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Herodotus names and describes several coastal places now identified as Gaza, Ashkelon and Tyre (often under Greek forms like Cadytis or Jenysus), situating them in a coastal district he calls “Palesti...
Evidence for Greek travel to Palestine during Herodotus’s lifetime (mid-5th century BCE) is indirect and mixed: classical texts like Herodotus describe the Levant and suggest Greek knowledge or contac...
show substantial genetic continuity with and : genome-wide studies model large fractions of contemporary Levantine ancestry as deriving from Bronze‑Age “Canaanite”–like and Iron‑Age local groups, with...
The Israeli government publicly framed the Sumud Gaza flotilla as tied to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood and repeatedly rejected attempts to breach its naval blockade, issuing diplomatic and securit...
Reporting across the sampled sources does not provide a definitive list of *specific items seized by the IDF from the flotillas*; multiple outlets state that humanitarian aid was aboard and that the I...
There have been multiple investigations and reports into Israel’s interception of Gaza-bound flotillas, but their conclusions , leaving legal and factual questions unresolved. UN-led inquiries from th...
The reporting available in late September 2025 shows for Gaza-bound flotillas; Israeli officials repeatedly proposed unloading and inspecting cargo at Ashkelon instead, while flotilla organizers rejec...
Israel’s blockade and restrictions on crossings and maritime transfers have sharply limited the volume and routes by which aid reaches Gaza, producing widespread shortages of food, fuel, medicines and...