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Egypt has closed the Rafah crossing in Gaza following an attack in the Sinai last week.
(Eyad Al Baba / APA images)“The only party that is benefiting from the attack is Israel.” - Rana Baker, on this week’s podcast
This week on The Electronic Intifada podcast:
- Our correspondent Rana Baker assesses the situation in Gaza, once again sealed at the border following the recent attacks on Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai peninsula – for which Palestinians are being blamed and punished by the Egyptian authorities;
- Rampant power cuts in Gaza leave Palestinians in the dark during Ramadan;
- Gaza mourns the mother of a detainee who passed away while on the bus traveling to see her son after six years of Israel’s imposition of a family visitation ban;
- Palestinian prisoner Hassan Safadi still on hunger strike after Israel breaks yet another deal to free him; meanwhile, Bilal Diab and female prisoner Woroud Qasem were released from Israeli jails back to their homes in the West Bank;
- Why the bubble in the foreign-aid dependent West Bank economy is about to burst;
- Bogus charges of anti-Semitism create a real climate of fear for Arab and Muslim students in the US;
- A concert promoter who raised money for the Israeli army will hold a Lollapalooza music festival on the ruins of a Palestinian village next year;
- And a British energy firm ditches occupation profiteer and private security giant G4S.
