Gaza Aid

Netanyahu: Turkey Was Looking For A Fight With Flotilla

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 05.25.2011

JERUSALEM — Israel threatened Monday to pull out of a U.N. inquiry into a deadly raid on a Turkish flotilla heading for Gaza, after the U.N. chi...

Israel Agrees To Ease Gaza Land Blockade

AP | STEVEN GUTKIN | Posted 05.25.2011

JERUSALEM — An Israeli decision Thursday to ease its blockade of Gaza under intense international pressure could spell the beginning of the end ...

Israel Must Grow Up

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 05.25.2011

Patricia DeGennaro

This time Israel's government has gone too far. The storming of a civilian flotilla carrying 700 humanitarian activists and 10,000 tons of aid, in international waters at night, is reprehensible.

Bibi: Does Your Mother Know You're a Pirate?

Richard Walden | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard Walden

Having provided aid to 99 countries over 31 years, I can say without hesitation that sending aid to the West Bank/Gaza/Palestine is an extremely difficult thing to do.

Gaza, Aid and the New Arab Convoy

Josie Ensor | Posted 05.25.2011

Josie Ensor

British MP George Galloway remembers telling a friend back in 1977 that Israel was a liability, a leech on the blood supply of the US and all countries that support it, and that one day the world would see.

Gaza Aid Boat With Foreign Peace Activists On Board Intercepted By Israeli Navy

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying foreign peace activists trying to break a blockade of Gaza on Tuesday and f...

Gaza Reconstruction Aid Remains Undelivered Despite Billions Promised

Global Post | Matt Beynon Rees | Posted 05.25.2011

Four months on from the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Palestinians have seen little of the money pledged for reconstruction....

Gaza Destruction, Rebuilding: Send Us Your Videos

Talk to US | Posted 05.25.2011

Talk to US

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In Egypt, International Community Pledges To Reconstruct Gaza

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Daoud Kuttab

Sharm el Sheikh, EGYPT -- A resounding and unanimous international message of support was sounded in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh March 2 wit...

Gaza Aid Conference: Donors Discuss Rebuilding Gaza (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011

UPDATE: 1:30pm International donors pledged $5.2 billion in aid for war-torn Gaza at a conference in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, today, reports the AP. ...

Israel Deports Activists From Intercepted Aid Ship

Nytimes.com | ETHAN BRONNER and ISABEL KERSHNER | Posted 05.25.2011

JERUSALEM Israeli officials said on Friday that they had deported most of the activists on a Gaza-bound cargo ship with humanitarian aid intercepted ...

Gaza Faces Dire Humanitarian Situation

Globalsecurity.org | Posted 05.25.2011

GAZA CITY, 29 December 2008 (IRIN) - As a result of a major offensive on 27 December by Israel against Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls Gaza...