"All our stores in Gaza are full now. We will be safe for the next six months"
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip On a Gaza street corner, unemployed construction worker Mohammed Mikdad peddled $3,000 worth of diesel fuel he bought in Egypt after last week's border breach, hoping to make enough profit ... via ABC 33/40
"Children are taken straight home from school by their parents; they don't drop in to buy sweets."
You can tell almost as much about a country from the things they want you to see as the things they would prefer you didn't. And just now one of things Israel really wants the outside world to see is daily life ... via The Independent
"Israel won't play in the hands of Hamas."
The de facto Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip warned of a "catastrophe" if Israel did not end its total lock-down of the coastal salient, which entered its fourth day Monday. via Earth Times
"The siege is over! It was Hamas' people who freed us"
Gunmen destroyed vast sections of the seven-mile-long barricade that divides the Gaza Strip and Egypt on Wednesday, allowing tens of thousands of Palestinians to stream across the border and revel in a day away ... via Journal Gazette
"This is insufficient and we will continue our efforts to get a total lifting of the blockade"
AGENCIES, GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP AND RAMALLAH, WEST BANK Wednesday, Jan 23, 2008, Page 1 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Israel to fully lift its blockade of Gaza, calling a partial easing of the ... via The Taipei Times
"If they shut it down, it's not because of a fuel shortage, but because they want to create the impression of a crisis"
Cars were still driving along Gaza City's darkened streets The only power plant in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip has shut down because of a lack of fuel, Palestinian officials say, blaming Israeli restrictions. via BBC
Playmate Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner, playmates Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson attend a photocall promoting the television serie 'Girls Next Door' on the second day of the 2007 Monte Carlo Television ... via KMTR Eugene
"We have humanitarian concerns about the people here"
Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington, visited the Latin monastery in Gaza City yesterday while President Bush met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank ... via World Peace Herald
