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Deadly Gaza rocket, air strikes cloud peace talks (AFP)

March 19th, 2010 Arab News No comments

Israeli soldiers guard the site where a rocket launched from the nearby Gaza Strip landed in the southern Israeli Netiv Haasara Kibbutz. International talks on the Middle East set for Friday took on new urgency after Israeli warplanes targeted the Gaza Strip in response to a fatal rocket attack(AFP/David Buimovitch)AFP – International talks on the Middle East set for Friday took on new urgency after Israeli warplanes targeted the Gaza Strip in response to a fatal rocket attack.

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Israeli medics: Man killed by Gaza rocket (AP)

March 18th, 2010 Arab News No comments

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, right, talks with Israeli President Shimon Peres during their meeting in Jerusalem, Thursday, March 18, 2010. Ashton is on an official visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)AP – Palestinian militants fired a rocket at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing a Thai farm worker, Israeli medics said, in the first death from a rocket attack since Israel’s Gaza offensive last year.

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Rocket kills 1 in Israel while EU top diplomat in Gaza (Reuters)

March 18th, 2010 Arab News No comments

European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (C) visits the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip March 18, 2010. Ashton crossed the Erez border crossing from Israel into the Gaza Strip for a one-day visit. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS)Reuters – Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing a Thai agricultural worker, while the European Union’s foreign affairs chief was visiting the Hamas-controlled enclave.

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EU’s foreign chief in Gaza visit

March 18th, 2010 Arab News No comments

The EU’s foreign policy chief arrives in the Gaza Strip as militants there fire a rocket into Israel, killing one person.
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Rocket fire from Gaza kills man

March 18th, 2010 Arab News No comments

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel kills a man, the first fatal rocket attack since Israel’s campaign last year.
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UN rights chief says Gaza war probes inadequate (AP)

March 17th, 2010 Arab News No comments

AP – The U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights’ has criticized Israeli and Palestinian authorities for failing to properly investigate alleged war crimes last year in the Gaza Strip.
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EU’s Ashton wants to visit Gaza amid push for peace talks (AFP)

March 6th, 2010 Arab News No comments

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton gives a press conference at the EU Headquarters in Brussels, February 2010. European foreign ministers welcomed the support of Arab nations for indirect talks to begin between Israel and the Palestinians, as the EU's top envoy said she hoped to visit the Gaza Strip.(AFP/File/John Thys)AFP – EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said Saturday she hopes to get into the Palestinian Gaza Strip during a Middle East trip this month, as Europe pushes for renewed peace talks.

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Irish minister slams ‘inhumane’ Gaza conditions, hopeful of talks (AFP)

March 5th, 2010 Arab News No comments

AFP – Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin on Friday slammed the “inhumane… siege” of the Gaza Strip, following a visit last week, but voiced optimism that indirect peace talks may begin.

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Under blockade, coastal Gaza now a fish importer (AP)

March 2nd, 2010 Arab News No comments

In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, Palestinian Hamas security officers check boxes of fish, bought from Egyptian fishermen, after they were unloaded from a boat on the beach of the Mediterranean Sea near the Egyptian border in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Gaza's desperate fishermen, hemmed in by an Israeli sea blockade, have found new ways of hauling in their daily catch: They're sneaking into Egyptian waters in tiny motorboats and buying fish from their Egyptian counterparts. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)AP – Under a sea blockade, the coastal Gaza Strip has now become a seafood importer. Its desperate fishermen — cut off from plentiful fishing grounds by Israeli patrol boats — have turned to sneaking into Egyptian waters in tiny motorboats to buy their catch and bring it home.

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Clinton presses Barak on blockade of Gaza Strip (Reuters)

February 27th, 2010 Arab News No comments

Reuters – The United States pressed Israel on Friday to ease its blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, an issue Arab officials have urged Washington to address at it tries to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
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