Inside scarred minds Daniel Day-Lewis in The Sunday Times of London Magazine - On his first visit to the Gaza Strip, Daniel Day-Lewis meets the Palestinian families living in the heart of the danger zone – and the psychologists who are counselling them
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Israel Ends Some Home Demolitions Amos Harel in Haaretz - Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz adopted the recommendation made by a military committee to end the policy of demolishing houses belonging to terrorists’ families. The majority of home demolitions, however, will not be halted.
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Another Faceless Crime Jonson (ISM) in Palestine - When I look back upon my experience staying in a house that was set for demolition I only think of the kind eyed father crippled by Israeli fire two years ago, the mother numb from the loss of her son, periodically asking tentative questions in Arabic and the friend sitting opposite us in the newly rented family house staring incessantly at the wall, thinking of
past times with his young friend, in between handing us glasses of coke, an atmosphere of loss hung over our uncomfortable conversation.
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Guns and Bulldozers Raze Homes in Gaza Robert Fisk in the Independent - In any other place, it would be a scandal, an outrage. If Palestinians had willfully destroyed the homes of 200 Israelis there would be talk of barbarism, of “terrorism,” grave warnings from George Bush to Mr. Arafat to “curb violence.”
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