Gaza

NOVANEWS   Speaking to Palestinian news agency Ma’an, Mahmoud Zahar says recognition of Israel would deprive future Palestinian generations of the possibility to ‘liberate’ their lands. Haaretz Hamas would be willing to accept a Palestinian state within 1967 borders, a leader of the militant group, Mahmoud Zahar, told the Palestinian news agency Ma’an on Wednesday, adding, however, that Hamas would never recognize Israel since such a move would counter the group’s aim to “liberate” all of Palestine. Zahar’s comments come amid Palestinian efforts to form a unity government that would include former rivals Fatah and Hamas, following a reconciliation agreement the two factions signed last week in Cairo. Speaking to Ma’an on Wednesday, Zahar, hinting at the possible political line ...

NOVANEWS   Coalition of pro-Palestinian groups announces date after meeting in Paris. Marseille said to be one of various European departure points for convoy AP An aid flotilla will depart for the Gaza Strip in the third week of June, just over a year after a similar flotilla was raided by Israeli forces, leaving nine people dead on a Turkish boat, activists said Monday. A coalition of pro-Palestinian groups, most of them based in Europe, announced the date in a statement after a meeting in Paris. The unfolding plans for the new flotilla set up a possible confrontation with Israel, which has vowed to stop any attempt to breach its sea blockade of Gaza. Turkey: Future Gaza flotilla not up to us Jerusalem files official request with Ankara to stop nearing activists' sail to Strip. ...

NOVANEWS   In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Hamas leader defends his organization’s right to wage an armed struggle against IsraHell. Haaretz Hamas leader Khaled Meshal said Saturday that his movement will make all decisions regarding the struggle against Israel, including if and when to use violence, in coordination with the West Bank leading faction Fatah, The Wall Street Journal reported. Speaking from Cairo, just days after the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation agreement was signed, Meshal said that the best way to achieve their goals was through agreement with the Palestinian Authority lead by President Mahmoud Abbas. Meshal stressed in the interview that “negotiations with Israel, domestic governance, foreign affairs, domestic security and resistance and other field ac...

NOVANEWS Other than the opening of the Rafah crossing, which was probably going to happen anyway, I don't particularly care about the Fateh-Hamas "reconciliation," which will produce nearly nothing of value without a social revolt in the West Bank that can bring down the PA dictatorship. This on the other hand strikes me as far more significant, part of a broad-based movement, based on principles of horizontal solidarity, to bring the Zionist entity to heel. I also didn't know the Brazilian CUT had endorsed BDS. Cool. In commemoration of the International Workers’ Day, the Palestinian trade union movement holds its first BDS conference and announces the formation of the: Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS (PTUC-BDS) Statement of Principles & Call for International Trade U...

NOVANEWS   Ismail Haniyeh calls on militants to give incoming Hamas-Fatah unity government a chance by maintaining the cease-fire deal with IsraHell. Reuters Hamas’s leader in Gaza urged militant groups on Thursday to stick with a de facto truce with Israel announced after a spate of cross-border fire last month, in a bid to give the reconciliation deal with Fatah rivals “a chance.” “I call for giving the coming government a chance by maintaining the cease-fire deal,” Ismail Haniyeh said in a speech, a day after Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement signed a unity pact in Cairo. Haniyeh’s statement follows a day after exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal challenged Israel to peace on Wednesday, offering to work with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and ...

NOVANEWS   According to a UN special report, IsraHell has killed up to 1,300 Palestinian children since the year 2000. At least three Palestinian children have been injured by a piece of unexploded IsraHell ordnance that has gone off in the besieged Gaza Strip. The blast occurred late on Tuesday, a Press TV correspondent reported. One of the victims has reportedly lost two of his fingers and is in serious condition. The incident marks yet another ordeal where the detritus from previous battles and wars continues to harm the most vulnerable members of society. Gaza is currently riddled with plenty of unexploded ordnance, left after Israel’s war on the blockaded coastal enclave at the turn of 2009. IsraHell has killed 1,300 Palestinian children since the year 2000, according...

NOVANEWS     Richard Falk is the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories. The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories says Israel has killed 1,300 Palestinian children since 2000. Richard Falk announced the figure during a press conference in the Jordanian capital city of Amman late on Monday, the Palestinian News Network reported on its website. In his latest report, Falk noted that in 2010 alone, the Israeli army’s gunfire and shelling of the Gaza Strip claimed the lives of 17 children. Israel has not responded to repeated calls by the UN Special Rapporteur for access to the occupied Palestinian territories. Due to the prevailing security situation in Gaza, Falk was forced t...

NOVANEWS No-Fly Zone Over Gaza — Petition from Anthony Lawson on Vimeo.   Petition written by Dr. Mohamed Khodr http://www.petitiononline.com/p181p194/petition-sign.html

NOVANEWS   THE NY DAILY NEWS PUTS THE LIES IN EDITORIALIZE    by Alex Kane* and Nima Shirazi   NOTE: The following piece was co-written by Nima Shirazi and Alex Kane and was originally published onMondoweiss under the headline: “Zuckerman rag prints bald-faced lies on upcoming US flotilla to Gaza.” Nima has added some more of his own observations on the New York Daily News editorial below:   MORT ZUCKERMAN -- NY DAILY NEWS It comes as no surprise that a newspaper owned by Mort Zuckerman, an ardent Zionist, would be anti-Palestinian and that it would strongly oppose efforts to break the Israeli naval blockade by sending a flotilla of ships to Gaza. But a recent editorial printed by the Zuckerman-owned New York Daily News is a particularly egregious example of U.S. media’s aversion to the fa...

NOVANEWS WATCH Israeli Drone War Crime in Gaza - April 8th, 2011 - Ken O'Keefe crescentandcross Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2dGk-1TR watch?v=WlRxopyhUp0&feature=player_embedded