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UN probe of Gaza flotilla talks to Israeli-Arab MK (AP)

August 31st, 2010 Arab News No comments

Israeli-Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi gestures as she talks to the media in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, after being interviewed by investigators from a U.N. human rights inquiry on the May 31 flotilla attack. Zoabi has told U.N. investigators probing Israel's deadly raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip that its commandos were on a mission to kill. (AP Photo/Nader Daoud)AP – An Israeli-Arab lawmaker said Tuesday she told U.N. investigators probing Israel’s deadly raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip that its commandos were on a mission to kill.

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UN team starts hearings in Jordan on Gaza flotilla

August 30th, 2010 Arab News No comments

A UN inquiry team started hearings Monday with Jordanian activists about the fatal May 31 Israeli attack on a Turkish ship that was part of a flotilla trying to break an Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
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Top Israeli judge defends naval blockade of Gaza (AFP)

August 26th, 2010 Arab News No comments

AFP – Israel’s top military judge said on Thursday the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip is legal, in testimony before an inquiry into a deadly May 31 raid on an activist ship seeking to break it, media reported.

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Gaza power plant reopens after Hamas does deal (AFP)

August 25th, 2010 Arab News No comments

A Palestinian family lights candles at their home during a power cut in Gaza City on August 7. The Gaza Strip's sole power plant resumed generating on Wednesday after the territory's Hamas rulers reached agreement on fuel payments to the rival Palestinian Authority, both sides said.(AFP/File/Mahmud Hams)AFP – The Gaza Strip’s sole power plant resumed generating on Wednesday after the territory’s Hamas rulers reached agreement on fuel payments to the rival Palestinian Authority, both sides said.

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UN criticises Gaza restrictions?

August 20th, 2010 Arab News No comments

A UN report says the Israeli army has increasingly restricted Palestinian access to farmland in the Gaza Strip and fishing zones along its shore.
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Egypt discovers 17 smuggling tunnels to Gaza

August 11th, 2010 Arab News No comments

Egyptian security forces said Wednesday they discovered 17 tunnels used to smuggle construction materials into the Gaza strip, security sources said.
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Turkish protest ship returns home (AP)

August 7th, 2010 Arab News No comments

The Mavi Marmara ship, aboard which Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla took place on May 31, 2010, leaves the Haifa port, northern Israel, on its way to Turkey, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. Israeli commandos trying to prevent pro-Palestinian activists from breaking its blockade of Gaza killed eight Turks and one Turkish-American during the raid on one of the flotilla's six vessels. Israel has said the soldiers acted in self defense after being attacked as they boarded the Mavi Marmara, owned by an Islamic charity. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP – The ship seized by Israel in a deadly raid as it carried aid to the Gaza Strip in May returned to Turkey on Saturday. A pro-Palestinian activist said it would send more aid ships unless Israel lifts its Gaza blockade.

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Israeli shelling kills Gaza militant: medics (Reuters)

August 4th, 2010 Arab News No comments

An Indonesian soldier serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon waves the UN flag at Israeli soldiers across the border to try and calm the situation before the clashes erupted along the tense border. Lebanese and Israeli troops traded fire along their tense border in the fiercest clashes since a 2006 war, with two Lebanese soldiers, a journalist and a senior Israeli officer killed.(AFP/Ali Diya)Reuters – Israeli shellfire killed a Palestinian militant and wounded another in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Palestinian medical officials said.

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Blast in Gaza wounds 24 Palestinians (Reuters)

August 2nd, 2010 Arab News No comments

Reuters – An explosion in the house of a Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip has wounded 24 people, a Hamas official and medical workers in the Palestinian territory said on Monday.
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Blast in Gaza wounds 15 Palestinians (Reuters)

August 1st, 2010 Arab News No comments

Reuters – An explosion in the house of a Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip has wounded 15 people, Hamas and medical workers in the Palestinian territory said Monday.
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