Jul 31 2014 - 12:46pm Al-Omari calls for leveraging Gaza war toward ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict
July 31, 2014

ATFP Executive Director Ghaith Al-Omari spoke today with Carl Wolfson host of Carl in the Morning at Xray.fm in Oregon about the need to leverage the ongoing war in Gaza toward reaching a long-lasting end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Jul 31 2014 - 10:17am International outcry after Israel attacks market and UN school
July 31, 2014

At least 17 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a crowded Gaza market on Wednesday.The attack came hours after a school sheltering more than 3,000 people was shelled, killing 16 and drawing furious condemnation from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).

Jul 31 2014 - 10:10am UN rights chief: Israel defying international law in Gaza, must be held accountable
July 31, 2014

The United Nations' senior human rights official said on Thursday she believed Israel was deliberately defying international law in its military offensive in Gaza and that world powers should hold it accountable for possible war crimes.

Jul 31 2014 - 10:07am At least 17 Palestinians killed today, bringing the total death toll to 1,380
July 31, 2014

At least 17 Palestinians have been killed today in Gaza, in the 24th day of the Israeli offensive. These killings bring the death toll to 1,380 with more than 8,000 injured.

Jul 30 2014 - 10:16am End the Gaza blockade to achieve peace
July 30, 2014

Ultimately, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must be resolved with a final status agreement, and ending the violence and the blockade is a first step toward a permanent solution.

Jul 30 2014 - 10:08am Despite 4-hour ceasefire, Israel kills 5 in shelling on Gaza homes
July 30, 2014

Despite a four-hour humanitarian ceasefire that began at 3:00 p.m., Israeli forces on Wednesday afternoon shelled a number of homes across the Gaza Strip, killing five.

Jul 30 2014 - 10:04am Carnage at U.N. school as Israel pounds Gaza refugee camp
July 30, 2014

Israeli shelling killed at least 15 Palestinians sheltering in a school in Gaza's biggest refugee camp on Wednesday, the Health Ministry said, as Egyptian mediators prepared a revised proposal to try to halt more than three weeks of fighting.

Jul 29 2014 - 10:58am Zionism and Its Discontents
July 29, 2014

This corrosive Israeli exercise in the control of another people, breeding the contempt of the powerful for the oppressed, is a betrayal of the Zionism in which I still believe.​

Jul 29 2014 - 10:53am Gaza's sole power plant knocked out by Israeli strike: official
July 29, 2014

Israeli tank fire hit the fuel depot of the Gaza Strip's only power plant on Tuesday, witnesses said, cutting electricity to Gaza City and many other parts of the Palestinian enclave of 1.8 million people.

Jul 29 2014 - 10:48am More than 108 killed in Gaza since midnight
July 29, 2014

The Palestinian Ministry of Health on Tuesday afternoon said that more than 100 Palestinians had been killed in the Israeli bombardment on Tuesday morning alone, bringing the total past 1,200 as hundreds of thousands fled their homes across the Strip.


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