Global Politics Online Journal / IPS
Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Jan 19 (IPS) – Humanitarian aid is being rushed into Gaza as Israel and Egypt open their borders temporarily to allow convoys of aid to pass through.
While Israeli drones circle the skies above, Hamas security men are back on the streets attempting to restore some semblance [...]

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Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Jan 18 (IPS) – One Palestinian civilian died and over a dozen rockets hit southern Israel early Sunday morning just hours after Israel implemented a unilateral ceasefire halting its three-week military incursion into Gaza.
The Israeli Air Force (AIF) carried out several bombing attacks on the northern [...]

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Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Jan 18 (IPS) – ”If only my three daughters will be the last victims of this horrible conflict,” wept Dr. Ezzadin Abu Al-Aish, a Palestinian gynaecologist recovering from his wounds in Tel Aviv’s Tel Hashomer hospital. An Israeli tank shell killed [...]

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Daniel Luban
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (IPS) – The three-week-old war in Gaza – halted Saturday by an Israeli ceasefire – has had a polarising effect on the U.S. Jewish community, resulting in a deeper and at times acrimonious split between dovish groups that are sceptical of the Israeli military [...]

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Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 15 (IPS) – Israel’s relentless air attacks on a besieged Gaza, which have killed over 1,000 Palestinians and destroyed hundreds of homes, continue to take place away from the gaze of the international news media.
A country that claims to be the only multi-party democracy [...]

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Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 14 (IPS) – The 192-member U.N. General Assembly, which is due to hold a special emergency meeting Thursday, may call for an international inquiry into the Israeli killing of hundreds of innocent Palestinian men, women and children in Gaza, diplomatic sources told IPS.
”A number [...]

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Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO, Jan 13 (IPS) – A week after the unveiling of a Franco-Egyptian ceasefire proposal aimed at stopping the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian resistance faction Hamas and on the face of it Israel, are still discussing the fine print of an [...]

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Mona Alami
BEIRUT, Jan 9 (IPS) – The eerie calm reigning on the green hills of south Lebanon was broken Thursday by the sound of explosions as three Katyusha rockets were launched into Nahariya and Western Galilee areas in Israel.
Israel fired back, according to local website Now Lebanon, but [...]

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Renu Kshetry
KATHMANDU, Jan 5 (IPS) – Two years after Maoist fighters put aside their arms and agreed to place themselves in United Nations-monitored camps, the issue of integrating them into the regular Nepal army as part of a peace process hangs fire.
The Nepal Army (NA) has resisted integration [...]