Focus on Gaza - Care for collaboration

Israel's intensive strike on Gaza earlier this year, left many residents in need of urgent medical treatment - treatment that simply is not available in the Gaza Strip. Many attempt to leave, journeying to the Erez Crossing in the hope of making their way to Jerusalem for treatment. However, recent data collected by the group Physicians for Human Rights - Israel, alleges that Israeli security forces are denying Gazans urgent medical care unless they agree to become collaborators. Focus on Gaza reports.
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Focus on Gaza - Gaza's economic crisis

The Israeli siege is strangling Gaza's economy, and many of the businesses that were managing to scrape by were destroyed by the recent war. A look into the economic consequeces of Israel's blockade and the war on Gaza.

Focus on Gaza - Factional violence

A revealing new report reveals increasing factional violence between Hamas and Fatah. Gazans speak out as reports that they are being used as Israeli informants come out. And with further Jewish settlement expansion in East jerusalem we speak to one family standing firm

Focus on Gaza - Al Durra special

In the wake of the recent war on Gaza and casualties we visit the Al Durra Family in Gaza to find out how they have coped over the years; and to understand how the pain of loss and bereavement continues, long after the guns cease firing.

Israel Shameless & Deluded

Focus on Gaza - White Phosphorous

In this week's show we hear how Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes for it's unlawful use of white phosphorous. Mike Kirsch a town in the US where white phosphorous is manufactured and shows locals the true human cost of the weapon.

Survivors of the war in Gaza take legal action and we meet a mother burnt by white phosphorous who tells her story.

Focus on Gaza - Faction Fighting

In this week's Focus On Gaza we look at two blows suffered by the Israeli army. Firstly a UN report which brands the recent Israeli war on Gaza as illegal.

Secondly the chilling accounts of a disregard for civilian safety from its own soldiers involved in the operation, published this week in a leading Israeli newspaper.

We also look at internal dischord among the Palestinian movement and the numerous factions involved.

In a special report our correspondent Hoda Abdel Hamid brings together two Gazan students one from each of the two opposing groups - living very different lives and separated by factional rivalry.

Our senior political analyst Marwan Bishara reveals the real chances of a unity government being negociated by the leaders of these factions in talks in Cairo.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it

Focus on Gaza - The Blockade

In this week's show we look at how the Israeli blockade continues to hinder life in Gaza.

We have an interview with George Galloway and feature a new campaign by an Israeli anti-blockade group.

Plus we follow one fishermen as he tries to provide food for his family.

Focus on Gaza - Rebuilding Gaza

Israel's war on Gaza left 4,000 homes destroyed and 17,000 damaged, not to mention a state infrastructure in ruins. The international community has pledged $5bn to fund reconstruction but the Israeli government will not allow even the most basic building materials to cross into Gaza. In this week's Focus on Gaza, correspondent Todd Baer reports on how this is hampering reconstruction efforts.