Category: Gaza Strip

Palestinian media sources have reported that two Gaza merchants have been kidnapped, on Wednesday, in the Eretz Israeli terminal, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.The WAFA News…

Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Wednesday at dawn, on a number of small Palestinian fishing boats in Palestinian waters, near the Sudaniyya area, northwest of the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses…

Months after the last massive Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, thanks to the social and independent media, everyone has read news and seen pictures of the attacks from the…

The Israeli navy Sunday targeted Palestinian fishermen with gunfire while they were sailing offshore the city of Gaza, according to a WAFA correspondent.He said the navy fired heavy gunfire towards…

Israeli forces opened fire on dozens of protesters marching on the eastern border of the Gaza Strip near Khan Younis on Sunday.Witnesses said that Israeli forces opened fired on the…

The Israeli Army Saturday opened machine gunfire and launched a missile toward Palestinian agricultural land along the eastern Gaza borders, according to WAFA correspondence.A loud explosion and the sound of…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Friday evening, that three Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation after Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs, and live rounds, targeting farmers in…

Israeli occupation forces, Monday morning, opened fire towards Palestinian farmers and agricultural lands east of the central Gaza Strip.Witnesses told Safa news agency that Israeli soldiers and military vehicles that…

Israeli occupation forces, Sunday morning, launched military drills in the areas surrounding Gaza, without any previous warning.The drill contains active movement of military machines and warplanes, according to the PNN,…

The United Nations Palestine refugee agency UNRWA, on Sunday, inaugurated the first school associated with the organization to be built in the Gaza Strip since Israel’s summer assault laid waste…

Four Israeli bulldozers and a military vehicle entered Palestinian land near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday, witnesses told Ma’an News Agency.The incident marks the continuation of high…

Israeli navy ships attacked, on Thursday morning, a number of fishing boats in Palestinian waters near Gaza City, and fired rounds of live ammunition at them. The Palestinian News &…

Tilling the land in Gaza is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. The Zionist Occupation Forces fire on the peasants and their families while they sow or…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has revealed a sharp increase in the number of registered cases of cancer, of various types, where the infection rate in the last three years…

The Egyptian army demolished 1,020 houses in the border city of Rafah as part of the second stage of the establishment of a buffer zone along the border with the…

Israeli soldiers, stationed on military towers across the border with the Gaza Strip, fired on Tuesday morning, several rounds of live ammunition on homes and lands, in border areas of…

Israeli soldiers, stationed on military towers across the border fence with the Gaza Strip, fired on Tuesday morning, several rounds of live ammunition on homes and lands, in border areas…

Cindy and Craig Corrie, the parents of the late U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed at age 23 by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza, released a statement Monday…

Israeli soldiers, stationed across the border fence, fired on Monday morning rounds of live ammunition at Palestinian homes, and farmlands, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the…

Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Saturday at dawn, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Palestinian waters, in the Sudaniyya Sea area, northwest of Gaza City.The fishers said…

Israeli forces, Thursday evening, opened fire at Palestinians on land east of the city of Khuzaa, in the southern Gaza Strip.Witnesses told Ma’an News Agency that Israeli soldiers deployed at…

Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Thursday morning, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters, in the Sudaniyya Sea area, northwest of Gaza City.Local fishers said…

Several armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers carried out, on Wednesday morning, a limited invasion into an area east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza, and bulldozed farmlands.Eyewitnesses…

Walla Israeli website said, Monday, that Hamas has recently sent a series of letters to Israeli occupation authorities, offering a long-term ceasefire which would last for at least 5 years,…

On International Women’s Day, Women’s Suffering Doubled and Unprecedented Due to Consequences of the Israeli Offensive on the Gaza Strip.The 8th of March is the day proclaimed by the international…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a resident was injured, on Saturday evening, when an explosive object dropped by the Israeli military during a previous invasion, detonated near him.Spokesperson of…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a fisher who was shot and injured by Israeli navy fire, earlier Saturday, died of his wounds in the Shifa Medical Center, in Gaza,…

Israeli navy boats opened fire, on Saturday at dawn, at Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters, moderately wounding one fisher, and kidnapped two others.Ziad ‘Ayyash, head of the Palestinian…

Israeli forces deployed on the border east of Khan Younis opened fire at Palestinians on Friday.Witnesses reported that shots were fired towards Palestinians on their agricultural lands in eastern al-Qarrara,…

The only power plant in the Gaza Strip is set to resume operations after a fuel delivery, in Friday, Palestinian officials said.The Kerem Shalom crossing will be opened as an…

The Gaza Strip’s sole power plant was shut down, Wednesday evening, as Qatari-donated fuel supplies finally ran out, a Gaza power authority said.’The power plant stopped producing electricity during the…

Israeli soldiers, stationed across the border fence east of Gaza city, fired several smoke bombs and rounds of live ammunition, targeting Palestinian homes and agricultural lands.The Palestinian News & Info…

Israeli navy vessels attacked, on Thursday morning, a number of Palestinian fishing boats, wounding two fishers by live rounds, and kidnapped four others, in Palestinian waters near the Sudaniyya area,…

Four armored Israeli military bulldozers, and a tank, invaded on Tuesday morning, an area east of the Rafah district, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and headed towards…

Israeli navy boats fired, on Wednesday morning, rounds of live ammunition on a number of Palestinian fishing boats, in territorial waters in the Sudaniyya area, northwest of Gaza City. Eyewitnesses…

Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinian farmers, Tuesday, as they were trying to access their borderline farmlands to the east of Gaza City, according to WAFA correspondence.Israeli soldiers, stationed in…

Israeli soldiers fired, on Monday morning, rounds of live ammunition targeting a number of Palestinian farmers, in their own lands, east of Gaza City.Eyewitnesses said the soldiers, stationed on military…

Israeli gunboats again opened fire, Monday morning, towards fishermen’s boats in the Gaza Strip, this time off the coasts of Sudaniyya and Khan Younis.Safa correspondence, according to Al Ray, said…

Gaza’s only power plant is due to shut down by the end of this week, as donor funding for fuel in the coastal territory has run out, according to officials.The…

The Israeli navy, Saturday, again opened machine gun fire on Palestinian fishermen offshore the al-Sudaniya, to the northwest of Gaza.According to WAFA correspondence, Israeli naval boats indiscriminately opened heavy gunfire…

17-year-old Muhammad Asri Fayyad, from the northern occupied West Bank, says he was violently assaulted by Israeli soldiers at al-Jalama crossing, north of Jenin, while trying to cross into Israel.The…

One man was killed and his brother wounded, Saturday afternoon, as a result of the explosion of a suspicious object in the airport area east of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.According…

British rights organization, Oxfam, stated that the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip may take more than 100 years, at the current rate, to complete essential building of homes, schools and…

Chris Gunness, spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), discusses the causes and consequences of the fact that only about…

Israeli forces, Thursday afternoon, opened gunfire on Palestinian houses in the central Gaza Strip, according to WAFA correspondence.Soldiers deployed and stationed along the border to the east of the blockaded…

British street-artist Banksy has posted, on his YouTube channel and website, a video with images from his last trip to the Gaza Strip, where he painted four new graffiti pieces.According…

Israeli forces opened fire at farmers in the central Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, according to witnesses.Locals told Ma’an News Agency that soldiers stationed in military towers on the border, east…

Senior Israeli defense correspondent Alon Ben-David, Monday, warned of the consequences of keeping a firm grip on Gaza, noting that it will blow up in Israel’s face not Egypt’s. Meanwhile,…

UNRWA stated, on Sunday, that US $100 million in aid is urgently needed for families affected by the last Israeli offensive in the region, this past summer.The money is needed…

Gaza police, on Friday, arrested two individuals who allegedly planted an explosive device in front of the al-Quds Open University, in the northern Gaza Strip.According to Ma’an News Agency, spokesperson…

The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, said one of its fighters was killed “during preparation and training” in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is concerned over the series of incidents of security chaos and assaults on the rule of law that have recently occurred in the…

Israeli soldiers, stationed on military towers across the border fence, opened fire on Tuesday evening, on Palestinian farmers and their lands, east of the al-Maghazi, in central Gaza.Eyewitnesses said the…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Tuesday evening, that three children were injured when an explosive object dropped by the army during the offensive on Gaza last summer, detonated near…

Israeli forces opened fire, on Tuesday morning, towards Palestinian shepherds near the cemetery in Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip, while Israeli gunboats targeted fishing boats in Khan Younis, last…

Israeli soldiers, stationed across the border fence on the eastern border with Gaza city, fired on Tuesday morning rounds of live ammunition, and one shell, targeting a number of farmlands…

A number of US foundations in Gaza, this morning, closed their gates before an activist movement which stood in protest of the killing of two Palestinian girls in North Carolina,…

Gaza is in desperate need of power. One organization hopes to bring clean, renewable energy to Gaza with the installation of solar panels.Over the past few months an international team…

In an investigation conducted by Associated Press, it was revealed that 89% of victims killed in the Israeli offensive conducted in Gaza, this past summer, were civilians. Al Ray Palestinian…

Israeli soldiers opened fire, on Friday morning, on a number of Palestinian homes, east of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian News & Info…

The failed reconstruction process in the Gaza Strip is inextricably linked to Israel’s ongoing seige of the coastal enclave. The UN announcement last month that unfulfilled donor pledges mean it…

Israeli forces opened fire on a march east of Gaza City, on Monday, held in protest of delays to the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip following Israel’s devastating military offensive…

Israeli warplanes, Monday, carried out mock air raids in a limited incursion over Gaza skies, while Israeli navy gunboats opened fire at fishermen off the Gaza shore, according to WAFA…

UNRWA announced, Thursday, that it had begun distributing its 2015 emergency food assistance to needy refugee families in the Gaza Strip.According to WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency, UNRWA revealed,…

Israeli forces Wednesday opened gunfire at Palestinian farmers as they were farming their borderline farmlands to the east of Khan Younes, according to WAFA correspondence.Soldiers, stationed in military watchtowers and…

Israeli Navy ships opened fire, on Tuesday at dawn, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters, in Rafah, in the southern part of the coastal region.The…

Israeli authorities opened Kerem Shalom trade crossing on Monday, to allow the entry of 560 truckloads of goods and fuel to the Gaza Strip.Chairman of the Coordination Committee for the…

Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Monday at dawn, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats near the Sudaniyya shore, northwest of Gaza city. Eyewitnesses said one of the navy…

Israeli soldiers opened fire in the direction of Palestinian protesters marching near the border fence in the Gaza Strip, on Sunday.A spokesman for Gaza’s Committee to Break the Siege, Adham…

A 9-year-old Palestinian boy named Zaid has died, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, after Egypt and Israel refused to open the Rafah border crossing to allow him to…

The Israeli army kidnapped, on Friday evening, three Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, claiming that the three men infiltrated into an area in the Eshkol Regional Council of Settlements.The army…

Israeli Navy ships attacked, on Thursday morning, a number of Palestinian fishing boats in the Sudaniyya Sea, northwest of Gaza City, opened fire on them and forced them back to…

Israeli troops stationed across the borders with the Gaza Strip opened fire, Wednesday morning, at Palestinian fields east of Khan Younis.Witnesses said, according to Ma’an, that the Israeli soldiers fired…

Palestinians angry at their deterorating living conditions in the Gaza Strip stormed the United Nations headquarters to protest UNRWA’s announcement to suspend its cash assistance program for the homeless families.Anadolu…

PCHR Calls for Immediate Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty as a Form of Punishment in the occupied Palestinian territories.The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) renews its…

Israeli forces, Tuesday morning, fired at Palestinian agricultural lands across the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, witnesses said.Witnesses told Ma’an News Agency that several Israeli military vehicles stationed…

The Palestinian Commission Of Detainees in Gaza City has reported that unknown assailants burned its main office, before dawn on Tuesday, and that some of its computers were stolen.The Commission…

Gaza, 27 January 2015: UNRWA has been forced to suspend its cash assistance programme in Gaza to tens of thousands of people for repairs to damaged and destroyed homes and…

A Palestinian fishing boat drowned, on Monday evening, after Israeli navy ships fired rounds of live ammunition at it in Palestinian waters, west of Gaza city. The soldiers also kidnapped…

Israeli navy soldiers, Monday, targeted Palestinian fishing boats with a hail of gunfire offshore al-Sudanyeh, northwest of Gaza, according to WAFA correspondence.An Israeli navy gunboat chased after Palestinian-owned fishing boats,…

Rafah crossing has been sealed for a total of 241 days during 2014, and opened for only 125, the Border and Crossing Authority reported Sunday.According to Al Ray Palestinian Media…

Israeli fighter jets engaged in mock raids over Gaza City, Sunday morning.PNN reports that, according to press sources, Israeli F-16 warplanes flew through the atmosphere of the sector in the…

A new report has found that Israel’s indiscriminate military offensive during its latest war on the besieged Gaza Strip, this past summer, caused more civilian casualties than previous acts of…

Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Thursday at dawn, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in the Sudaniyya Sea, northwest of Gaza City, and forced the fishers back to…

Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian fisherman in Gaza on Wednesday, according to the head of a local union said.Nizar Ayyash told Ma’an News Agency that Atef Muhammad Baker,…

Emoprog Army Radio Hour podcast interviews Dan Cohen, a journalist reporting from Gaza. They discuss how terrible weather in Gaza right now is complicating life for people already living in…

Israeli gunboats, on Tuesday, opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats offshore al-Sudaniyya area, northwest of the city of Gaza, in a continued breach of a truce agreement reached on August…

A 24-year old Palestinian farmer was wounded in the foot by Israeli forces stationed at a watchtower along the Israeli border with Gaza while the farmer was tending his field.The…

Israeli soldiers fired, on Thursday morning, rounds of live ammunition at Palestinian farmers in the eastern area of the Khan Younis District, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip,…

The Israeli army, on Wednesday, again opened live fire on farmlands in the Gaza Strip, WAFA and Anadolu Agency reported.Soldiers stationed along the border to the east of Rafah opened…

Israeli forces, on Tuesday, opened fire at Palestinian farmers and bird hunters east of Khan Younis, said witnesses.Soldiers were deployed in vehicles along the border fence in the al-Fakhari area,…

After three infant deaths as a result of severe winter weather in the Gaza Strip, one and a half year-old Fadi Qudeih passed away on Tuesday, in a caravan house…

Egyptian authorities informed Palestinian officials in Gaza that they will not be reopening the Rafah crossing for three days on Tuesday, as previously promised, after an Egyptian solider was kidnapped…

Another Palestinian infant died from the cold on Saturday, as well as a fisherman on the Gaza coast. This brings the death toll up to four in the last two…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that an Infant died, Saturday, due to extreme cold in the war-torn, besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip. The infant’s death is the second in two…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that an infant died in southern Gaza, due to freezing temperature as dozens of homes have been flooded as a result of pouring rain.The…

Israeli soldiers, stationed on across the border fence, opened fire on Thursday evening targeting Palestinian homes and lands east of the Khan Younis district, in the southern part of the…

Israeli Navy boats opened fire, on Saturday at dawn, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats, in Gaza waters in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, seriously…

Egyptian military forces, late Friday, shot and killed a Palestinian child at the Rafah border between Egypt and Gaza.Witnesses told Ma’an News Agency that Egyptian soldiers opened fire at four…

A recently released video of a speech made by Deputy Knesset Speaker Moshe Feiglin, in July of this year, shows Feiglin calling for an Israeli sponsored bloodbath in Gaza, according…