiming responsibility...[T]he 15-strong UN Security Council failed to agree on a resolution condemning the attack because of reservations from temporary member Libya, which sought to link it to Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip.
March 06, 2008 BBC News
	Gaza conditions 'at 40-year low' -- Gaza's humanitarian situation is at its worst since Israel occupied the territory in 1967, say UK-based human rights and development groups.
March 03, 2008 The Guardian
	Punishing the people -- Up to 70 Palestinians have died in two days of fighting, after Israel launched an offensive - involving ground troops, air strikes and shelling - to stop the firing of Qassam rockets. Half the casualties of Israel's onslaught are civilian, including women, children and a 21-month-old baby.
March 02, 2008 Reuters
	UN Security Council urges end of Gaza violence -- The U.N. Security Council on Sunday urged Israel and Palestinian militants to cease all violence in Gaza after the U.N. secretary-general condemned what he called Israel's "excessive" use of force.
March 02, 2008 The Palestinian Information Center
	Anti-Zionist Jews condemn Gaza massacres -- A worldwide organization representing anti-Zionist Jews has strongly condemned the ongoing mass killing and maiming by the Israeli occupation army of hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
March 02, 2008 Electronic Intifdada
	Gaza deaths surpass 100; hundreds injured -- The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights condemns in the strongest possible terms the continuing Israeli Occupation Forces' (IOF) open war on the civilians of the Gaza Strip. Air and land bombardments have killed 101 Palestinians since 27 February, and injured hundreds of others.
March 02, 2008 BBC News
	Abbas breaks contact with Israel -- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has suspended contact with Israel in protest at an assault on Gaza which has killed about 100 people, an aide says.
February 28, 2008 The New York Times
	Palestinians Fear Two-Tier Road System -- “They took our land to build this road, and now we can’t even use it,” Mr. Abu Safia says bitterly, pointing to the highway with one hand as he drives with the other. “Israel says it is because of security. But it’s politics.”
February 27, 2008 Haaretz
	Poll: Most Israelis back direct talks with Hamas on Shalit -- Sixty-four percent of Israelis say the government must hold direct talks with the Hamas government in Gaza toward a cease-fire and the release of captive soldier Gilad Shalit. Less than one-third (28 percent) still opposes such talks.
February 26, 2008 International Herald Tribune
	UN expert: Palestinian terror 'inevitable' result of occupation -- A report commissioned by the United Nations suggests that Palestinian terrorism is the "inevitable consequence" of Israeli occupation and laws that resemble South African apartheid — a claim Israel rejected Tuesday as enflaming hatred between Jews and Palestinians.
February 25, 2008 Reuters
	ISRAEL-OPT: Fuel shortages affecting Gazans at all levels -- Fuel shortages and power outages in the Gaza Strip continue to affect civilians and institutions such as hospitals, and remain a part of daily life.
February 25, 2008 Reuters
	Gazans stage mass protest against Israeli blockade -- Thousands of Palestinians formed a human chain in the Gaza Strip on Monday in a protest against an Israeli blockade that has deepened hardship in the Hamas-controlled territory.
February 17, 2008 Human Rights Watch
	Israel’s Use of Cluster Bombs Shows Need for Global Ban -- The human devastation inflicted on Lebanon by Israel’s illegal use of cluster munitions highlights the urgent need for an international treaty banning the weapon, Human Rights Watch said in releasing a report today.
February 12, 2008 Haaretz
	ANALYSIS: Hamas banks on IDF invasion to deliver final blow to Abbas -- In the diplomatic arena, Hamas believes a confrontation with Israel that may shed a lot of blood will make their organization seem heroic in the eyes of the Arab public...At the same time, criticism against the organization by its Fatah foes will be construed as supporting Israel as it slays Palestinians.
February 11, 2008 The Electronic Intifada
	Israel's "next logical step" -- Israeli official propaganda presents all its recent actions as defensive and necessary to stop the rockets fired by Palestinian fighters in Gaza. But if Israel's goal was to achieve calm and a cessation of violence, the first logical step would not be to contemplate new atrocities, but to respond positively to Hamas' repeated ceasefire proposals.
February 07, 2008 Haaretz
	Senator: U.S. to boycott UN anti-racism meet due to anti-Israel agenda -- A U.S. senator says the United States has decided not to attend next year's follow-up to the 2001 United Nations World Conference on Racism because the panel seems certain to repeat anti-Semitic and anti-Israel positions of the original gathering.
February 07, 2008 Alert Net
	Blair: Palestinians carrying out 'road map' plan -- International Middle East envoy Tony Blair said on Thursday the Palestinians were meeting their security obligations under a long-stalled "road map" peace plan and that Israel should start responding.
February 06, 2008 Haaretz
	Red Cross urges immediate global ban on cluster bombs -- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on Wednesday for urgent conclusion of a global pact to ban cluster weapons even if big powers like the United States, Russia and China were not ready to join.