But last night Egypt's foreign minister dismissed a US-Israeli agreement aimed at cutting off weapons smuggling into the Gaza Strip, raising questions about how effective it would be in preventing arms from reaching Hamas.
Even some of the most provocative statements in the last scene: "Tell her they don't understand anything but violence," or "Tell her you can't believe what you see on television" are routinely made by Israeli politicians – the last by Mark Regev, Olmert's spokesman, during the Gaza offensive when questioned about Palestinian casualties by Jon Snow.
Nevertheless, with the challenges of 'reporting Gaza' being apparent, the question remains, 'why would one choose to be a Palestinian journalist in the Gaza Strip?'.
Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, a spokeswoman for the Israeli military, said Israeli forces had also gone to extraordinary lengths to warn civilians during the Gaza offensive, and she questioned the credibility of some of the Palestinian witnesses cited by the advocacy group.
Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip continued today to question the value of a cease-fire.
U.N. satellite imagery of several neighborhoods before and after shelling raises the question: How is Gaza going to rebuild this devastated landscape?
These include families from Turkey, Guatemala, Iran, and Scotland and a second family from Gaza of probable Jordanian origin (Gaza B), listed in Table 1 together with the original Gaza family (Gaza A) and the Kosovan sib pair.
That raises questions on whether Gaza even forms a state along with the West Bank.
An hour after landing he was being mobbed at a news conference in the city, fielding questions about the Gaza crisis and Scottish independence.
Security has become even more of a paramount issue after the Gaza offensive, along with the larger question of negotiations with the Palestinians.
