Army Opens Fire On Homes In Khan Younis
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…
“Gaza on Verge of Collapse”
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 Open Fire on Gaza Demonstration
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…
More Mock Raids over Gaza, Fishermen Targeted Offshore
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 2015 Gaza Food Assistance in Distribution
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 Continue to Fire on Gaza Farmers
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 Attack Palestinian Fishing Boats In Rafah
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…
560 Trucks with Goods and Fuel Allowed into Gaza
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 Attacks Fishing Boats In Gaza Waters
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…
Israelis Fire at Palestinian Protesters on Gaza Border
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…
Palestinian Child Dies after Egypt & Israel Refuse to Open Rafah Crossing
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…
Army Kidnaps Three Palestinians Near Gaza
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 Open Fire On Palestinian Fishing Boats
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 Forces Again Open Fire on Gaza Farmlands
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 Storm Gaza UN Headquarters over Suspension of Cash Assistance
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…
New Death Sentence Issued By Gaza Court
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 Troops Open Fire on Gaza Farmers
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…
Gaza Office of Palestinian Prisoners Committee Burned
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…
UNRWA Forced to Suspend Gaza Assistance Due to Lack of Funds
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…
Israeli Navy Sinks Palestinian Fishing Boat In Gaza, Kidnaps 4 Fishermen
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 Continues to Target Gaza Fishermen
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 Closed for Over Half of 2014
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 Jets Perform Faux Military Raids Over Gaza Skies
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…
Report: Summer Assault on Gaza Caused More Civilian Deaths
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 Opens Fire On Gaza Fishing Boats
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 Fire on Gaza Fishermen, Injuring One
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,…
Dan Cohen in Gaza
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 Navy Continues Attacks on Gaza Fishermen, Missiles Fired
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…
Palestinian farmer shot and injured by Israeli troops near Gaza border
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…
Soldiers Open Fire On Farmers In Gaza
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,…
Israeli Army Opens Fire in Gaza Farmlands
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 Soldiers Fire on Gaza Farmers and Bird Hunters
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,…
4th Infant Dies of Cold In Gaza Caravan House
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…
Rafah Crossing to Remain Closed After Sinai Kidnapping
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…
Third Infant, Man Die In Winter Storm In Gaza Saturday
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…
Another Infant Dies In Khan Younis As Cold Weather Continues
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…
Infant Dies As Pouring Rain Floods Devastated Gaza
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…
Homes, Lands, Targeted By Israeli Fire In Southern Gaza
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…
Palestinian Fisherman Seriously Injured By Israeli Navy Fire In Gaza
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…
Palestinian Child Killed by Egyptian Forces at Rafah Border
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…
Gaza: Feiglin says Invade, Keep It, And ‘Destroy All Who Fight Back’
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…
Israel Military Again Opens Fire on Gazans
Israeli naval forces, on Monday, again opened fire on Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the Gaza Strip, while forces elsewhere shot at a group of Palestinians near the border…
3 Injured by Israeli Fire in Gaza, Farmers Attacked near Khan Younis
Three Palestinians were injured, Sunday afternoon, after Israeli forces opened fire on protesters near Erez crossing, on the border with Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli border guards, stationed…
Palestinians Mark 6th Anniversary of ‘Operation Cast Lead’ (VIDEO)
Palestinians around the world, this Saturday, commemorated the sixth anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s 22-day military offensive on the Gaza Strip, between 2008 and 2009 that left more than…
Egypt to Demolish 1,200 Homes for Rafah Buffer Zone Expansion
An Egyptian committee has finished surveying the homes of residents living between 500 and 1,000 meters of the Gaza border, in preparation for extending the buffer zone to a width…
Israeli troops shoot Palestinian man in northern Gaza
A Palestinian man who was apparently attempting to cross the border from Gaza into Israel for work was shot by Israeli troops on Friday.Two workers were apparently attempting to cross…
Child Dies Of Wounds Suffered During Israel’s Aggression On Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported that a child died, on Thursday evening, of serious wounds suffered several months ago, in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, during…
Qassam Fighter Killed By Army Fire In Southern Gaza
The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, said one of its fighters was killed, and an Israeli soldier was injured, during clashes that took place after the…
Army Opens Fire On Gaza Farmers, Fishers
Israeli soldiers, stationed on military towers across the border, east of ‘Abasan town, east of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, opened fire on several farmers trying to…
Abu Marzouk: “Hamas Is Committed To Ceasefire”
Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement said that Hamas is committed to Egyptian-mediated ceasefire agreement, as long as Israeli is committed too.On…
Israeli Navy Fires on Gaza Fishing Boats
The Israeli navy, on Saturday, again opened fire at Palestinian fishermen boats, this time along the As-Sudaneyya shore, northwest of the Gaza Strip. Hamas has denied responsibility for an alleged…
Israeli Air Force Carries Out Two Strikes Against Gaza
The Israeli air force carried out, on Saturday at dawn, two air strikes targeting two areas in the Gaza Strip, for the first time since Israel’s war on the coastal…
Qassam Fighter Killed In Accidental Explosion In Gaza
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), has reported that one of its fighters was killed, Thursday, in what it described as an accidental explosion…
Gazans Who Filed Compensation Against Israel Will Not Be Allowed Into Israel To Testify
Press Release: Israeli Supreme Court approves regulations that ban Palestinians from Gaza from entering Israel for their compensation cases against the Israeli military.On 16 December 2014, the Supreme Court of…
Soldiers Invade Eastern Areas In Rafah, Khan Younis
Media sources in Gaza has reported that five Israeli military vehicles carried out, on Tuesday morning, a limited invasion into Palestinian lands east of the southern Gaza Strip districts of…
Egyptian Soldiers Shoot and Injure Gaza Fisherman
A Palestinian fisherman was injured, this past Saturday, by Egyptian gunfire off the coast of the Gaza Strip, according to a spokesman from the Gaza fishing community.’The fisherman was injured…
Israeli Forces Continue to Fire on Gaza Farmers
Israeli military jeeps opened fire towards Palestinian farmers along Gaza’s southern border region, near the town of Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis.According to Al Ray correspondence, several Israeli military jeeps…
Explosion near French Cultural Center in Gaza City
A Palestinian was injured, late Friday evening, in an explosion which occurred near the French Cultural Center in western Gaza City.Gaza police spokesman Ayman al-Batneiji told Ma’an News Agency that…
2 Injured by Explosion Outside Gaza Charity
Two passersby were were reported to have been lightly injured, late Wednesday, after a bomb exploded in front of a charity in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.Witnesses said…
New Amnesty International Report: Israel ‘deliberately and wantonly’ targeted residential towers
A new report from the international human rights group Amnesty International found that Israeli forces deliberately targeted multi-story apartment buildings in Gaza during the latter part of its invasion this…
Army Fires Shells Into Farmland In Central Gaza
Palestinian sources have reported, Tuesday morning, that an Israeli tank fired a shell into a farmland, east of the al-Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza.The sources said the shell led…
Israeli Navy Escalates Attacks Against Gaza Fishermen
Israeli gunboats stationed in the Gaza Sea have again chased down and opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats sailing within the officially allotted fishing zone.According to the PNN, forces arrested…
Two Fishermen Kidnapped In Northern Gaza
Israeli navy ships attacked, on Saturday evening, Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters, in the Sudaniyya area, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and kidnapped two fishermen.Eyewitnesses…
Two Palestinians Injured By Army Fire In Northern Gaza
Dr. Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesperson of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, has reported that two young Palestinian men have been shot, and injured by Israeli army fire, east of Jabalia,…
Gaza Fisherman Shot, Critically Injured by Israeli Navy
A Palestinian fisherman was injured by fire from an Israeli naval boat, Wednesday, while sailing offshore of Gaza City, according to witnesses.They said that an Israeli naval boat opened fire…
Israeli Forces Open Fire at Gaza Border
Israeli forces deployed along the border of the southern Gaza Strip were reported to have opened fired at Palestinian homes and properties in the area, on Friday morning, according to…
UNRWA: Severe Flooding in Gaza, State of Emergency Declared
UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA declared, on Thursday, a state of emergency in Gaza City, due to massive rains and flooding.Ma’an News Agency reports that a major storm, over the…
Egypt Reopens Rafah Crossing for 1st Time in a Month
Egyptian authorities will open the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip to allow thousands of Palestinians, stranded for weeks on the Egyptian side, to return home, an official stated…
Qassam Fighter Killed During Training In Gaza
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, stated Tuesday that one of its fighters was killed during training, east of Gaza City.The brigades said the fighter, identified…
Israeli Authorities Prevent 100 Tons of Vegetables from Exporting out of Gaza
Israeli occupation authorities have barred, at Kerm Abu Salem crossing, ten truckloads of agricultural products from passing out of the war-torn and economically besieged Gaza Strip, due to an alleged…
Palestinian Killed By Army Fire In Northern Gaza
Palestinian medical sources have reported that a man was shot and killed by Israeli army fire, east of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Sunday. In…
Teen Seriously Injured, 2 Taken at Gaza Border
A Palestinian teenager was reported to have been seriously injured, while two others were abducted by Israeli forces near the Kerem Shalom crossing, in the Gaza Strip. Medical sources said…
Gunshots, Smoke Missiles Fired in Northern Gaza
Israeli military media and military reported gunshots fired near Erez crossing, between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip. on Wednesday.Channel 7 said gunshots were fired towards Israeli forces at the…
Gaza Child Dies of Wounds Inflicted in Israeli Offensive
14-year-old Mohammed Siyam, from the Gaza Strip, lost his leg in an Israeli bombardment during the latest Israeli military aggression on Gaza, this past July.According to the PNN, after the…
Where is Humanity? Post-war Life in Gaza
“I am sorry for every human. What is happening in Gaza represents a tremendous dehumanisation for every human in the world,” Heba Al Hayek, a student of English Literature at…
Desalinated Drinking Water Inducing Cancer and Other Fatal Illnesses in Gaza
Iyad Salman was terribly shocked to find out that his 9-year-old son, Mohammad, has osteoporosis, an illness that became hugely spread between the children of Gaza. Iyad assured that he…
Mads Gilbert Permanently Banned from Gaza
Norwegian volunteer physician Dr. Mads Gilbert has been banned by Israel from ever returning to the Gaza Strip. Dr. Gilbert, who most recently spent time working in Gaza during Israel’s…
Human Rights Groups Denounce Israel’s Refusal To Allow Independent Commission of Inquiry Into Gaza
Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Condemn Israel’s Ban on Access of International Independent Commission of Inquiry to Gaza.Human rights organizations are following up with utmost concern the developments related to the…
ISM Journal: Farming in Gaza near the Buffer Zone
The farmers are rarely talked about. They blend into the background of the lands beyond the destroyed buildings of the towns. The reality is though, they are facing a battle…
Israeli Attacks on Fishermen in the Gaza Sea
Israeli Naval forces continued to carry out attacks on Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip during the reporting period (1 – 31 October 2014), including 18 shooting incidents that resulted…
Rami Almeghari in Gaza
Interview with Rami Almeghari in Gaza, by the Emoprog Army podcastHosted by @violentfanon, @TerrinaMajnoona, and first-time co-host @BenjaminNorton. We have back on Rami Almeghari, a university lecturer and writer for…
Several Fishermen Injured By Israeli Navy Fire
Palestinian medical sources in Gaza said several fishermen have been injured, late on Sunday at night and after midnight, after Israel Navy boats fired rounds of live ammunition and shells,…
Rafah Crossing Closed For Past Two Weeks
Egyptian authorities have been keeping the Rafah border crossing closed to passenger movement, in both directions, since last October.The director of border crossings in the Gaza Strip, Mr. Maher Abu…
Explosions Struck Homes, Cars, Of Fateh Leaders In Gaza
A number of explosions struck, on Friday dawn, around 15 homes, and cars, belonging of leaders of the Fateh movement in different parts of the Gaza Strip, and the podium…
Young Man Shot by Israeli Navy in Northern Gaza
The Israeli navy opened fire on Wednesday morning, against Palestinian fishermen, and shot a young man off Beit Lahia shores, in the northern Gaza Strip.According to Al Ray correspondence, he…
International observers witness the impact of “Operation Protective Edge” in Gaza
International observers witness the impact of “Operation Protective Edge” and the closure of Gaza on human rights defenders’ work inside Gaza.On October 28th, a five-member delegation from Europe and Guatemala…
PA to Begin Paying Delayed Gaza Government Salaries
The Palestinian Authority, on Tuesday, transferred millions of dollars to the Gaza Strip for the long-delayed payment of salaries to civil servants of the former Hamas-run government, a Palestinian official…
Remains Of Slain Palestinian Located Under Rubble Of Bombarded Mosque
Palestinian medics and workers located, on Monday afternoon, the remains of a young man who was killed when the Israeli army bombarded a mosque in Gaza on August 9, during…
Egypt to Build Gaza Buffer Zone, Thousands to Be Displaced
Egyptian authorities have announced a recent decision to build, along its borders with Gaza, a buffer zone with the depth of 500 meters, and a height of 14 km, with…
4 January 2009: The Abdel Dayem Family
“I was told initially that Arafa had been injured in an Israeli strike. Of course I was concerned, but many people get injured in his line of work and what…
PCHR – In Excessive Use Of Force, Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Civilian
On Friday, 20 December 2013, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian and wounded his brother while working near the borderline with Israel, north of Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza…
PCHR Warns of Consequences of Fuel Shortage at Gaza Hospitals
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) warns of the disastrous and grave deterioration that may affect the Palestinian patients in the Gaza Strip due to the lack of fuel…
Israeli Attacks on Fishermen in the Gaza Sea
Israeli Naval forces continued to carry out attacks on Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip during the reporting period[1] (1 – 30 September 2014), including 18 shooting incidents that resulted…
Child Killed In Northern Gaza
Palestinian medical sources have reported that a child was killed, after an undetonated explosive dropped by the Israeli army, during the latest aggression on Gaza, went off in Beit Hanoun,…
Four Palestinian Fishermen Kidnapped In Gaza Waters
Israeli navy boats attacked, on Wednesday morning, a Palestinian fishing boat close to the Gaza shore in the Sudaniyya area, north of Gaza City.Eyewitnesses said the navy fired rounds of…
International Delegation Arrives in Gaza to Observe Reconstruction
Head of the Palestinian Businessmen Association, Mr. Ali Al-Hayek, stated that a delegation of international observers arrived on Wednesday, to the Gaza Strip, to monitor the Gaza reconstruction process.According to…
AUDIO: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Gaza
(Full transcript of Ban’s Gaza press encounter below audio track.)via Christopher Gunness Spokesperson, Director of Advocacy and Strategic Communications UNRWA | Office of the Commissioner General | Jerusalem t: +972…
Israeli Naval Vessels Fire on Palestinian Fishermen
Israeli gunboats have again opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats off Gaza city shores, on Tuesday, at dawn.According to Walla Hebrew news site, Israelis opened live fire on the fishermen…
Ban Ki-moon Visits Gaza
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made a brief visit to the war-torn Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, just two days after international donor states pledged some $5.4 billion in reconstruction aid, following…
Young Man Dies Of Wounds Suffered During Gaza Offensive
Palestinian medical sources in occupied East Jerusalem have reported that a young man died, on Friday, of wounds suffered during the latest Israeli onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip.The man,…