Middle East
Boy killed in West Bank protest
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 19:00.
BBC July 29, 2008
Israeli troops have shot dead a 12-year-old Palestinian boy during a protest against Israel's barrier in the occupied West Bank, medics say.
The Israeli military said it was investigating what had happened.
It happened at Nilin village, west of Ramallah, where peace activists say Israel is taking 25 hectares of land from villagers to build the barrier. read more »
Five wounded in Yemen protest
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 21:50.
SANAA (AFP) — Five people, including a young boy, were wounded in southern Yemen on Tuesday when police fired on demonstrators demanding the release of more than 80 people arrested during previous protests, witnesses said.
Dozens of demonstrators were also detained during the new protest, in Radfan in southern Lahij province, the witnesses told AFP.
Police fired live bullets and tear gas to disperse the march, they said. read more »
Israeli troops disperse wall protest, wounding 12
Submitted by pirate on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 19:02.
June 26, 2008
NILIN, West Bank (AFP) - Twelve Palestinians were wounded on Thursday when Israeli troops dispersed a protest against the separation wall in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian medics said. read more »
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,102
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 06/23/2008 - 07:01.By The Associated Press Sun Jun 22, 2008
As of Sunday, June 22, 2008, at least 4,102 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. read more »
Hundreds Protest At Israeli Wall Near West Bank Village
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 06/02/2008 - 06:46.June 1, 2008
NILIN, West Bank (AFP)--Hundreds of Palestinians, Israelis, and international activists gathered outside the occupied West Bank village of Nilin on Sunday to protest against the extension of Israel's separation wall.
At least three people were wounded by rubber bullets and another eight were treated for tear gas inhalation when Israeli troops dispersed the protest, the organisers said.
The villagers say they mobilized last month when the Israeli army told them it would confiscate some 2,500 dunams (620 acres) of land for the separation wall, which Israel insists is necessary to prevent attacks from the territory. read more »
Israeli troops fire on Gaza protest
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 20:33.
TEL AVIV, Israel, May 30 (UPI) -- Six Palestinians have been injured by fire from Israeli Defense Forces trying to stop a Hamas-organized protest near a Gaza border crossing, Palestinians said.
The incident took place as thousands of demonstrators approached in protest of the siege Israel has imposed on Gaza. Palestinians report that six were injured by live gunfire.
The IDF said soldiers used tear gas and fired warning shots against the Palestinian protesters in order to prevent them from crossing into Israel through the border fence., reported YNET news. read more »
"Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran"
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 15:08."Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran" McCain's Chant Becomes Closer to Fruition Thomas Riggins I remember a few months back seeing McCain on TV doing this little chant for his fellow moral defectives at a rally. Our intelligence agencies seemingly put the kibosh on this when they announced it looked like Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program, if it ever had one, several years ago. Then the International Atomic Energy Agency said they had no evidence of an arms program and that Iran was cooperating. Israel continued to insist the Iranians were trying to make the bomb and so did the Bushites here at home. The fact there is no evidence of the bomb is itself evidence of the bomb and the cleverness of the deceitful Iranians. So goes the logic of imperialism. read more »
The Rich Are Finally Trying To Give....!
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 05/24/2008 - 09:45.Saudi Arabia gives 500 million dollars to world food appeal
AFP
Published: Friday May 23, 2008
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Saudi Arabia has donated half a billion dollars (317 million euros) to a UN World Food Programme appeal to battle the global food price crisis, helping it reach a 755 million dollar goal, the WFP said Friday.
"The World Food Programme has met its extraordinary call for 755 million dollars to compensate for the increased costs of food and fuel with a 500 million dollar donation from The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," said a statement. read more »
BLACKWATER MAKES COMEBACK
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 05/11/2008 - 14:08.BLACKWATER MAKES COMEBACK
More tax money for Murder Inc.
Thomas Riggins
This news, as reported on the front page of the NYT for 5-10-08, should not be a big surprise. This one article encapsulates the whole insanity of Bush's adventure in Iraq. It also exposes the sharade of a "sovereign" Iraqi government. We all know about the infamous Blackwater mercenaries, hired killers used by the US government to protect the State Department workers and others in Iraqi and to also spread death and terror to Iraqis who get in their way. If any group should be on the government's list of terrorist organizations it is Blackwater, Inc. read more »
Anti-government protesters block roads in Beirut
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 06:17.By Nadim Ladki May 6, 2008
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Demonstrators blocked several roads in and around Beirut with burning tires on Wednesday as part of an anti-government protest backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah-led opposition, witnesses said.
The main road leading to the capital's international airport was among routes blocked by the protesters. read more »
AP photographer freed by US military after 2 years
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 18:23.
By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press April 16, 2008
BAGHDAD - Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein embraced sobbing relatives and thanked colleagues after being released Wednesday from more than two years in U.S. read more »
Anti-riot police attack Iran tyre workers Over 50 arrested, scores injured
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 18:20.Tehran – April 13, 2008 kargaran.org
Around 7.30pm last night, anti-riot police smashed the gates and climbed over the walls of Kian Tyre factory, in the outskirts of Tehran, to forcefully evict hundreds of striking workers. Scores were beaten up and arrested, with some needing hospital treatment. read more »
Day of angry protest stuns Egypt
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:18.
By Michael Slackman April 6, 2008 International Herald Tribune
CAIRO The center of this normally bustling, overcrowded, traffic-clogged city was largely quiet Sunday, the roads nearly empty, many of the stores shuttered, as the riot police came out in force to prevent a general strike aimed at signaling widespread discontent with President Hosni Mubarak and his government.
Egypt has virtually no organized political opposition, except the Muslim Brotherhood, which is banned and barred from politics. read more »
Thousands of Yemenis protest soaring prices, corruption
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 10:20.
Thu Mar 27, 2008
SANAA (AFP) - Thousands of Yemenis gathered on Thursday to protest at rising prices, accusing the government of failing to curb the increasing cost of living and corruption, an AFP correspondent reported.Answering a call by the Common Forum, which includes five main opposition parties, over 10,000 protestors took to the streets of Sanaa chanting slogans denouncing the government. read more »
US death toll in Iraq war hits 4,000
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 05:15.
By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press March 23, 2008
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five-year war to at least 4,000. The grim milestone came on a day when at least 61 people were killed across the country.
Rockets and mortars pounded the U.S.-protected Green Zone, underscoring the fragile security situation and the resilience of both Sunni and Shiite extremist groups despite an overall lull in violence. read more »
Turkish police and Kurds clash
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 02:23. 
By C. ONUR ANT, Associated Press Mar 22, 2008
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Kurdish protesters chanting support for separatist guerrillas clashed with police in eastern Turkey on Saturday during a spring festival. Dozens were injured. read more »
Remembering Rachel Corrie, 2008
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 20:58. 5th Anniversary of Rachel Corrie's Death
March 15, 2008
Workers stage violent wage protest in UAE
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 20:47.
March 18, 2008
DUBAI (AFP) - Around 1,500 workers in the United Arab Emirates staged a violent protest for higher wages on Tuesday, setting dozens of vehicles on fire and damaging property, police said. read more »
Iraqis still ask if U.S. invasion was worth it
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 05:50.
By Dean Yates Mon Mar 10, 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five years after U.S. and British forces swept into Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein, many Iraqis are asking if the violence and upheaval that turned their lives upside down was worth it.
The human cost is staggering -- anywhere between 90,000 and 1 million Iraqi civilians killed, according to various estimates; nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers dead; while 4 million Iraqis are displaced. read more »
Iraqi Women Quietly Endure Horrors of War
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 03/08/2008 - 17:57.By Cyril Mychalejko
March 8 marks the 99th celebration of International Women's Day, a day to commemorate the political, social, and economic struggles and achievements of women globally.
This year we should use the holiday to observe and reflect on the suffering of Iraqi women, who have become invisible "collateral damage" in our country's war in this now defenseless Middle Eastern nation. A good place to start would be by picking up and reading Haifa Zangana's book, "City of Windows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance." Zangana is an Iraqi woman, journalist and activist, who was also a former prisoner of Saddam Hussein's regime. She dedicated her book to A'beer Quassim Hamza al-Janaby. read more »
Israeli strikes kill 54 in Gaza
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 03/01/2008 - 10:46.
By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press March 1, 2008
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli troops turned heavy firepower on rocket squads bombarding southern Israel Saturday, killing 54 Palestinians in the deadliest day in Gaza since the current round of fighting erupted in 2000.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed and seven were wounded in the clashes, the military said. read more »
Four injured in the weekly Bil'in nonviolent protest
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 20:24.
February 29, 2008 International Middle East Media Center
The villagers of Bil'in, along with international and Israeli supporters, conducted their weekly protest against the illegal Israeli wall being built on village land.Israeli troops attacked protesters injuring four. Bil'in village, located near Ramallah held its weekly protest, as it has for the last three years. read more »
Gazans form 'human chain' to protest Israeli blockade
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 22:54.Mon Feb 25, 2008
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Thousands of Palestinian schoolchildren began forming a human chain the length of the impoverished territory on Monday morning to protest a crushing Israeli blockade, an AFP correspondent witnessed. read more »
PKK says it shot down Turkish helicopter
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 10:39.
Feb. 24, 2008
CUKURCA, Turkey (AP)- Kurdish rebels claimed they shot down a Turkish military helicopter during fighting in northern Iraq, a pro-Kurdish news agency reported, but there was no confirmation from the Turkish military. read more »
BREAKING ISLAMIC STEREOTYPES
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 02/08/2008 - 16:36.THE FATWAS OF GRAND AYATOLLAH MOHAMMED HUSSEIN FADLALLAH
Thomas Riggins
The LA Times had an interesting article in its 2-06-08 issue by Borzou Daraghai (“Lebanon Cleric Advises ‘Modern Shiites’”). It’s a good tonic against the rising tide of Islamophobia engulfing the West in general and the US in particular. Just think of the hysterical reactions we have read about when a Muslim was elected to Congress and a high school dedicated to Arabic studies and language was opened in New York City. read more »
Israeli Restaurant Workers Strike for Union Rights at Coffee Bean
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 08:11.Tuesday, January 29 2008 Infoshop News 
Israel's national labour center Histradut is giving full support to workers at Tel Aviv's Ibn Gvirol street branch of the international coffee roaster and restaurant franchiser Coffee Bean, where workers have been on strike since January 22 against a union-busting management. Coffee Bean, originally a US-only roasting and coffeehouse chain, now operates over 500 outlets (270 direct owned) in 15 countries in the USA, Middle East, Asia, and Australia. None of the 14 Israeli establishments are currently union organized. read more »
Protests in Lebanon leave 7 dead
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 01/28/2008 - 00:16.
By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Jan 27, 2008
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Protesters angry about electricity rationing clashed with Lebanese troops Sunday in Beirut's worst riots in a year, leaving seven people dead, hospital and security read more »
Reports: Thousands cross Gaza wall
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 01/23/2008 - 06:49.
By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Jan. 22, 2008
RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Masked gunmen blew holes in the wall separating the Gaza Strip from Egypt early Wednesday and thousands of Palestinians poured across the border to buy supplies made scarce by an Israeli blockade of the impoverished territory. read more »
SON OF TONKIN
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/11/2008 - 14:23.Thomas Riggins
Here is all we need to know about the latest fabricated "incident" from the Persian Gulf. If you remember the Tonkin Bay "incident" you may want to sing a few lines of when will they ever learn.
The New York Times reported yesterday that the film we all saw on TV of the Iranian speed boats "confronting" the US Navy and threatening to "blow you up" was fake. That is the Navy and the Pentagon admitted "that the video and audio were recorded separately and then combined." That means all the major media broadcast a fake film. read more »
Arab, Jewish women protest occupation
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 12/29/2007 - 16:50.
Fri Dec 28, 2007
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Hundreds of Jewish and Arab women staged a protest in Jerusalem on Friday against Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, witnesses said. read more »
Israeli tanks, bulldozers move into Gaza
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 20:08.
By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Writer Dec. 11, 2007
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip - Israeli tanks and bulldozers backed by attack aircraft moved into the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing five militants in the widest operation in the territory since Islamic Hamas forces wrested control in June. Another died in an airstrike in northern Gaza. read more »
BUSH CONTINUES TO HYPE NONEXISTENT IRANIAN NUCLEAR THREAT
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 12/06/2007 - 02:48.Thomas Riggins
The New York Times headlines today show that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. "Bush Insists Iran Remains a Threat Despite Arms Data."
What has he learned from his own intelligence agencies (16 of them!) after they told him the best intelligence they have is that Iran abandoned a bomb program four years ago [if they had one in the first place].
The Times reports that by not having a bomb program Bush thinks "the new assessment underscored the need to intensify international efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon." Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. read more »
US plans case against AP photographer
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 21:46. By BRIAN MURPHY, Associated Press Nov. 19, 2007
NEW YORK - The U.S. military plans to seek a criminal case in an Iraqi court against an award-winning Associated Press photographer but is refusing to disclose what evidence or accusations would be presented.An AP attorney on Monday strongly protested the decision, calling the U.S. military plans a "sham of due process." The journalist, Bilal Hussein, has already been imprisoned without charges for more than 19 months. read more »
Guard kills unarmed Iraqi taxi driver
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 22:41.By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Nov. 12, 2007
BAGHDAD - A private security guard fatally shot an Iraqi taxi driver, Iraqi officials said Monday, in the latest incident involving what Iraqis believe are unprovoked killings by contractors hired to protect Americans.
A spokesman for DynCorps International, a Falls Church, Va.-based company, said one of its security teams opened fire Saturday to disable a vehicle in Baghdad after it approached a convoy in a threatening manner."Our team had reported that they believed no one was injured. So although there were conflicting reports, we are trying to determine if the incidents are one and the same," said Gregory Lagana, DynCorp's senior vice president for communications. read more »
Deadliest year for US troops in Iraq
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 11/06/2007 - 22:02.
By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Nov. 6, 2007 read more »
Kurd killed in north Syria protest, mood tense
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 11/04/2007 - 21:00.By Khaled Yacoub Oweis Sat Nov 3, 2007
DAMASUCUS (Reuters) - Security forces killed a Kurdish youth and wounded four other people in northeastern Syria while breaking up a protest against a possible Turkish incursion into Iraqi Kurdistan, witnesses and Kurdish activists said on Sunday. read more »
TURKEY AND THE PKK
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 14:30.Thomas Riggins
Some reflections on the current Turkey/PKK standoff in Northern Iraq. If Turkey wants to end PKK attacks it might try, as a first measure, extending full citizen and human rights to the Kurdish population of Turkey. The Kurds are not allowed to freely use their language. A people's culture and traditions can not be preserved and respected if the state persecutes them with regard to the use of their national language.
Turkey should end efforts at forced assimilation of Kurdish children to "Turkishness" and other efforts at cultural genocide. Turkey should also end policies of violent repression of peaceful manifestations of Kurdish nationalism. read more »
Students in Iran Protest Sentences for 3 Activists
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 22:09.TEHRAN, Oct. 22 — Students at one of the most politically active universities in Tehran demonstrated Monday amid high security to protest jail terms for three student activists, an Iranian student news agency reported.
Students from different universities gathered at Amir Kabir University to protest sentences of up to three years issued last week for the activists, Ehsan Mansouri, Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad Ghassaban, the student news agency, ISNA, reported.
Authorities accused the three, all from Amir Kabir University, of publishing articles insulting to Islam in student publications. The students denied the charges and said their publications had been forged to frame them. read more »
SEYMOUR HERSH ON BUSH’S PLAN FOR IRAN
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/09/2007 - 23:54.by Thomas Riggins
Seymour Hersh is back with another New Yorker article (“Shifting Targets: The Administration’s plan for Iran,” issue of October 8, 2007). It seems that the Iran plan has changed a bit since his last article, six or seven months ago,appeared.[An article about it is in the blog archives] Hersh isn’t sure that Iran will be attacked, but there is certainly a hugh military build up taking place. Since there is no real evidence that Iran is making the Bomb, the new rationale for attack is that Iran is attacking us! read more »
THE FISHERS OF MEN: OFFICERS VS PSYCHOPATHS
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 21:43.by Thomas Riggins
One of the best arguments for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq can be based on our own self-interests. The fact that we are murdering and killing Iraqis and destroying their country and culture does not seem to impress the political class in the US. Only a few Congress people even seem to be aware of it. The way the Senate stumbled over itself in defending Gen. Betrayus is a case in point. read more »
Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
Submitted by rick on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 06:13.I found this on Project Censored's website. It's over two years old but seems timely and still underreported:
Global Research.ca, August 5, 2005
Title: “Halliburton Secretly Doing Business With Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team”
Author: Jason Leopold
Faculty Evaluator: Catherine Nelson
Student Researchers: Kristine Medeiros and Pla Herr read more »
11 Palestinians killed in Gaza fighting
Submitted by pirate on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 20:35. 
By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Sep 27, 2007
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli forces killed two Gaza militants in a missile strike early Thursday, bringing the two-day death toll in Gaza fighting to 11, hospital officials said. read more »
Hamas women's protest in West Bank blocked
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 09/23/2007 - 21:05.RAMALLAH (AFP) - Palestinian police blocked a West Bank protest march on Saturday by some 200 women supporters of Hamas angry at the detention of scores of Islamists since the movement's June takeover of Gaza. read more »
George Packer's "Planning for Defeat": An Analysis of a Plea for Occupation
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/19/2007 - 16:05.George Packer's "Planning for Defeat": An Analysis of a Plea for Occupation
By Thomas Riggins
The journalist George Packer has an article ("Planning for Defeat") about the situation in Iraq in the September 17, 2007 issue of The New Yorker. It is very informative, but unfortunately, veers from reportage into advocacy, and not just any advocacy, but advocacy of placing Iraq under semi-permanent military occupation by the US-- in fact making it an economic colony of American capitalism.
Additional information:
8 million Iraqis require emergency aid
About one-fourth of Iraqi children are malnourished
5 million Iraqis depend on the country's food rationing system; only 3 million have reliable access to it
3 to 4 million Iraqis are internally or internationally displaced read more »
My Participation in Green Party Delegation to Sen. Patty Murray's Office
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 09/18/2007 - 20:15.On Wednesday, September 12, I was fortunate to be a part of a Green Party delegation to Senator Patty Murray's office. We met with Ardis Dumont, Senator Murray's Director of Special Projects, to talk about the impending US military action against Iran. read more »
CAN PROGRESSIVES SUPPORT OBAMA?
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 23:03.CAN PROGRESSIVES SUPPORT OBAMA?
Thomas Riggins
Unless Obama changes his position on Iraq, I think the answer is, at present, No! This is why I think so.
The New York Times reports (9-13-07) that while Obama wants to withdraw COMBAT brigades by the end of 2008 he wants to leave some forces behind "to strike at terrorists, train Iraqi soldiers and protect American interests."
But to strike at terrorists will require leaving combat troops in Iraq so this is really not a withdrawal but merely a troop reduction and a continued occupation disguised as a withdrawal. read more »
ROGER COHEN AND THE DISQUIET OF GEN. CHIARELLI
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 09/11/2007 - 23:22.ROGER COHEN AND THE DISQUIET OF GEN. CHIARELLI
by Thomas Riggins
Monday's New York Times (9/10/07) has an interesting op ed piece by Roger Cohen ("A U.S. General's Disquiet.") The general in question is Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli who is presently the Def Sec's (Robert Gates) senior military advisor. Cohen's piece is about an upcoming article in the journal Military Review by the general. (along with Maj. Steven Smith.) Let's see if we can figure out the reasons for his disquiet from the information provided by Cohen. read more »
You're a terrorist! Why? Because we say so!
Submitted by rafael on Thu, 08/16/2007 - 01:21.
US. Weighing Terrorist Label for Iran Guards
from the NYTimes via Rob Richards at OlyBlog
I have a feeling this would make the Iran Guards, members of a "legitimate" foreign military, fall into the U.S. fascists' make-believe "illegal combatant" category, "allowing" "our" military to ignore the Geneva convention when attacking and imprisoning the poor brainwashed bastards.
By HELENE COOPER
Published: August 15, 2007
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 — The Bush administration is preparing to declare that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps is a foreign terrorist organization, senior administration officials said Tuesday.
If imposed, the declaration would signal a more confrontational turn in the administration’s approach to Iran and would be the first time that the United States has added the armed forces of any sovereign government to its list of terrorist organizations. read more »
Hundreds of Egyptians protest government plan to evict them from Gaza border
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 07/22/2007 - 20:22.July 22, 2007 International Herald Tribune
AL ARISH, Egypt: Over 700 Egyptians protested Sunday a government plan to evict them from their homes in order to improve security on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, police and demonstrators said.
Egyptian authorities have previously evicted residents living within 50 meters (54 yards) of the border to prevent traffickers and militants from digging tunnels to enter Gaza. Protesters on Sunday were demonstrating against a new plan that would evict people from homes within an extra 100 meters (109 yards). read more »
Gazans protest to open border crossing with Egypt
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 01:54.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AFP) - Hundreds of Palestinians staged an angry protest in southern Gaza on Tuesday demanding the reopening of the strip's border crossing with Egypt where thousands have been stuck for a month. read more »
