Deir el-Balah

Gaza Fire Caused by Missile Aimed for Israel

A seven-kilometer-long noxious black cloud is hovering over central Gaza for the seventh straight day, because a missile aimed at Israel hit a waste disposal site in Wadi As-Salqa, inside Gaza, starting a fire. The mayor of...

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Out in the cold

Saleh Al-Naami details the harsh conditions that Gaza residents will endure this winter Left homeless after the brutal invasion last December and enduring the continuing seige by Israel, Palestinian refugees in Gaza face a...

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A grim anniversary in Gaza

In celebrating the one-year anniversary of President Obama's election night on Wednesday, I feel compelled to recognize a much grimmer anniversary, one that was far less reported and recognized in light of the historic...

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Gaza girl killed in border clash

Gaza is struggling to recover from the recent conflict with Israel A 17-year-old Palestinian girl has been killed in Gaza by Israeli fire. After initial denials, Israeli army officials said the girl was killed by Israeli troops...

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HRW Report on IDF – One-Sided and Deceptive

I just looked a little at the Human Rights Watch report on Israeli drones killing civilians in Gaza. The report was mainly written by Marc Garlasco, who had famously blamed Israel for the very ambiguous Gaza beach blast in 2006...

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Gaza woman found slain in most recent "honor killing"

Gaza - Ma’an - The body of a 21-year-old woman was uncovered in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in the Deir Al-Balah Refugee Camp in a murder that appeared to be an “honor killing.” The Palestine Center for Human Rights...

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MIDEAST: Finding Fish, But Israelis Too

By Eva Bartlett GAZA CITY, Jul 1 (IPS) - At 6am on Jun. 16, Sadallah and his brother Abdel Hadi Sadallah, in their early twenties, went roughly 400 metres out to sea off the coast of Sudaniya in Gaza's northwest. Their small...

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