Guide: Gaza Under Blockade ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bbc News by Heather Sharp - (Analysis) August 11, 2008 - 4:38pm   The Gaza Strip has been under an Israeli blockade since the militant group Hamas seized control in June 2007. What gets in and out of Gaza, what has been the impact of the restrictions, and what has changed since the truce between Israel and Hamas in June 2008? OVERVIEW For the past year, Gaza's 1.5m people have been relying on, on average, less than a fifth of the volume of imported supplies they received in December 2005. Some weeks significantly less than that has arrived.   » Read more

Palestinians Doubt Two-state Deal ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bbc News August 11, 2008 - 4:26pm Israel's strategy in negotiations could force the Palestinians to abandon their goal of a two-state solution, a top Palestinian negotiator says. Ahmed Qurei says they may instead seek a binational solution, that is a single state for Israelis and Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Israel fears such a this would spell the end of the Jewish majority state. Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza in 1967. Its negotiators have always resisted full withdrawal from them. » Read more

Darwish, Poet Of The Palestinian Cause, Dies After Surgery ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Independent by Mohammed Assadi - August 11, 2008 - 4:23pm Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, is to get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank following his death this weekend – an honour only previously accorded to the PLO leader Yasser Arafat. Tributes for Darwish poured in yesterday, a day after he died, at the age of 67, from complications following heart surgery in a hospital in Houston, Texas. » Read more