guardian.co.uk - 1/2/2009
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Israel says it will allow up to eight people from the foreign media to enter the Gaza Strip when it next opens its Erez crossing to the besieged Palestinian territory for humanitarian purposes. The arrangement, which comes two months after Israel began banning foreign journalists from entering ...
haaretz.com - 1/3/2009
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haaretz.com —
Palestinian witnesses said the artillery barrage caused a
large explosion in Gaza City as well as a
series of blasts stitching the nearby frontier with Israel. Channel 10 television quoted a witness as saying that Israel was shelling targets along the ...
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Israel launches ground offensive in the Gaza ...
prospect.org - 1/1/2009
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prospect.org —
This blog is on a light schedule today
and tomorrow due to various New Years related program
activities, but it's worth quickly responding to Jonathan Chait's post on Israel and Palestine. Chait makes a common claim, which is that all analysis of the ...
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AN OCCUPIED NATION AND A THREATENED ONE.
latimes.com - 1/2/2009
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latimes.com —
It's a new year in an old and
bloody world. In Israel, politicians jockeying for power have
launched the most lethal military assault on Palestinian territory in decades. Israel has justified its bombardment of Gaza on the grounds that Hamas broke a ...
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Israel can't bomb its way to peace - Los Angeles Times
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Israel to allow small number of foreign journalists into Gaza
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... Gaza, could become a permanent restriction on the international media's access. "This was the arrangement agreed upon by Israel's high court and this is the arrangement that will take place from now on," said Major Peter Lerner, a spokesman for the Israeli military's civil administration in the West Bank and Gaza. Asked if foreign journalists would be given unrestricted access in the future, Lerner said: "It doesn't look like it's going to be possible for the time being." Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/02/israel-gaza...
Israel government defies its own high court, no international reporters in Gaza
Corrente —
... One week into Israel's most devastating and deadly military campaign in the Gaza Strip since 1967, Israeli military officals are defying an order from its high court directing the military to let reporters into cover the conflict. ...
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