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Human rights Palestine

Gaza today – 20 died in this blast say medics

This photo from AFP sums up what is happening in Gaza and the lawless and murderous nature of the latest Israeli assault on Gaza.

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Israel Palestine

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister: We must blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages.

The following is from Haaretz’s live blog: 7:55 P.M. Interior Minister Eli Yishai on Israel’s operation in Gaza: “The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages. Only then will Israel be calm for forty years.”

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Palestine

Gaza: Toll of Palestinian children killed as a result of Israel military and settler occupation rises

Jihad Misharawi, of BBC Arabic, cradling the body of his 11-month-old baby Omar after his house was struck in Israel’s air strike on Wednesday 14 November 2012:

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Barack Obama Palestine

Will Obama veto ‘the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for a state of their own?’

President Barack Hussein Obama made a speech in Cairo in June 2009, which was widely hailed as marking a new beginning; as the great speech of a true humanitarian and worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize. Here are some key passages from that profound, deep and moving speech, which gave hope to the people of […]