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Israel report blames flawed planning for Gaza raid (AP)

July 12th, 2010 | Author: admin

Retired Israeli Gen. Giora Eiland speaks to reporters at Israel's Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, July 12, 2010. Eiland headed an internal military investigation committee that concluded Monday that flawed intelligence gathering and planning led to the deadly botched raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla on May 31. However, it praised the commandos who took part in the operation, saying they were justified in opening fire and killing nine after being confronted by violent pro-Palestinian activists on board one of the ships.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP – Flawed intelligence-gathering and planning led to Israel’s botched and deadly raid on a Gaza-bound protest flotilla, with security forces underestimating the potential for violence, said the official report released Monday.


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Abbas: No point in direct talks with Israel now (AP)

July 11th, 2010 | Author: admin

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a religious ceremony in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, July 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)AP – The Palestinian president says direct talks with Israel would be futile under current circumstances.


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Israel eases Gaza closure, but restrictions remain (AP)

July 5th, 2010 | Author: admin

A Palestinian man shops at a store selling home appliances in a market in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 1, 2010. Israel is still deciding exactly what it will and will not allow into Gaza under a new approach towards the enclave, which it has blockaded for four years. As it changes the policy, some previously banned goods have started to flow across the border. As yet, there is no sign of the basic materials and machine parts which aid workers and businessmen say Gaza needs if the homeless are to be rehoused and the economy is to be revived to alleviate growing poverty attributed to the blockade.<br /> To match feature PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL/GAZA-BLOCKADE<br /> REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS SOCIETY)AP – Israel is easing its blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza to allow in virtually all consumer goods, items from household cleaners to timber that had been barred from import for years.


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Israel to allow most goods into Gaza (AP)

July 5th, 2010 | Author: admin

Noam Schalit, father of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit reacts during a march in support of the release of his son, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, July 5, 2010. The family of the captured Israeli soldier initiated a 12-day march from Schalit's home to Jerusalem to press Israeli leaders to make a deal with his Hamas captors to free him. Schalit was taken captive four years ago during a cross-border raid by militants from the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP – Israel on Monday dropped its long-standing restrictions on allowing consumer goods into the Gaza Strip but retained limits on desperately needed construction materials, redefining the rules of its heavily criticized Gaza embargo on the eve of the Israeli prime minister’s trip to the White House.


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Israel redefines rules of its Gaza blockade (AP)

July 5th, 2010 | Author: admin

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office, Sunday, July 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Hollander, Pool)AP – Israel on Monday dropped its long-standing restrictions on allowing consumer goods into the Gaza Strip but retained tight limits on desperately needed construction materials, redefining the rules of its heavily criticized Gaza embargo on the eve of the Israeli prime minister’s trip to the White House.


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Chavez: Israel and US ‘empire’ are enemies (AP)

June 27th, 2010 | Author: admin

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, right, shakes hand with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during a welcoming ceremony at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Saturday, June 26, 2010. Bashar al-Assad is in Venezuela for a two-day official visit. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)AP – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced Israel as a “genocidal” government on Sunday as he hosted Syrian President Bashar Assad on his first visit to Latin America.


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EU presses Israel to lift Gaza blockade (AP)

June 14th, 2010 | Author: admin

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu smiles during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Monday, June 14, 2010. Israel's Cabinet has approved an inquiry commission into its bloody attack on a Gaza-bound flotilla two weeks ago. The Cabinet convened Monday and okayed the independent public commission headed by a retired Israeli judge and including two high-ranking foreign observers. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, Pool)AP – The European Union pressed Israel Monday to lift the blockade of Gaza, deeming it “unacceptable” while the Israeli Cabinet approved an investigation into the deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in an effort to counter international criticism.


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