ICRC says Israeli clamps worsen Gaza and W.Bank crisis
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Israeli restrictions have caused a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank that is growing worse, leaving hospitals unable to treat the sick and keeping farmers off their land, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
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Israel is guilty of severe human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including âwanton destructionâ of houses and infrastructure, according to a new United Nations report.
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The UN expresses concern over rising tensions on the border between Israel and Lebanon.
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Israel tightened its closure of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday in response to cross-border rocket fire by militants, preventing even U.N. humanitarian supplies from getting in, officials said.
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Israel allowed in fuel and medical supplies to Gaza Tuesday morning, after an earlier blockade left residents struggling with severe power cuts and sparked concerns from aid agencies of a humanitarian crisis.
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Israel began easing a tight closure that aid officials had warned could lead to a health and food crisis.
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RAFAH, Egypt, June 17 -- All but sealed off by Egypt and Israel, Gaza presented an intensifying security concern to its neighbors and a fast-approaching humanitarian crisis Sunday, three days after its takeover by Hamas.
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The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said Saturday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his policy are leading Israel to agony and distress.
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International observers toured army roadblocks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Saturday, and Palestinian officials complained Israel wasn't fully complying with promises to ease travel restrictions one day ahead of presidential elections to replace the late Yasser Arafat.
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A series of crises, not a burst of goodwill, has made long moribund Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking possible again: economic meltdown in the West Bank and Gaza, plummeting popularity for Israel's prime minister after the war in Lebanon, President Bush's troubles in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Israel risks international sanctions and other serious diplomatic repercussions surrounding the barrier it is building in the West Bank and must
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As many as 12 United Nations agencies have expressed serious concern about a looming humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. The organisations - including the United Nations Development
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JERUSALEMâA US human rights watchdog has accused Israel of exaggerating the threat posed by Palestinian arms-smuggling tunnels to justify a military thrust into a Gaza refugee camp that has left an estimated 16,000 homeless.
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Gaza City awoke Monday to shuttered bread shops and gas stations, prompting fears of a humanitarian crisis as Israel pressed ahead with efforts to stop Palestinian rocket fire, refusing to reopen crossings or allow in crucial fuel supplies
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Israel's latest blockade of Gaza is threatening to destroy the territory's commercial sector and drive more people into the hands of extremists, according to a report published yesterday.
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An independent report commissioned by the United Nations compares Israel's actions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to apartheid in South Africa &#151; charges that have drawn angry rebukes from Israel.
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Residents of Gaza on Monday were coping with power cuts which led to long lines at bakeries and darkened hospital wards, but Israel said reports of a humanitarian crisis were exaggerated.