1. Counterpunch
   Periodical profile
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
2. Disaster and Mental Health
   The Palestinian Experience
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2005
   The continuing Israeli military occupation of Gaza is the cause of deep and widespread trauma for Palestinian children and adults.
3. Electronic Intifada
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Palestinian portal for information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media. News, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective.
4. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Israel historian Ilan Pappe recounts the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians from Israel during the war of 1948.
5. "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
6. The Facts About Hamas and the War on Gaza
   Seeing Through the Lies
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   The record shows that Hamas wanted to continue the ceasefire, but only on condition that Israel eases the blockade. Long before Hamas began the retaliatory rocket attacks on Israel, Palestinians were facing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza because of the blockade.
7. Footnotes in Gaza
   A Graphic Novel
   Resource Type: Book
   A graphic depiction of an incident in Gaza in 1956, when Israeli soldiers massacred 111 Palestinians.
8. From Gaza, with Love
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   First Published: 2006
   A blog by Dr. Mona El-Farra, about women, health, children and human rights in Occupied Palestine.
   
9. Gaza 2009: De-Osloizing the Palestinian Mind
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   The lesson we learn from Gaza 2009 is to harness all effort to fight the outcome of the Oslo Accords, and to form a United Front on a platform of resistance and reforms. This cannot be achieved without dismantling the PA and realizing that ministries, premierships, and presidencies in Gaza and Ramalah are a façade not unlike the South African Independent Homelands with their tribal chiefs. The classical national program, created and adopted by the Palestinian bourgeoisie has reached its end unsuccessfully.
10. Gaza Community Mental Health Programme
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A Palestinian non-governmental, non-profit organization established in 1990 to provide comprehensive community mental health services - therapy, training and research - to the population of the Gaza Strip.
11. Gaza: Health System in Collapse
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    The extremity of suffering in Gaza is little known in the West. Underlying the health emergency is the Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza’s basic infrastructure and Israel’s closure of all Gaza’s borders.
12. Gaza’s Kite Runners
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Gazan children’s kites are expressions of defiance, hope and the longing for freedom.
13. Gaza's Shocking Devastation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    A Canadian Jew's visit to the territory left him ashamed by what he saw.
14. The Goldstone report and the battle for legitimacy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    It may yet be the case that, as in the anti-apartheid struggle, the shift in the relation of forces in the Palestinians' favour will occur not through diplomacy or as a result of armed resistance, but on the symbolic battlefield of legitimacy that has become global in scope.
15. Guernica Written With the Hands and Hearts of Children
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009   Published: 20009
    The keynote speaker at the launch of the exhibition Gaza's childrens' paintings, referred to the paintings as “a toxic cargo of beautiful but unwelcome images which it is necessary that we see and acknowledge.” Toxic because the blockade and assault on Gaza was, and is, toxic. Toxic because the paintings mirror back to our adult world the poisonous environment we have watched develop for these children. The paintings describe aerial bombardment of apartment blocks, mosques, schools, hospitals, ambulances. They portray phosphorous, helicopter and drone attacks on civilians. Gunboats fire inland from the sea. Bulldozers demolish homes. Everything happens in an enclosed space from which there is no escape.
16. Guillotining Gaza
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Noam Chomsky briefly depicts the many factors which prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and promote ongoing conflict in the region.
17. Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
    
18. Helping the occupation bloom: An open letter to Cargoflora
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Flowers from illegally occupied Palestinian land are being shipped to Europe.
19. How Israel Created Its Monster
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    How and why Israel helped Hamas to power.
20. How Israel Silenced its Gaza War Protesters
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A new report from Adalah shows how the courts and police attempted to stamp out opposition to Operation Cast Lead.
21. How Many Divisions?
    Israel is losing this war
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    In this war, as in any modern war, propaganda plays a major role. The disparity between the forces, between the Israeli army - with its airplanes, gunships, drones, warships, artillery and tanks - and the few thousand lightly armed Hamas fighters, is one to a thousand, perhaps one to a million. In the political arena the gap between them is even wider. But in the propaganda war, the gap is almost infinite.
22. Independent Groups Debunk Israeli War Propaganda
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    As the Israelis try to justify the massive loss of civilian life in Gaza, their arguments and counter-charges continue to be shot down either by the United Nations or by international human rights organizations.
23. International Middle East Media Center
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Media center developed in collaboration between Palestinian and International journalists to provide English language media coverage of Israel-Palestine.
24. An Interview with Tanya Reinhart
    The Roadmap to Nowhere
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Persistent struggle can have an effect, and can lead governments to act. Such struggle begins with the Palestinian people, who have withstood years of brutal oppression, and who, through their spirit of zumud--sticking to their land - and daily endurance, organizing and resistance, have managed to keep the Palestinian cause alive
25. The Iron Cage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    
26. Is the UN complicit in Israel's massacre in Gaza?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A friend forwarded to me the most original greeting for the New Year: "I wish in 2009 a horrible year for all war criminals and their accomplices." I could not but think of whether some United Nations officials can be counted among such "accomplices."
27. Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch says.
28. Israel and US apologists rattled by UN report on war crimes in Gaza
    The “democracy” that can do no wrong
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Paul J. Balles considers the “lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia” inherent in the hypocritical reactions of Israeli officials, and of Israel’s apologists in the United States, to the UN report on war crimes in Gaza.
29. Israel in Gaza: A Critical Reframing 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The critical reframing we offer, that of Israelis committed to human rights, international law and a just peace as the only way out of this interminable and bloody conflict, argues that security cannot be achieved unilaterally while one side oppresses the other and that Israel’s attack on Gaza is merely another attempt to render its Occupation permanent by destroying any source of effective resistance.
30. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
31. Israeli minister threatens "holocaust" as public demand ceasefire talks
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Israel's deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai has threatened Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip with a "holocaust." The comments came a day after Israeli occupation forces killed 31 Palestinians, nine of them children, one a six-month-old baby, in a series of air raids across the Gaza Strip.
    
32. Israel’s appalling bombing of Gaza
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Destroying the only power source for a trapped and defenseless civilian population is an unprecedented step toward barbarity. It reeks, ironically, of the Warsaw Ghetto.
33. Israel’s Colonial War against the Gaza Strip
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israel is becoming a war machine, terrifying yet lacking in all moral grounding.
34. Israel's Crimes, America's Silence
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    To date, too little mention has been made of investigations that show there is sufficient evidence to bring charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Israel's political and military leadership for their actions in Gaza. Recently, two comprehensive independent reports have been published on Gaza, and earlier this month a mission mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, and chaired by South African Richard Goldstone, visited Gaza to conduct a further investigation into Israel's offensive....
35. Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
36. Jewish Voice for Peace
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A diverse and democratic community of activists inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, and human rights. Supports the aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians for security and self-determination.
37. Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A group of Jewish-Canadian women occupied the Israeli Consulate in Toronto in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
    See a video at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0zFRg0kRU
38. Justice in the News: A Response to the targetting of media in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A mission to Gaza found that media were subject to intimidation and direct military assault and deliberately prevented from working freely. The findings confirm evidence of frequent targeting of media during the operations.
39. Lawyers in EU draw up list of alleged IDF war criminals
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Lawyers in a number of European countries are collecting information on Israeli soldiers who are implicated in war crimes.
40. The lying silence of those who know
    Holocaust Denied
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    In every war, Israel has had the same objective: the expulsion of the native people and the theft or more and more land.
41. NGO Reports on Gaza War Belie Israeli Claims
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    This week, two respected human rights organisations - one Palestinian, one Israeli - each came out with very full reports into the extent of the damage caused by the assault Israel waged against Gaza last winter.
42. Occupation 101
    Voices of the Silenced Majority
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2007
    A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    
43. Olive oil, opposition and Gaza
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Rick Salutin writes about increasingly widespread Jewish opposition to Israel’s actions.
44. Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
45. Palestine Chronicle
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An independent online newspaper that provides daily news, commentary, features and book reviews on a variety of subjects, yet is largely focused on Palestine, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Middle East as a whole. The Palestine Chronicle team consists of professional journalists and respected writers and authors who don't speak on behalf of any political party or champion any specific political agenda.
46. Palestine Media Watch
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    PMWATCH was established to promote fair and accurate coverage of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the US mainstream media. In broad terms, our mission is two-fold: (1) identify, report on, and protest clear journalistic failures by the US media in covering the conflict, and (2) help media outlets with access to pro-Palestinian points of view and voices for interviews, op-eds, or background discussions, whether here in the United States, in Israel, or in the Occupied Territories. Includes tools and suggestions for action on media bias.
47. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Former U.S. President Carter calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians 'apartheid' and identifies continuing Israeli control of the occupied territories as the primary obstacle to peace.
48. Pro-Israel stance reeks of double standards and historical amnesia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Israel bombs, terrorizes and kills as it pleases, on a daily basis, and the media praise it for its restraint.
49. Pro-Israel Lobby Alarmed by Growth of Boycott, Divestment Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel is emerging as one of the most important ways to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine.
50. Radical Digressions 6
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2009
    
51. A Reply to B’nai Brith’s Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario’s Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
52. Rockets from Gaza
    Harm to Civilians from Palestinian Armed Groups’ Rocket Attacks
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Documents rocket attacks on Israeli civilians by armed groups in Gaza.
53. Self-Defense Against Peace
    Israel's Unjust War on Gaza
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Legally and morally, an aggressor cannot rely upon self-defence to justify violence against resistance to its own aggression. The most plausible reason Israel is fighting Hamas (and the PLO before it) is 'self-defence', not against rockets and mortars, but against having to make peace with the Palestinians on the basis of the pre-1967 borders as required by international law.
54. Steel walls cannot contain the struggle for freedom
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    If siege is an act of aggression and war, then breaking out of it by any means is an act of self-defense and resistance.
55. Stop That Shit
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Whoever longs for a solution must know: there is no solution without settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
56. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
57. Treading the Borders Between Life and Death
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    During Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in December 2008 – January 2009, Israeli forces killed 16 emergency medical staff and injured 57. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), perhaps hundreds of those killed could have survived if emergency services had been able to access them promptly—the access denied to them can be defined as a deliberate violation of the Geneva Conventions and therefore a war crime.
58. U.N. Team on War Crimes Condemns Israel, Hamas
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A four-member United Nations fact-finding mission, which has just concluded an investigation into last year's brutal conflict in Gaza, makes a strong case for war crimes charges against Israel for its unrelenting 22-day military attacks on Palestinians, largely civilians, including women and children.
59. Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Designed to inform those who are somewhat unfamiliar with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Written in question and answer format
60. Voices for Palestine
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Arab women from Jordan who came together in response to Israel's attack on Gaza and its people.
61. The War Isn’t Over, But Israel Has Lost
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The Israelis – and their backers in the American political establishment – appear incapable of grasping that which is empirically obvious: Hamas and its ilk grow stronger every time Israel seeks to eliminate them by force.
62. We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to Gaza.
63. Why Is Israel Killing Gazans?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    
64. Why Israel Won't Survive
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    If there was ever a moment when the peoples of the region would accept Israel as a Zionist state in their midst, that has passed forever. Israel's "military deterrent" has now been repeatedly discredited as a means to force Palestinians and other Arabs to accept Zionist supremacy as inevitable and permanent. Now, the other pillar of Israeli power – Western support and complicity – is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.
65. Why Israeli Leaders Love Qassam Rockets
    A Reply to Michael Neumann
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israeli leaders want Jews to believe that they are surrounded by violent anti-Semites. This is how the billionaires and generals and politicians who rule over the Israeli population get away with what they are doing: getting richer and more powerful while driving the rest of the population down economically. They need the Israeli population to believe that the rulers of Israel are protecting Jews from the "real enemy"--violent anti-Semitic Arabs. To make sure the "real enemy" remains credible, non-combatant Jews must die at the hands of apparent anti-Semites.
66. Words have failed
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation.

Experts on Gaza Strip in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Library/Archive
2. Electronic Intifada
3. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
4. Zatoun