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Blockaded Gaza ‘Faces Disaster’

Nov 14, 2008
It's been only about a week since Israel closed the border into the Gaza Strip, denying the occupied territory humanitarian supplies and fuel and even blocking journalists, but the UK-based aid group Oxfam is already warning that Gaza "faces disaster" if the blockade is not immediately broken.

Some Things Never Change

Nov 5, 2008
While many in the world are looking forward to change, an Israeli airstrike proved that some things never will. After a four-month cease-fire between Israeli and Palestinian fighters, Israel launched an attack into the Gaza Strip Tuesday evening, killing six in an allegedly pre-emptive strike.
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