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Slain US activist’s parents face Israeli killer (AP)

October 21st, 2010

AP - The parents of an American protester crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip got their first chance Thursday to hear from the man…

Peres: Turkish conditions for meeting unacceptable (AP)

September 21st, 2010

Shimon Peres, President of Israel, responds to questions during a news conference at United Nations headquarters Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)AP - A planned meeting between Israeli President Shimon Peres and his Turkish counterpart was scrapped because of the Israeli leader’s refusal to apologize for the deadly commando raid on…

Gaza tunnel smugglers cutting through Egypt’s wall (AP)

July 22nd, 2010

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 14, 2008 file photo, a Palestinian smuggler moves a goat through a tunnel from Egypt to the Gaza Strip under the border in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. An Egyptian security official said Thursday, July 22, 2010 that the underground steel wall built by Egypt to stop smuggling under its border with Gaza has been breached hundreds of times. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)AP - A Palestinian tunnel smuggler with a blowtorch sliced through an underground steel wall early Thursday, the latest of what officials say are hundreds of holes cut into the…

Israel to allow most goods into Gaza (AP)

July 5th, 2010

A Palestinian man shops at a store selling home appliances in a market in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 1, 2010. Israel is still deciding exactly what it will and will not allow into Gaza under a new approach towards the enclave, which it has blockaded for four years. As it changes the policy, some previously banned goods have started to flow across the border. As yet, there is no sign of the basic materials and machine parts which aid workers and businessmen say Gaza needs if the homeless are to be rehoused and the economy is to be revived to alleviate growing poverty attributed to the blockade.br /<br /></a> To match feature PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL/GAZA-BLOCKADEbr /<br /> REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS SOCIETY)AP - Israel on Monday dropped its long-standing restrictions on allowing consumer goods into the Gaza Strip but retained limits on desperately needed construction materials, redefining the rules of its…

Israel agrees to ease Gaza land blockade (AP)

June 17th, 2010

A Palestinian woman waits to cross to Egypt at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip June 1, 2010. Israel's security cabinet decided on Thursday to ease a Gaza land blockade following an binternational/b outcry over a deadly raid on an aid flotilla. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemAP - Israel agreed Thursday to ease its land blockade on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, hoping to quell growing worldwide outrage following a deadly raid on an international flotilla bound…

Israel says it will ease Gaza land blockade (AP)

June 17th, 2010

A Palestinian woman waits to cross to Egypt at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip June 1, 2010. Israel's security cabinet decided on Thursday to ease a Gaza land blockade following an binternational/b outcry over a deadly raid on an aid flotilla. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemAP - Israel agreed on Thursday to ease its land blockade on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, hoping to quell growing international criticism following a deadly sea raid.


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Israel lifts ban on some foods for Gaza (AP)

June 9th, 2010

A Palestinian girl holding a national flag stands near the border line with Israel, background, during a weekly protest march against Israel, in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday June 8, 2010. The sudden opening of Gaza's gateway to the world through its southern border with Egypt has turned into a scene of extreme anxiety. Hundreds crowd around border officials to snatch updates on whether they can cross to Egypt by day's end, mostly only to be told 'no.' (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Israel took a first step Wednesday to temper the uproar caused by its deadly high-seas raid on a blockade-busting flotilla by allowing in potato chips, cookies, spices and…

Israel to expel all activists by day’s end (AP)

June 2nd, 2010

Egyptian opposition activists clash with riot police during a demonstration in front of the Shura Council in Cairo to condemn Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Israel on Tuesday vowed to block all aid ships heading for Gaza as defiant activists said they would launch another bid to smash the Israeli blockade, despite the latest mission ending in tragedy.(AFP/Khaled Desouki)AP - Israel’s attorney general says all of the nearly 700 activists detained in a deadly raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip will be deported by…

Israeli airstrike kills 3 militants in north Gaza (AP)

June 1st, 2010

Hamas security officers patrol on Gaza's seaport, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Palestinians in Gaza declared a general strike and a day of wrath following Israel's deadly naval raid on an aid flotilla bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)AP - An Islamic militant group in the Gaza Strip says three of its members have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza.


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Egypt lifts its side of Gaza blockade for aid (AP)

June 1st, 2010

Two ultra-Orthodox Jews look at Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara off the coast of the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on May 31, 2010 after the Israeli navy raided a flotilla of aid ships bound for Gaza. Israel has detained 480 pro-Palestinian activists captured in its deadly commando raid on the aid flotilla and will expel 48 others, public radio reported Tuesday.(AFP/David Buimovitch)AP - An Egyptian official says the government is temporarily lifting its blockade of the Gaza Strip to allow aid into the area a day after Israel raided an international flotilla…

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