Students in Gaza will soon have the option of taking Hebrew classes for the first time in nearly two decades.

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Gaza Journal: Hamas-Run Schools in Gaza Set Out to Teach Hebrew

The Israeli military closes an investigation into the killing of 21 members of an extended Palestinian family during its offensive on Gaza in 2009.

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Three prisoners, including one accused of collaborating with Israel, have been hanged in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

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Fuel from Israel arrives in the Gaza Strip as a result of a deal between the territory’s Hamas-led government and the rival Palestinian Authority.

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Fuel arrives in Gaza after deal

A Palestinian woman held in detention in Israel, Hana Shalabi, is ending her 43-day hunger strike after a deal under which she will be exiled to Gaza.

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Egypt starts supplying fuel to the Gaza Strip today to help ease the territory’s worst fuel crisis in years.

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While Gongaza loses to Ohio State.

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Syracuse Beats Kansas State

After rockets fired into Israel from Gaza.

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Israeli Air Strikes Kill 16

JERUSALEM — An escalation of cross-border violence continued for the second day on Saturday, as the death toll from Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip rose to 14 militants and militant factions fired dozens more rockets into southern Israel. Read full article > >

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2011 was an unforgettable year with the rise of the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movements challenging the corporate world and a general overall social consciousness. Architects , too, learned that it is our responsibility to design in such a way to enhance and impact some of the world’s urgent concerns: poverty, climate change, unemployment, energy crises and education. With community’s no longer willing to accept the status quo, as we’ve seen in many parts of the world with successful protests, education is a key component for the mass majority. Education has always been a right and architecture has played a vital role in creating school buildings, which have become a teaching tool for urban sprawl in a poverty setting, have responded to climate change, sustainability, energy crises and preservation of culture and heritage. For example, the Children Academy in Haiti, the Boarding School for Girls in India, the Bamboo School in Liberia and The United Nations Relief and Works Agency Zero Carbon Gas Schools in Gaza Palestine, are all exemplary projects that can be set a new standard for architectural education.

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2011: A Year of Change

An Israeli air strike to the east of Gaza City killed the leader of an Islamic militant group, the Israeli military says.

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Converts to the urban sport of parkour, young Palestinians practice how to run for their lives in a Gaza cemetery.

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T Magazine: The Graveyard Shift

JERUSALEM — At a museum just off the desert road from Jerusalem to Jericho in the West Bank, the artifacts of a contested heritage are on display. Colorful mosaic floors from Byzantine-era churches and synagogues, inscriptions, Roman capitals and stone burial boxes — all dug up by Israeli archaeologists in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip — are shown at the site, developed by Israel’s West Bank military administration with the Israeli antiquities authority. Read full article > >

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In the West Bank, a contested heritage

JERUSALEM — Israel’s navy boarded two small protest boats trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip on Friday and towed them to an Israeli port just north of the Palestinian territory, officials said. The military said no one was hurt. Troops boarded the boats without incident after repeated calls for them to turn around were ignored, the military said. Read full article > >

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The Israeli navy intercepts and boards two boats carrying activists and medical supplies as they attempt to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip.

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