Salih reviews several books including, When the Birds Stopped Singing: Life in Ramallah Under Siege by Raja Shehadeh, I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti and translated by Ahdaf Soueif, and Dreaming of Palestine: A Novel of Friendship, Love and War by Randa Ghazy.
HAIFA, Israel - Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists, including a Nobel laureate and a Holocaust survivor, set sail Sunday for the Gaza Strip, edging closer to an expected naval showdown with Israeli warships determined to stop them. Huwaida Arraf, one of the organizers, said the six-boat flotilla began the journey from international waters off the coast of Cyprus in the afternoon after two days of delays. She said they expected to reach Gaza, about 250 miles away, this afternoon, and that two more boats would follow in "a second wave.
JERUSALEM Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday ruled out a broad military operation in the Gaza Strip, deflecting rising anger after an 8-year-old boy lost a leg in a Palestinian rocket attack. But Israel's top diplomat warned that it will be impossible to reach a peace agreement with Palestinians as long as the Hamas rulers of Gaza continue to foment violence.
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP | The Hamas-run government has announced that Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have agreed to a cease- fire in an effort to halt spiraling violence with Israel. The Interior Ministry said in a statement that it had received a positive response to its efforts to stop the violence from escalating.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian militants fired more than 30 rockets at southern Israel on Saturday, and Israeli warplanes killed five militants in the Gaza Strip in the most intense fighting since Israel's 2008-2009 offensive in the Hamas-ruled territory. The escalating series of strikes and counterstrikes has killed 18 Gazans since it began Thursday following a Hamas missile attack against an Israeli school bus. The continuing clashes are increasing the probability of a full-scale military confrontation.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israeli missiles fired from the air ripped apart two cars Wednesday in the Gaza Strip, killing four Palestinian militants and wounding five other people, including an Islamic Jihad spokesman, the military and Palestinians said. The strikes came as the Palestinians' ruling Fatah Party slipped into disarray. Young activists split away and formed their own party for Jan. 25 parliamentary elections, rejecting attempts by old- timers to keep control of the party that has ruled Palestinian politics for decades.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Palestinian militants sent a deadly barrage of missiles flying deep into Israel on Monday, demonstrating that Hamas still had firepower three days into Israel's punishing air offensive in Gaza. Four Israelis, including a soldier, were killed and eight wounded. Palestinian health officials put the three-day death toll in Gaza at 364; the United Nations said the total included at least 62 civilians.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A new round of violence between Israel and Palestinian militants has Gaza's Hamas rulers caught between reluctance to take on Israel and discomfort with reining in fellow Islamists from smaller, more radical groups involved in the fighting. The fighting has killed 10 Palestinians and an Israeli, casting doubts on assessments that the recent prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas might improve relations between the bitter foes. Despite the worst bloodshed in months, both sides indicated they were interested in restoring calm.
JERUSALEM - Israel intercepted a ship carrying a large delivery of arms off the country's Mediterranean coast on Tuesday, saying the shipment included sophisticated weaponry sent by Iran and Syria for Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. The incident was the latest in a string of Israeli naval operations against smugglers it accuses of arming Gaza's Hamas rulers. Israel has long contended that Iran and Syria provide arms and other support to Hamas and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
Israel urges Lebanon to prevent aid ships headed to Gaza from breaking blockade UNITED NATIONS -- Israel is urging Lebanon and the international community to prevent two ships from sailing to Gaza from a Lebanese port to break Israel's blockade of the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory. It warned that the vessels will be stopped. Israel's U.N. Ambassador Gabriela Shalev accused organizers of the aid ships of seeking "to incite a confrontation and raise tensions in our region." A deadly Israeli commando raid on a Turkish ship trying to bring aid to Gaza on May 31 left nine activists dead and focused international attention on Israel's blockade of Gaza, imposed after the Islamist militant and anti-Israel Hamas violently overran the Palestinian territory in June 2007. In letters to Secretar...
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