"THE NEWS"

• Washington Post
  Around the World: UNITED NATIONS - World Food Program Targets 16 Needy Spots, from News Services (13 August 2008) - the UN has included the Palestinian occupied territories amongst the most neediest spots for food assistance.
• Washington Post
  Not just guns: Gazans smuggle lions into zoo, by Diaa Hadid, Associated Press (8 August 2008).
• Washington Post
  Gazans line up outside banks as cash runs out, by Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press (11 August 2008) - describes impact of Israeli blockade on Gaza money supply to civilians.
• Washington Post: Scholars' Visas Revoked (5 August 2008).
  These visas were for 3 Gazan scholars who Israel did not change its mind about. One other was under another program, and 4 others got through and were allowed to leave.
• Washington Post
  U.S. revokes Palestinian scholarship students' visas, by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters (5 August 2008).
• Chicago Tribune
  US revokes visas for Palestinian Fulbright scholars from Gaza
  Washington Post:
  US nixes visas for Gaza Fulbrighters
  both articles by Matthew Lee, Associated Press (4 August 2008).
• Kansas City Star: Palestinians unfairly hit by Israeli policy in Gaza, by Yaser Wishah (4 August 2008).
  American-Palestinian Yaser Wishah describes his direct experience of Israeli collective punishment while visiting Gaza last year, as well as many of the general features of the Israeli blockade which punish many Gaza residents who are uninvolved with the struggle with Hamas.

• Miami Herald,
  Washington Post:
  Sewage glut - another ugly result of Gaza's wars (6 July 2008),
  Philadelphia Inquirer Gaza City sewage system taking toll on Mediterranean (7 July 2008),
  San Francisco Chronicle - Ugly result of Gaza wars - sewage in Mediterranean (7 July 2008),
  these articles by Diaa Hadid, Associated Press.
• New York Times: Strengthening Extremists, by Nicholas D. Kristof (19 June 2008).
  This op-ed describes how the Gaza blockade by Israel is an example of collective punishment, and how it has backfired because it has empowered Hamas by making it look like the victim, which has hurt Palestinian moderates, Israel and the USA. And the article gives other examples as well.

• New York Times: A Year Reshapes Hamas and Gaza, by Ethan Bronner (15 June 2008).
  This article describes how Hamas rule over Gaza has made Gaza more efficient (but not easier to live in mostly due to the Israeli blockade), and how rule has changed Hamas (made it more practical and strengthened its internal moderates who are more open to living next to Israel if Israel gives in on certain points). The article also describes how Israel's blockade (collective punishment) has not worked in its goal to weaken Hamas.

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Gaza sewage crisis threatens Israel as waste flows north , by Robert W. Gee (25 May 2008).
  This article describes an example of Israeli collective punishment that backfires.

• Boston Globe
  Power reduced in Gaza City as Hamas shuts plant, by Ibrahim Barzak and Diaa Hadid, Associated Press (12 May 2008).

"ONLINE REPORTS"

• COHRE - House demolitions in occupied East Jerusalem (15 July 2008) - "COHRE calls on Israel to cease carrying out the demolition of homes as a means of collective punishment in violation of international law. COHRE is particularly concerned by recent statements made by high ranking Israeli officials that the demolition of homes of the families of suspected terrorists in East Jerusalem is permissible by law, when the opposite is true".
• Human Rights Watch - Gaza: Israel’s Energy Cuts Violate Laws of War - Attacks by Palestinian Armed Groups No Excuse for Collective Punishment (7 February 2008).
• Amnesty International - Statement on Gaza - condemns Israel for commission of Collective Punishment in Gaza (21 January 2008)
• Adalah - SPECIAL REPORT: Gaza Fuel and Electricity (a case of collective punishment).
• Human Rights Watch - Statement on Gaza - accuses Israel of commission of the crime of Collective Punishment in Gaza (29 October 2007)

"OFFLINE REFERENCE MATERIALS"