Blog posts tagged "Gaza"

May 4, 2011 6:51 pm 2 Comments

Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller on the signing of a deal between former rivals Hamas and Fatah to bring in a joint caretaker government for Palestine.

January 24, 2011 12:48 pm 7 Comments

International Editor Lindsey Hilsum look at the leaked papers documenting the Palestine/Israel peace talks and asks, what's next?

September 2, 2010 12:36 pm 2 Comments

Success looks tricky at the Middle East peace talks because of the unprecedented weakness of the negotiating position of Palestinian Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas, writes Lindsey Hilsum.

June 8, 2010 11:27 am 1 Comment

Lindsey Hilsum blogs on Turkey's strategy towards Israel and Hamas following last week's killing of nine activists during the storming of an aid flotilla.

June 7, 2010 2:54 pm 3 Comments

If you’ve just been in Gaza, as I have, it’s quite hard to watch the spoof video made by a group of Israelis called Latma (it means “slap” in Hebrew slang) and distributed by the Israeli government press office, which has been posted on YouTube. The government has apologised now, but the damage is done. In [...]

June 6, 2010 8:54 am 2 Comments

Somewhere in Gaza, someone may once have tried to fashion a missile from a chicken hatchery, a goat, a bunch of coriander and a fishing rod stuck together with jam. I say this because Israel does not allow these items across its Kerem Shalom border post into the Gaza Strip, in the interests of protecting [...]

June 1, 2010 6:58 pm 24 Comments

The interests of the United States and Israel are no longer indistinguishable, as US reaction to Israel's attack on the Gaza flotilla illustrates, blogs Lindsey Hilsum.

February 24, 2009 4:10 pm 4 Comments

I read an account in The Observer on Sunday by my Newsnight colleague Mark Urban who set out in pursuit of his great-uncle’s war grave in Gaza. (He’s got a piece on this on his programme tonight, but I don’t know how my editor will take to me flagging this up.) The reason this particularly [...]

February 9, 2009 10:52 am 2 Comments

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February 6, 2009 6:05 am 3 Comments

The Israeli government has now picked up on the story of what they’re calling “the school” in Gaza (which I wrote about yesterday). It concerns the UN’s apparent “reversal” of its position over an incident during the war in which 43 people died. The Israeli prime minister’s spokesman, Mark Regev, this morning drew attention to [...]