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Israel blockade of Gaza legal, UN review says
The UN investigation into the events on the Turkish-flagged ship known as the Mavi Marmara, the largest of six vessels that were commandeered by Israeli commandos on May 31, 2010, was headed by Sir Geoffrey Palmer, former prime minister of New Zealand, aided by Alvaro Uribe, former president of Colombia, along with a representative each from Israel and Turkey.
It takes a broadly sympathetic view of Israel’s sea blockade of Gaza.
“Israel faces a real threat to its security from militant groups in Gaza,’’ the report says in its opening paragraphs. “The naval blockade was imposed as a legitimate security measure in order to prevent weapons from entering Gaza by sea and its implementation complied with the requirements of international law.’’
It's a legal blockade.
Israel blockade of Gaza legal, UN review says
The UN investigation into the events on the Turkish-flagged ship known as the Mavi Marmara, the largest of six vessels that were commandeered by Israeli commandos on May 31, 2010, was headed by Sir Geoffrey Palmer, former prime minister of New Zealand, aided by Alvaro Uribe, former president of Colombia, along with a representative each from Israel and Turkey.
It takes a broadly sympathetic view of Israels sea blockade of Gaza.
Israel faces a real threat to its security from militant groups in Gaza, the report says in its opening paragraphs. The naval blockade was imposed as a legitimate security measure in order to prevent weapons from entering Gaza by sea and its implementation complied with the requirements of international law.
Israel blockade of Gaza legal, UN review says - Boston.com
The very idea of a "total and merciless" blockade of Gaza constitutes disinformation. We mustn't tire of reminding others the blockade concerns only arms and the material necessary to manufacture them. It does not prevent the daily arrival, via Israel, of between a hundred and a hundred and twenty trucks laden with food, medical supplies, and humanitarian goods of every kind.
Humanity is not in danger in Gaza, and it is a lie to state that people are "dying of hunger" in the streets of Gaza.
Now that the Israelis have carried out their inspection and mean to take the cargo of aid to those for whom it is supposedly intended, Hamas's attitude in blocking that aid at Kerem Shalom, allowing it to slowly rot, is met with silence. To hell with any merchandise that has passed through the hands of Jewish customs! Chuck out the "toys" that brought tears to the eyes of good European souls but became impure because they spent too many hours in the Israeli port of Ashdod! Gaza's children having been nothing more than a human shield for the Islamist gang who took power by force three years ago.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Why I Defend Israel
It is not a siege on food.
It is a siege on freedom.
Only propagandists yak about food.
Gaza's militant Hamas rulers have banned eight teenage students with scholarships to study in the U.S. from leaving the territory, a Palestinian rights group said Wednesday.
The move appeared to be part of an intensified Hamas campaign against independent groups that they view as a challenge to their rule and against activities that believe promote a Western lifestyle.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said the eight students were granted AMIDEAST scholarships, a program that educates talented teenagers from the Middle East and North Africa for a year in the U.S. At the end of the year, students return to their home countries to finish their education. The students were granted scholarships based on their academic achievements.
In a statement, the rights group said Hamas' education minister rejected a travel request by the teenager's parents for "social and cultural reasons." It also accused Hamas of breaching the parents' right to educate their children as they choose.
Hamas would not confirm the order, much as it has in the past with similar orders travel bans on Gaza residents.
But the parents of 15-year-old Aboud Alshatari said their son was traveling to the border Wednesday when Hamas police turned him away, saying the Education Ministry refused to let him leave Gaza. Alshatari was slated to attend school in North Carolina.
The ban comes a day after a network of aid groups in Gaza criticized Hamas for forcing aid workers and employees of civil society groups to register with them before traveling for work outside the Gaza Strip. And last week, Hamas shut down the U.S.-financed International Medical Corps after it refused to submit to a Hamas audit.
The Iranian-backed Hamas overran Gaza from the secular Palestinian Fatah party in bloody street battles in 2007. Since then, Hamas has slowly imposed its radical interpretation of Islam on residents of the Gaza Strip a world view that is even more stern than what traditionally religious conservative Gazan's follow.
Other Hamas crackdowns include trying to ban male barbers from cutting women's hair and forbidding women from smoking in public and outlawing scantly clad female mannequins.
Hamas Bans Gaza Students Studying Abroad - ABC News
Ever since it seized control over the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2007, Hamas has...
Ever since it seized control over the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2007, Hamas has...
In the summer of 2007 Hamas was the elected government in office.
Seized control???
Your source is all wet.
Ever since it seized control over the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2007, Hamas has...
In the summer of 2007 Hamas was the elected government in office.
Seized control???
Your source is all wet.
Gaza Strip banks close in protest of Hamas cash seizure
Move follows Hamas seizure of $250,000 in cash; West Bank official for the Palestinian Monetary Authority says Hamas police committed 'armed robbery.'
Gaza Strip banks close in protest of Hamas cash seizure - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007 in a brief civil war with forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
In the summer of 2007 Hamas was the elected government in office.
Seized control???
Your source is all wet.
Gaza Strip banks close in protest of Hamas cash seizure
Move follows Hamas seizure of $250,000 in cash; West Bank official for the Palestinian Monetary Authority says Hamas police committed 'armed robbery.'
Gaza Strip banks close in protest of Hamas cash seizure - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Those funds were supposed to be dispersed but were held up by the illegal government in the West Bank for political reasons.
Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007 in a brief civil war with forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Why did Abbas have forces in Gaza? Security forces should be under the minister of the interior not the president.
The women were celebrating the 46th anniversary of Fatah's first terror attack.
The women were celebrating the 46th anniversary of Fatah's first terror attack.
Terror attack is not a term that is used by Palestinians.
It is an Israel name calling thing.
The women were celebrating the 46th anniversary of Fatah's first terror attack.
Terror attack is not a term that is used by Palestinians.
It is an Israel name calling thing.
The women were celebrating the 46th anniversary of Fatah's first terror attack.
Terror attack is not a term that is used by Palestinians.
It is an Israel name calling thing.
Hamas tries to detain woman walking with man | World news | The Guardian
Terror attack is not a term that is used by Palestinians.
It is an Israel name calling thing.
Hamas tries to detain woman walking with man | World news | The Guardian
Do you have something more recent than two years old. If that is the most recent incident it was probably a rogue cop and not policy.
The women were celebrating the 46th anniversary of Fatah's first terror attack.
Terror attack is not a term that is used by Palestinians.
It is an Israel name calling thing.
US State Department: Terrorist Designation of HAMAS Operative Muhammad Hisham Muhammad Isma'il Abu Ghazala
The State Department has designated Muhammad Hisham Muhammad Ismail Abu Ghazala under E.O. 13224, which targets terrorists and those providing support to terrorists or acts of terrorism. This action will help stem the flow of finances to Abu Ghazala by prohibiting U.S. persons from engaging in transactions with him and freezing any assets he may have under U.S. jurisdiction.
Designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization since 1997, HAMAS has carried out attacks such as suicide bombings, rocket launches, improvised explosive device attacks, and shootings against civilian targets inside Israel
Terrorist Designation of HAMAS Operative Muhammad Hisham Muhammad Isma'il Abu Ghazala
It is an Israel name calling thing.