Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Eva Bartlett GAZA CITY, Jun 19, 2011 (IPS) – "During the first years of the siege, we could still manage, but nowadays we have no alternatives," says Dr. Hassan Khalaf, Deputy Health Minister in Gaza. "It is a major crisis: many health services have stopped, and I’m [...]
MIDEAST: Palestinian Spring Brings Nothing New
June 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Eva Bartlett BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip, Jun 6, 2011 (IPS) – It is a scene replayed weekly in Palestine. In Gaza, groups of chanting demonstrators walk towards the border with Israel, singing, chanting, dancing. Ayat el Masari, 20, walks with the masses. An English major at Gaza’s [...]
MIDEAST: War Clouds Back Over Gaza
April 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Apr 12, 2011 (IPS) – After several days of intense violence, during which 19 Palestinians were killed and one Israeli wounded, a fragile calm has returned to Gaza. But political commentators argue that this could well be a precursor to Israel’s next war on [...]
MIDEAST: Gaza Protesters Prepare for March 15
February 27, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pam Bailey GAZA CITY, Feb 27, 2011 (IPS) – A look at the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings that succeeded in ousting long- entrenched dictators confirms a universal truth: it is the youth who are leading the way in forcing reform in the Middle East. In the Occupied [...]
Hungry Gazans Feed Egyptian Troops
February 9, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mohammed Omer RAFAH, Feb 9, 2011 (IPS) – Mustapha Suleiman, 27, from J Block east of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, crosses through gaps in the iron fence on the border carrying bread, water, meat cans and a handful of vegetables for Egyptian soldiers stationed on the [...]
The Roof Is Now the Field
December 2, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Eva Bartlett BEIT HANOUN, Gaza, Dec 2, 2010 (IPS) – "We grow on our roof because we are farmers but have no land now," says Moatassan Hamad, 21, from Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza Strip. "Our family is large and thankfully what we grow feeds us," he [...]
MIDEAST: The People Speak
November 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Eva Bartlett GAZA CITY, Oct 31, 2010 (IPS) – The focus on people’s movements in Palestine continues to gain momentum with growing non-violent demonstrations in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, and with a Palestine-wide call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. [...]
MIDEAST: But the Coffins Do Come In
October 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mohammed Omer GAZA CITY, Oct 13, 2010 (IPS) – Samir Tahseen Al-Nadeem died after waiting 35 days for an exit permit for treatment for his heart condition. He was 26. The medicines he needed could not get in. But the coffins do. The health ministry now lists [...]
MIDEAST: Hungry in Gaza, More and More
September 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Eva Bartlett GAZA CITY, Sep 29, 2010 (IPS) – "Sometimes, for a day or two we don’t even have bread, nor flour to make bread. There’s a store nearby that, when we are truly desperate, lets us take a bag of bread or something simple, on credit. [...]
MIDEAST: Dreaming of Fish, and Flowers
September 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mohammed Omer GAZA CITY, Sep 16, 2010 (IPS) – As the many colours of the fish and flowers slowly disappear from the Gaza landscape, the already grim prospects of the besieged residents begins to look even bleaker. Fishing was a profession that used to keep thousands of [...]
