More evidence that Israel's recent assault on Gaza may have had more costs than benefits is that the UK traditional Labourite, that is Labour-right tabloid the Daily Mirror, has this little gem of an article by columnist Brian Reade, headed, Douglas Alexander's Gaza aid pledge typifies Britain's cow...

Regrettably, Ari Folman’s animated doco-fantasy film “Waltz with Bashirâ€� didn’t win the Best Foreign Film at the 2009 Academy Awards presentation in Hollywood. With just a month passing after winning the Golden Globes film award, the American film industry second biggest awards extra...

Eva Bartlett | Electronic Intifada 24 February 2009 Amer al-Helo and his family outside their destroyed home Amer al-Helo smiled wanly while saying he is broken inside. Twenty days after Israeli soldiers shot dead his 55-year-old father and his one-year-old daughter in front of him, also shooting hi...

Eva Bartlett | In Gaza the emergency tent camp named Karama (�Dignity�) set up in the Ezbet Abed Rabbo region, for the 350 families with houses completely destroyed and the 700 families with houses badly damaged. The 55 tents available are obviously insufficient for the number of families, the s...

Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell 8 February 2009 9 year old K is on the right with the blue backpack on her chair Before the strikes, the group 14 Friends of Palestine asked E and me to make contact with a little girl they sponsor via Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children. It’s taken a while for us to cat...

Natalie Abou Shakra | Gaza 08 Wednesday February 4, 2009 Tears drop on her hands, hands that he had once kissed passionately, on her engagement ring, that ring he chose for her, on her cheeks that oust the redness of burning coals within her. The funeral is over now; his body is away, but the memory...

Congress of South African Trade Unions 3rd February 2009 In a historic development for South Africa, South African dock workers have announced their determination not to offload a ship from Israel that is scheduled to dock in Durban on Sunday, 8 February 2009. This follows the decision by COSATU to ...

Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 2 February 2009 Abdul Rahman Ghraben’s mother carried in a yellow plastic bag.  “This is his pant leg, and tiny pieces of him,�  she said, holding the knotted bag at the handles. Her husband had been explaining how fourteen year old Abed was killed on January 11. “Th...

Jack Shenker | The National For over 24 hours earlier this month, a village in southern Gaza was devastated by an Israeli army attack. Jack Shenker revisits a day of destruction. Khoza’a village has a small white-brick mosque, a smattering of donkey carts and a rusting water tower. It has neat row...

Israeli armed forces opened fire on a group of Human Rights Workers (HRWs) and civilians in the Beit Hannoun area of the Gaza Strip on Thursday 29th January. International HRWs were accompanying residents of Beit Hannoun, in the far north of the Gaza Strip, to their homes, in order to salvage belong...