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 » Israeli Military Invades Nabi Saleh, Abducts Child from Tamimi Family
April 8, 2019 2:30 AM - IMEMC News
▻https://imemc.org/article/israeli-military-invades-nabi-saleh-abducts-child-from-tamimi-family

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday before dawn, Nabi Saleh village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and abducted a child, identified as Mohammad Bassem Tamimi, 15, after breaking into the property and searching it.

As the child was getting dressed to go with the soldiers, his mother Nariman Tamimi was talking to him, telling him to remain silent, not to talk with the interrogators without legal representation, and not to sign anything they try to get him to sign.

The soldiers violently searched the property, removing and displacing furniture and belongings, and after briefly allowing him to hug his family members. Then the child was taken away by the soldiers.

It is worth mentioning that the soldiers also invaded the home of Mahmoud Tamimi, a member of the Popular Committee against The Wall and Colonies, in the village, and violently searched it.

The soldiers also abducted another Palestinian, identified as Moayyad Hamza Tamimi, after invading his home and searching it.

#Nabi_Saleh #Tamimi

Syrian truckers fear for jobs as Turkish drivers cross border
▻https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/03/syria-bab-al-salama-crossing-turkey-trucks-goods.html

Turkey has reopened the Bab al-Salam/Oncupinar border crossing with Syria to Turkish truck traffic, effectively cutting half a workday off some truckers’ delivery times. Turkish trucks had not entered Syria through the gate for nearly eight years for security reasons following the outbreak of the Syrian civil war.

On March 5, Turkish authorities gave trucks laden with goods the green light to cross into Syria’s Aleppo province via the Bab al-Salam/Oncupinar crossing. Their cargoes now can be driven through the Syrian area controlled by the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA). Previously, once Turkish trucks reached the crossing, their goods were transferred onto Syrian trucks.

Turkey’s official news provider, Anadolu Agency, reported that about 50 Turkish trucks crossed the border March 5.

Anadolu quoted a truck driver as saying, “We had [previously] unloaded trucks in the buffer zone to be loaded onto Syrian trucks, but now we cross the border and unload the trucks directly where we need to.”

The alternative to this unloading-loading process had been to use al-Rai crossing, which allowed trucks to enter Syria, but this then required a lengthy drive to reach their destinations in al-Bab, Azaz, Marea and other FSA-controlled areas.

Anadolu quoted a Turkish official in the transport sector as saying, “Thanks to the opening of [Bab al-Salam/Oncupinar crossing] for direct transit, the drivers and transport companies can shorten their distance and time. We needed four hours to reach Azaz, and now it only takes us 15 minutes.”

Not everyone is pleased with the change, however. The development has angered Syrian truck drivers, owners of shipping companies and employees.

#syrie #normalisation (enfin, si on veut)

US makes an offer to Turkey for the sale of Patriot #missiles

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The United States has formally made an offer to Turkey for the sale of multibillion dollar Patriot air defense systems, the Anadolu Agency has reported, in a bid to increase its pressure on the latter’s purchase of Russian-made S-400 systems.

▻http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/us-makes-an-offer-to-turkey-for-the-sale-of-patriot-missiles-1402

#armes #commerce_d'armes #USA #Etats-Unis #Turquie #armement
ping @reka

Turkey deports over 6,800 Afghan migrants

The Turkish government has deported 6,846 Afghan refugees back to Kabul recently, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry’s General Directorate of Migration Management.

The directorate said the migrants were deported from the eastern provinces of Erzurum, Ağrı, and the western province of İzmir on nine charter flights, as well as additional scheduled flights following the completion of deportation procedures, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on April 16.

The undocumented migrants were reported to have entered Turkey through Iran via illegal means and were mostly captured in Erzurum.

More migrants will be deported to Afghanistan through an additional four charter flights in the upcoming days, the directorate said.

Turkey is a common transit country for migrants trying to reach Europe. Turkey accelerated the deportation process on April 8, following reports that nearly 20,000 undocumented Afghan migrants have arrived in the country over the past three months, an unprecedented number.

The first group of Afghan migrants, consisting of more than 200 people, left Erzurum on April 8 on a charter flight bound for Kabul, with reports following that a total of 3,000 were planned to be deported from Erzurum alone.

The Interior Ministry on April 7 said the Afghan migrants had crossed into Turkey through Iran due to “ongoing terrorist activities and economic troubles” in Afghanistan and security forces had handed the migrants over to provincial immigration authorities

“Following the completion of deportation procedures for illegal migrants in our other provinces, deportations will speed up and continue in the coming days,” the ministry said in a statement.

During an official visit to Kabul on April 8, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said the Interior Ministry was conducting a productive plan to stop the inflow of illegal Afghan migrants.

▻https://www.pajhwok.com/en/2018/04/17/turkey-deports-over-6800-afghan-migrants
#réfugiés_afghans #renvois #expulsions #Afghanistan #Turquie #asile #migrations #réfugiés

cc @i_s_ @tchaala_la @isskein

’I was just following orders’: What will you tell your children? - Opinion

’How did you destroy villages?’ one daughter will ask. ’How did you agree to imprison two million people?’ another will whisper. The answers will only make their weeping louder

Amira Hass Apr 08, 2018

▻https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-i-was-just-following-orders-what-will-you-tell-your-children-1.597

Maybe the day will come and young Israelis – not one or two, but an entire generation – will ask their parents: How could you? If the question is asked, our situation will already be better because it will signal the post-herd stage of the Israeli existence.
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The problem is we cannot know when this will happen. In another 70 years? In another 50? How low can we sink in our choosing to go along with the herd, wicked and enjoyable in its own right? What nadir must we reach before the young people are shocked about what their parents and grandparents did and stop imitating them, an emulation that is also an upgrade of sorts.
Let us allow ourselves a minute of optimism, and assume that the question will be asked before it is too late. With just a bit more optimism, let us say they will be the 4-year-olds of today, or those who are born in another few months. Congratulations.

A man fills a bucket with water brought by a water tank carriage as Palestinians face a water crisis in Gaza City, Gaza on May 9, 2016.Ali Jadallah / Anadolu Agency /
The question “how could you?” will split into a few sub-questions. For example: Why did you consent? You really didn’t know? Don’t talk nonsense — after all, the information was published in real time, and in abundance. You didn’t need to wait for someone to be released from a forced labor camp in Siberia and appear at the door a few months later to tell the story.
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Why didn’t you care? Why did you remain silent? How could you have gone out hiking on the weekends, watch television and movies, go shopping in the new mall and work on your master’s degree in history of the gulags or run a business from your home, choose concerts and plays in London and go to the soccer game every week – and also renovate the house as if everything was normal?
The parents may be embarrassed and say: “You have to understand, it wasn’t just us. Our neighbor Adina too, who was a famous professor of the history of anti-Semitism, lived normally – between her trips abroad, conversations in the supermarket and interviews on radio and television. She too remained silent on those matters, and loved to hear the later sonatas of Beethoven and Bartok.” And then the mother will correct the father: “What’s the matter with you? She wasn’t an expert in anti-Semitism, but on species of butterflies going extinct.” The argument between the two will spill over into other arguments, and that is how they will avoid answering their daughter’s question.

Other parents may apologize. “You must understand,” they will say. “We were afraid of terrorism.” And the children will press on: How does the fight against terrorism turn into destroying water pipes and cisterns for collecting rainwater, and quotas for drinking water for specific groups of people at a time when we were enjoying an abundance of water? The father will twist and turn and say he “was not responsible for the quota. Ask the children of Mordechai and Ori about that, and nu, what was his name, the infrastructure minister?” The son – forgive him for his interruptions, he is a teenager – will yell: But you drove the bulldozers that destroyed the cisterns. Grandpa told me about it, proudly, before he died. The father will correct him: “An excavator, not a bulldozer — and I was among the soldiers who aimed their rifles at the little buggers who didn’t throw stones at the drivers.”

Turkey sealing Syrian border with giant wall

The Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ) has undertaken the construction of the remaining 700 kilometers of the wall being built on Turkey’s border with war-torn Syria, after the construction of the initial 200-kilometer-long concrete wall on the border was completed jointly by the Defense Ministry and neighboring provinces governor’s offices.

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Name of the leader of the coup attempt in Turkey revealed
▻http://www.azernews.az/region/99432.html

Colonel Muharrem Kose, a former officer in the Turkish Armed Forces was named as the leader of the coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, Anadolu News Agency reported.

A chaotic night began late Friday with reports of soldiers trying to wrestle control of bridges and key functions in major cities, and turned into a nightmare when army helicopters began airstrikes and shelled key locations in the capital, Ankara, Anadolu reported.

Bombs struck near the Turkish Grand Assembly, witnesses said.

Airborne shelling at several locations including the ruling AK Party headquarters, the presidential complex and the General Staff have been reported.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim later announced a no-fly zone has been enforced above Ankara, adding that army commanders, including Chief of Staff Hulusi Akar, are on duty and working to stop the illegal military action.

Refugee casualties in Turkish territorial waters of Aegean Sea drop to zero in April

Refugee casualties in the Turkish part of the Aegean Sea dropped to zero in April according to coast guard data compiled by Anadolu Agency.

▻http://www.dailysabah.com/nation/2016/05/03/refugee-casualties-in-turkish-territorial-waters-of-aegean-sea-drop-to-z
#mourir_en_mer #asile #migrations #réfugiés #Turquie #Mer_Egée #Méditerranée

Aha!

The drop in deaths follows a European Union-Turkey deal which aimed to stop people-smuggling gangs which have been trafficking refugees and migrants across the Aegean to nearby Greek islands.

cc @reka

France’s true face: Racism or secularism?
▻http://aa.com.tr/en/world/france-s-true-face-racism-or-secularism/546785

For Yasser Louati, spokesperson for the Collective Against Islamophobia in #France, such official “racist” remarks are nothing new and only “confirm the sentiments of members of this current government towards minorities”.

“The marginalization of Muslim women is not new, it dates back decades. The only difference about the Islamophobic and racist nature of those words is that they were said openly and publically at that time,” Louati told Anadolu Agency.

He added that the way “those words are being said by a member of the government is just a continuation of this government’s hypocritical and openly racist policy.”

#PS #racisme #islamophobie #minorités

3 Turkish Scholars Arrested Over ’Terror Propaganda’ Charges

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency says a court in Istanbul has charged three academics with making terrorist propaganda and ordered them arrested pending the outcome of a trial.

▻http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/03/15/world/europe/ap-eu-turkey-academics-arrested.html?_r=0
#Turquie #répression #académiciens_de_la_paix #chercheurs #université #universitaires_pour_la_paix

Artificial wind energy may be Turkey’s answer to demand
▻http://www.aaenergyterminal.com/news.php?newsid=7741127

Produire du vent artificiel à partir des pertes d’énergie de différentes unités de productions et alimenter des éoliennes. C’est pas un peu comme si on utilisait un sèche cheveu pour produire de l’électricité ? Quelquechose m’échappe dans l’intérêt d’un tel projet !

Turkey can meet growing energy demand from artificial wind, says innovative project owner. An innovative technology in the energy sector, which generates electricity by creating artificial wind, could provide Turkey with a much needed alternative to tackle its energy demand problem, Nurettin Aydin, the project’s patent holder, told Anadolu Agency on Thursday.

The project utilizes energy sources which are unable to be turned into electricity by current power plants due to their low heat quality, he said, and added that these sources include, low heat geothermal energy, waste steam and hot water from industrial facilities

#Turquie #Electricité

Alors que Bagdad vient de menacer Ankara de s’adresser au Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU si les troupes turques n’étaient pas retirées de Bashiqa (région de Mossoul), le Hürriyet révèle qu’un accord pour y installer une base turque permanente a été signé le 04 novembre entre Ankara et le Gouvernement régional kurde d’Erbil :
▻http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-military-to-have-a-base-in-iraqs-mosul.aspx?pageID=238&nI

Turkey will have a permanent military base in the Bashiqa region of Mosul as the Turkish forces in the region training the Peshmerga forces have been reinforced, Hürriyet reported.
The deal regarding the base was signed between Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani and Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioğlu, during the latter’s visit to northern Iraq on Nov. 4.
At least 150 Turkish soldiers, accompanied by 20-25 tanks, were deployed to the area by land late on Dec. 4, Anadolu Agency reported.
Turkish army sources told Anadolu Agency on Dec. 5 that they had been training fighters across four provinces in northern Iraq to fight ISIL.

La pression des milices chiites sur al-Abadi pour appeler les Russes à la rescousse va se faire plus forte encore...

Turkey agrees with Azerbaijan to accelerate gas project
▻http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-agrees-with-azerbaijan-to-accelerate-gas-project-.aspx?pag

Turkey has agreed with Azerbaijan to accelerate the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP), with an aim to have the gas project completed before the planned 2018, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said on Dec. 3, as quoted by Reuters.

In a joint news conference with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev in the capital Baku, Davutoğlu also said Turkey was willing to share details of its recent jet downing incident with Russia.

This was the latest move by Turkey’s leaders, who are in an effort to diversify energy supplies as ties with its largest natural gas provider Russia have tumbled following the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey.

Earlier this week President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Qatar to explore the possibility of buying more liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its Gulf Arab ally.

Turkey’s gas grid BOTAŞ and Qatar’s national oil energy company inked a memorandum of understanding during Erdoğan’s visit on Dec. 2 which will pave the way for Turkey to import LNG in both a regular and long-term manner, according to Turkish officials.

This accord will help Turkey’s LNG imports from Qatar gain a long-term perspective, the officials said, as reported by Anadolu Agency.

In the meantime, Russian gas supplies to Turkey are flowing normally, despite the row between the two countries, a source in Russian gas giant Gazprom told Reuters on Dec. 3.

#Turquie #Russie #Energie #Qatar #Azerbaidjan

Türkei fängt 1300 Flüchtlinge ab

Nur Stunden nach der Übereinkunft mit der Europäischen Union (EU) über die Begrenzung des Flüchtlingsstroms haben die Behörden der Türkei rund 1300 Migranten festgenommen, die offenbar über das Meer nach Griechenland wollten.

Im Nordwesten der Türkei haben Behörden rund 1300 Flüchtlinge festgenommen, die offenbar Richtung Griechenland weiterreisen wollten. Zudem seien während des Einsatzes in der Hafenstadt Ayvacik vier Schlepper gefasst sowie mehrere Flüchtlings - und Motorboote beschlagnahmt worden, meldete die staatliche Nachrichtenagentur Anadolu am Montag. #Ayvacik ist der Hauptdurchgangsort für Fahrten zur griechischen Insel Lesbos.

▻http://www.nzz.ch/international/tuerkei-faengt-1300-fluechtlinge-ab-1.18655301
#emprisonnement #détention_administrative #externalisation #Turquie #réfugiés #migrations #asile #Europe
cc @reka

Turkey aims to establish Sinop Nuclear Power Plant Inc. Co.
▻http://www.aaenergyterminal.com/news.php?newsid=6752622

Turkey aims to shortly establish a Sinop Nuclear Power Plant Incorporated Company, as part of a consortium for Turkey’s second nuclear power plant in Sinop, according EUAS’ chief executive on Monday.

Halil Alis, the general manager of Turkish Electricity Generation Company (EUAS), told Anadolu Agency in an interview that the nuclear partner company for Sinop will be established by Turkey’s EUAS in cooperation with French and Japanese authorities to transfer nuclear knowledge and boost nuclear energy in Turkey.

He said that the subsidiary company of EUAS International Limited, based in the Jersey Islands and with capital worth $50 million, will partner with French Japanese partners for the Sinop plant. The French Japanese partners, who comprise French AREVA and Japanese Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, aim to establish a company in Holland.

#Nucléaire #Turquie

Turkey : Blast hits Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline - ENERGY
▻http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-blast-hits-baku-tbilisi-erzurum-pipeline------.aspx?pageID

An explosion has hit the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars-Erzurum gas pipeline in eastern Turkey, a provincial governor has told Anadolu Agency.

Günay Özdemir, the governor of northeastern Kars province, said the blast happened in the early hours of Aug. 4 at a section of the pipeline located in the Sarıkamış district. Gas flow was cut in nearby Yağbasan village for safety reasons.

“An investigation is underway into the explosion and the necessary measures have been taken,” Özdemir said, as quoted by the agency.

Energy Minister Taner Yıldız said in written statement the gas flow through the pipeline had been stopped after sabotage by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the very early hours of Aug. 4, as reported by Reuters.

An anonymous source told Reuters the blast occurred on the Posof side of the pipeline, which is owned by Turkish state-run gas grid Botaş, and had damaged the pipeline.

“There has not been any gas flow through the pipeline so we’ll [not] see any negative effect about meeting the demand,” a source told Reuters.

#Turquie #PKK #guerre_énergie

Turkey to become energy hub by pricing gas on spot mkt.
▻http://www.aaenergyterminal.com/news.php?newsid=5514007

Turkey can become a true energy hub by pricing natural gas on the spot market, Dr. Volkan Ozdemir, head of the Institute for Energy Markets and Policies, EPPEN, told Anadolu Agency.

Noting that Turkey is buying natural gas from Azerbaijan, Russia and Iran at the moment, Ozdemir said northern Iraqi and eastern Mediterranean gas can also be included with those who transit gas to Europe in the near future.

“If Turkey wants to truly become an energy hub, it has to become a financial center where the price of natural gas is determined on spot markets,” he explained.

Stating that natural gas prices are less indexed to oil prices, Ozdemir stressed Turkey is drifting away from European gas markets.

“In Europe, around 55 percent of natural gas prices are determined on spot markets by supply and demand balance, while the remaining 45 percent of prices are indexed to prices of oil, petroleum products, and long-term contracts. In the U.S., it is the same. Their natural gas is priced at Henry Hub,” he added.

The Henry Hub price indexation is used as a pricing point for natural gas in the U.S.’ state of Louisiana. Here gas pipelines also physically merge and serve as a distribution point, while the price of gas is determined by supply and demand balance in the market.

“Instead of just being a transit country for natural gas deliveries from the east to the west, Turkey can host a commercial gas market, where supply and demand meet and price is formed,” Ozdemir emphasized

#Turquie #Hub_énergie #Marché_gaz_naturel #Tarif_énergie

Report looks at dark side of sugar concessions Anadolu Agency
▻http://www.aa.com.tr/en/life/508065--report-looks-at-dark-side-of-sugar-concessions

More than 2,000 families have been affected and at least 3,000 hectares misappropriated for logging by three sugar plantations in the north Cambodian province of Oddar Meanchey, according to a report released Monday.

“Cambodia: The Bitter Taste of Sugar,” found that although Angkor Sugar Company, Cambodia Cane and Sugar Valley Company and Tonle Sugar Cane Company were granted almost 20,000 hectares in concessions in 2008, with the purpose of producing sugar, 17,000 hectares have been illegally grabbed and 214 families forcibly evicted from their homes and land.

#cambodge #sucre #canne_à_sucre #bois #terres

How Revolutions Fail
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/how-revolutions-fail

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A group of Egyptians who call themselves as ’Anti-Coup demonstrators’ stage a demonstration demanding to release of their arrested friends, at Cairo University in Giza, #Egypt on February 18, 2015. Anadolu Agency/Belal Wagdy A group of Egyptians who call themselves as ’Anti-Coup demonstrators’ stage a demonstration demanding to release of their arrested friends, at Cairo University in Giza, Egypt on February 18, 2015. Anadolu Agency/Belal Wagdy

The conservative right has produced some of the best scholars on the birth of revolutions, exemplified by #Alexis_de_Tocqueville and his 1856 book “The Old Regime and the Revolution”.

Mohammed Sayyid Rasas

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#Opinion #Ali_Abdullah_Saleh #Articles #England #France #French_Revolution #Karl_Marx #Mohammed_Mursi #Napoleon_Bonaparte #Russia #Tunisia #Yemen

308,000 Palestinians detained by Israel since the First Intifada

▻https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/15729-308000-palestinians-detained-by-israel-since-the-first-inti

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Some 308,000 Palestinians have been held in Israeli jails since the outbreak of the First Palestinian Intifada in 1987, the Anadolu Agency reported. The Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies said some of these Palestinians had been detained for years, while others had been detained for days. “The conditions of the detainees during the First Intifada had been worse than their conditions now,” the centre said in a statement issued on the anniversary of the uprising. The centre noted that around 30 Palestinians continued to be held in Israeli jails since the 1987 uprising. It called on international human rights organisations to document what it called “Israeli violations” during the uprising so that these violations would continue to bear witness to “Israel’s crimes”.

December 8 marked the 27th anniversary of the outbreak of the First Palestinian Intifada in protest of the living conditions at the Palestinian refugee camps, high unemployment and what the Palestinians saw as insults to their national pride and a daily repression by Israeli authorities against them. The uprising broke out in the Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, when an Israeli truck driver ran over a group of Palestinian workers at the Beit Hanoun crossing.

The uprising has seen a number of operations against Israeli targets where the Palestinians attacked Israeli soldiers and settlers with knives, according to Palestinian sources, before it calmed down in 1991, and finally stopped with the signing of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation in 1993.

#Palestine #Israël #Ière_Intifada #Intifada #conflit_israélo-palestinien #prisonniers #occupation

#Yemen's Radmah under the control of #Houthis
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/houthis-aim-easing-tension-removing-yemen-protest-camps

Updated at 1:53 pm (GMT +2): Houthis managed on Wednesday to take control of the central Yemeni city of Radmah following fierce clashes with local armed tribesmen, a tribal source has said. “Houthis are now controlling the city after 24 hours of clashes with tribesmen,” the source, who asked not to be named, told Anadolu Agency. Armed Houthis are now heavily deployed in the city’s streets, the source added without giving further details. read more

#al-Qaeda #Sanaa

Jihadi groups in north #Lebanon admit to defeat in battle against the army
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/jihadi-groups-north-lebanon-admit-defeat-battle-against-army

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Lebanese soldiers are seen following the clashes between troops and masked gunmen as soldiers control the area in #Lebanon's northern city of #Tripoli on October 25, 2014. (Photo: Anadolu Agency) Lebanese soldiers are seen following the clashes between troops and masked gunmen as soldiers control the area in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli on October 25, 2014. (Photo: Anadolu Agency)

Jihadi groups have not learned their lesson from their experiences in #North_Lebanon. They repeat the same mistakes and end up with the same outcome. What drives an armed group that adopts a certain cause, whether just or not, to wage a battle which it knows ahead of time is a losing battle?

Radwan (...)

#Ahmed_al-Asir #Al-Nusra_Front #Articles #Dinniyeh #Fatah_al-Islam #ISIS #Khaled_Hoblos

Construction materials to be allowed into #Gaza
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/construction-materials-be-allowed-gaza

A final agreement has been reached between the Palestinians, #Israel and the UN to allow the entry of construction materials into the blockaded Gaza Strip, a Palestinian government source said Wednesday. “The agreement covers the mechanism by which construction materials will be allowed into Gaza, the monitoring mechanism and the means of distribution,” the source told Anadolu Agency. Israel routinely bars the entry of building materials into the embattled coastal enclave on grounds that Palestinian resistance faction Hamas could use them to build underground tunnels or fortifications. read more

#Palestine