Day 10: Ground offensive continues amid media blackout

GAZA FUNERAL DAY 10At least 12 Palestinian civilians were killed on Monday as Israel continued its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip for a second day. Some 530 Palestinians have been killed and more than 2,500 Palestinians wounded since Operation Cast Lead began ten days ago. More than 80 deaths have been reported in the ground offensive and, according to a UN agency, a quarter of the deaths have been civilians.

Posted on 05/01/2009 - 15:59


Gaza protests increase in EU countries
Posted on 05/01/2009 - 13:00
As European Union delegations poured into the Middle East today to try and broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, protests in the European Union countries have escalated. MENASSAT’s correspondent Alexandra Sandels covered the protest actions in Stockholm.

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Lebanese head to the American Embassy
Posted on 05/01/2009 - 16:37
On January 4, the day after Israel started its ground invasion of Gaza, protesters in Beirut took their demonstration to the US embassy in the hills above Beirut—a favored target of angry protesters against wars in the region ever since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. beirut demos-Gaza 107r.jpg
 



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NEW: Eman Mohammed has this photo report from the northern Gaza Strip where an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday killed the two youngest girls of the Hamdan family in Beit Hanoun. Lama, 4, and Haia, 11, had been dumping garbage near their house when they were hit. Their 11-year-old brother Ismail died later from his wounds.
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Day 9: Israel begins ground offensive
Posted on 04/01/2009 - 17:17
To the Egyptian embassy we march, again
Posted on 03/01/2009 - 13:30
Local radio stations on the front line
Posted on 03/01/2009 - 05:48
War planes help usher in the New Year
Posted on 03/01/2009 - 00:35

Gaza Update: Day 7
Posted on 02/01/2009 - 22:24
Gaza Update: Day 5
Posted on 31/12/2008 - 16:24
ANALYSIS: A broader look at the recent Gaza attacks
Posted on 31/12/2008 - 13:03
Palestinian protests increase in the West Bank
Posted on 31/12/2008 - 14:21
Fear and terror spread in Gaza
Posted on 30/12/2008 - 18:11
Day 4: MENASSAT surveys Gaza media coverage
Posted on 30/12/2008 - 21:00
Gaza bodycount redux: Palestinians 370 – Israelis 4
Posted on 30/12/2008 - 16:15
Natalie Abu Sha'ra: 'It makes sense for me to be in Gaza'
Posted on 29/12/2008 - 11:47
Gaza's blackest day
Posted on 28/12/2008 - 19:30
Gaza bodycount: Palestinians 271 – Israelis 1
Posted on 28/12/2008 - 14:45
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Prison break: From Gaza to Stockholm and back ola madhun 
Posted on 24/12/2008 - 14:49
MENASSAT’s Gaza Correspondent Ola Madhoun experiences daily challenges that would drive most reporters to quit the business. After a recent trip to Sweden for a training course in Journalism and Democracy, she reflects on what it means to be a reporter in Gaza while the international community waxes poetic about democracy and justice.
Gaza's New Stone Age em008.jpg 
Posted on 24/12/2008 - 12:37
As electricity and cooking gas remain scarce in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli blockade, Gazan families are turning to a technique from another time: cooking on makeshift fires, using any fuel available—even if it means burning 3-year-old Beisan's favorite sweater. For MENASSAT, Eman Mohammed documents Gaza's New Stone Age in this photo essay.
Carlos Latuff: Cartoonist and opinion-maker COVER LATUFF 
Posted on 23/12/2008 - 16:03
He has been alternatively praised and vilified in the press for his depictions of suffering in places like the Palestinian Territories, Iraq, and the slums of Latin America. But Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff says he is not out to please anyone. MENASSAT spoke with Latuff on the heals of a newly released series of cartoons about Iraqi journalist Muntazer Al-Zaidi.
Bringing Sesame Street back to Palestine sesame street 
Posted on 22/12/2008 - 21:27
In November, a joint U.S.-Palestinian version of Sesame Street (Sharaá Simsim in Arabic) was launched in Ramallah. With months of outreach planned to introduce Kareem and Haneen, the two main Muppet characters, to Palestinian children, producers and educators are hoping the show will help educate children in the midst of a worsening political and economic situation in the Palestinian Territories.
The new generation of Israeli refusniks jvpwebbannershministim.jpg 
Posted on 22/12/2008 - 18:46
Most Israeli youth who graduate from high school go directly to military service. Some however go straight to prison. They are known as the Shministim (Hebrew for twelfth graders) and they are the new generation of Refusniks—Israelis who refuse to serve in the Israeli army in protest of Israeli policies in the Palestinian Territories.
When social networking becomes a news source tunis facebook 
Posted on 20/12/2008 - 14:41
Tunisians facing continuing government restrictions on their access to domestic news are turning to social networking sites to balance the stunted news coverage of Tunisia’s official media. MENASSAT highlights one such incident during popular protests in the mining area of Gafsa.
Rumours or reality? Palestinian Christians in Gaza gaza churches 
Posted on 19/12/2008 - 19:38
The Jerusalem Post claims that Palestinian Christians in Gaza are being persecuted, and that many are trying to leave the Hamas-controlled territory. But there are some in Gaza who say this is simply not true. MENASSAT asked the Gazans.
A victory for Egypt’s private press in the courts egypt.jpg 
Posted on 19/12/2008 - 16:08
The Egyptian administrative court reversed a government decision to monitor financial and administrative records of privately owned newspapers. Press advocates in Egypt say it’s a victory for the free press, but the verdict is still out as to whether the government will press the case further.
Muntazer Al-Zaidi as known by the people of Hamra, Beirut mountazer in hamra 
Posted on 18/12/2008 - 18:59
MENASSAT pays a visit to the restaurant in Beirut where shoe-throwing journalist Muntazer Al-Zaidi was a frequent guest before he became an international celebrity.
Repeating Obama Israeli style israel elections 
Posted on 18/12/2008 - 17:03
Despite Barack Obama's many statements in support of Israel, many Israelis remained skeptical about the Democrat from Illinois throughout the campaign. Now that Obama has been elected President, all that has changed. And in Israel's own elections campaign, everybody now wants to be Obama.
Bush 'shoegate' sparks Facebook frenzy montazar SC.jpg 
Posted on 17/12/2008 - 18:56
Hundreds of groups on Facebook have been set up in support of the Iraqi journalist Muntazer Al-Zaidi who stunned the world on Sunday by hurling two shoes at outgoing US-President George Bush at a press conference in Baghdad.
22 convicted for food rioting in Egypt’s ‘Mahalla 49’ case mahalla case 
Posted on 17/12/2008 - 17:35
An Egyptian emergency court has sentenced 22 people to jail for participating in violent food riots in April this year in Egypt’s Nile Delta city of Mahalla. The uprising was largely publicized by a group of Egyptian Facebook activists and bloggers who gathered nearly 80,000 people in support for a general strike in protest of rising commodity prices and soaring wages.