Category: Gaza Strip

The reconstruction of Gaza is to cost $7.8 billion, according to Palestinian experts. Around 200,000 workers in the Gaza Strip are currently unemployed, say recent statistics, while the European Union…

We sailed out from Gaza City’s harbor just before dusk with the 13-man crew, including two boys, and we had a theoretical possibility to reach six nautical miles for fishing.…

Egyptian medical sources have reported, Thursday, that an elderly Palestinian woman died at the Nasser Medical Center, in Cairo, of serious injuries suffered on August 29, during the Israeli war…

A report by the United Nations Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) has estimated that, one week after Israel’s 50-day long assault on Gaza came to an end,…

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that a Palestinian man died, Wednesday, of wounds suffered during Israel’s war on the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip.The sources said resident…

Israeli soldiers opened fire, on Wednesday morning, at a number of Palestinian fishing boats close to the shore in the Sudaniyya area, west of Gaza City, and kidnapped two.Eyewitnesses said…

The Palestinian Ministry of Public Works and Housing has stated that Gaza needs five thousand caravans, in order to provide shelter more than 130,000 displaced peoples.“It is so important to…

Israeli forces have opened fire at fishermen off the coast of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, in an apparent violation of the ceasefire agreement reached in Cairo last week,…

The scale of the devastation caused by Israeli shelling on Gaza during the recent two-month assault has been shown in an online video, Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency reports.The brief…

Palestinian medical sources report that a man and a child have died of serious injuries suffered, in different strikes, during Israel’s extensive bombardment and aggression on the Gaza Strip. The…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported that two Palestinians died, on Friday, of wounds suffered during the Israeli aggression on Gaza.The Ministry stated that Mohammad al-Ma’sawani, 22,…

Palestinians across Gaza turned out by the thousands for a victory march, on Friday, as they experienced their first opportunity in 50 days to attend Friday prayers, at mosques in…

For the first time since 2007, a humanitarian convoy of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) successfully crossed from Egypt into the Gaza Strip Wednesday , carrying enough food…

Gaza officials state that Israeli authorities have begun implementing the terms of a ceasefire agreement which went into effect early Tuesday. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu declared, Wednesday, that Hamas achieved…

Senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouq said, Tuesday, that Israel has agreed to open Gaza crossings for humanitarian aid and construction materials.Mr. Abu Marzouq stated to Ma’an News Agency that…

His children were waiting for the day when they would buy new clothes, books and pencils before the new school year started, they were playing and laughing with their mother…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza issued a report stating that Israeli missiles and shells, fired against the Palestinian population of Gaza since July 8, led to the death…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that ten Palestinians, including two children, have been killed, and dozens injured, by Israeli missiles and shells in different parts of…

An open-ended ceasefire announced last night between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas led to celebrations in the streets of Gaza Tuesday, where people have been under constant bombardment and…

Almost 69 percent of government and UN schools in the Gaza Strip were damaged by Israeli assaults. West Bank students began their school year in solidarity with Gaza counterparts. And,…

Palestinian journalist Abdullah Fadel Moratja was killed, Monday evening, by Israeli shelling on citizens’ houses in the area of al-Shejaia, east of Gaza City. The Ministry of Information now states…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported on Monday, after midnight, that two Palestinians have been killed, and at least eight injured, including a medic, after the army…

An additional 4 casualties, including a journalist, killed on Monday evening brought the death toll from Israeli bombings to 9 on Monday. This follows a weekend of attacks on all…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that at least five more Palestinians, including children,  have been killed, Monday, by Israeli missiles in the Gaza Strip, while many have been injured, in a…

Palestinian medical sources reported, Monday, that two Palestinians were killed and dozens injured, in a series of Israeli air strikes and bombardment targeting different areas of the Gaza Strip.The sources…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that two Palestinians have been killed, many injured, including some who suffered critical injuries, in the ongoing Israeli bombardment of Gaza.The sources said resident Yassin…

On Sunday afternoon, the Juda’ family became the latest casualties of the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza. They are the 89th Palestinian family since July 8th to have been murdered…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that seven Palestinians, including a toddler and a child, have been killed, and scores injured, as the Israeli military continued to bombard different areas of…

Israeli soldiers bombarded, Sunday, another residential tower in Gaza City, killing two Palestinians and wounding several others. Many Palestinians have also been injured in separate Israeli air strikes in the…

Friday afternoon, Isreali PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s office tweeted an image of masked Hamas soldiers about to execute informants to Israel, along with another of ISIS extremist militia alongside Iraqi soldiers.The…

A massive Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Saturday, leveled to the ground a building known as the al-Zafer apartment complex. Several nearby buildings were severely damaged. At least twenty-two people…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported, Saturday, that five members of the Abu Dahrouj family (father, mother, including two children, and aunt) have been killed, after the…

A Palestinian revolutionary court, Friday morning, sentenced 18 people, who had been spying for Israel, to death by firing squad.The group had been caught spying for the benefit of the…

Following the decision by the Israeli government to pull out of negotiations for a long-term truce and renew airstrikes on Gaza, beginning Tuesday, August 19th, the Israeli military announced, Saturday,…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that four Palestinians have been killed, later on Friday, and dozens injured, in different Israeli air strikes and bombardment targeting residential…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip has reported that two Palestinians were killed, and many injured, as the Israeli army continued to target densely populated civilian areas in the…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip has reported that a Palestinian father and his child have been killed, while many Palestinians have been wounded, as the Israeli army continues…

Nour Abu Haseera, 3 years of age, did not know or realize that her smile, her innocent face and smile, will be a target for Israel’s missiles of hatred and…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported Thursday night that an additional 7 people were killed by Israeli airstrikes Thursday evening, including a child, bringing the death toll to 30 on…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that eight Palestinians, including three children, have been killed and many Palestinians injured, including four children who suffered serious injuries after…

Palestinians medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that at least twelve Palestinians have been killed and at least 200 have been injured in the extensive Israeli bombardment targeting…

Since beginning its assault on the Gaza Strip on July 8th, Israeli officials have prevented human rights observers and experts employed by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch from entering…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that two Palestinians have been confirmed dead after the Israeli army and air force fired several missiles into the Nusserirat area, in central Gaza. In…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that two Palestinians have been killed, Wednesday, and many injured, some seriously, after the army bombarded several homes and areas in the Gaza Strip.Sources said…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, Wednesday, that seventeen more Palestinians, including children, have been killed, and dozens injured in the resumed Israeli offensive on the Palestinians in the besieged coastal…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that several Palestinians, including children, have been killed in Israeli shelling targeting different parts of the coastal region, while dozens have…

Sources in Gaza report that Israeli airstrikes that began at midnight, Tuesday morning, with the ending of the temporary ceasefire, continued throughout the night until Wednesday morning.The Wednesday morning airstrikes…

A few days before he was killed trying to disarm an unexploded Israeli missile, Hazem Abu Murad, the head of Gaza’s bomb squad, estimated that Israel had dropped between eighteen…

Renewed Israeli airstrikes have injured dozens of Palestinians, including three children, on Tuesday, in the Gaza Strip, and killed at least three more, according to the Ministry of Health. Ashraf…

The United Nations Mideast Envoy Robert Serry told the UN Security Council on Monday that the Gaza Strip has suffered an ‘unprecedented amount of destruction’ as a result of the…

Member of the Political Bureau of the Hamas Movement, Dr. Mousa Abu Marzook, stated that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is obstructing indirect talks, and has rejected the Egyptian ceasefire…

A report by the Israeli military on Sunday August 17th found that during the Israeli invasion of Gaza that began on July 8th, fifteen different incidents of ‘friendly fire’ occurred,…

A group of Israeli activists, representing the ghosts of silent victims without faces or names, walked through the streets of Tel Aviv on August 12. Describing themselves as the “missing…

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that the Israeli assault on Gaza caused extensive damage to the region’s agricultural sector and will have long-term consequences.In a statement, the…

The Israeli side presented a 7-stage plan to Egyptian mediators who, in return, handed it to the Palestinian negotiators. Palestinian sources said that the plan is practically filled with threats…

Israel and Palestinian resistance fighters are holding their fire, this morning, according to Ma’an.The Israeli army says that there has been no fighting for several hours, since Israeli air strikes…

Israeli aircraft have carried out airstrikes across Gaza early Thursday, according to Ma’an, these in response to rocket fire reported to have come from Gaza just shortly after a new…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a man was killed on Wednesday evening, when an explosive object — likely to have been fired by Israel, previously — detonated close to…

Based on Israeli claims, three rockets were reported to have hit the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, on Wednesday, just before the official 12 am end of a 72-hour temporary…

At least five people have been killed and another six seriously injured by an unexploded Israeli missile which blew up in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, according to witnesses and a…

A phenomenal volunteering effort on the part of humanitarian workers has emerged with the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza civilians. In spite of the tremendous risks implied by providing…

The Palestinian Ministry of Detainee and Ex-Detainees stated that its legal units managed, a few days ago, to obtain a list containing the names of 26 Palestinians kidnapped by the…

Israeli navy boats violated the temporary truce with Gaza by opening fire on Palestinian fishing boats near the coast of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Nizar…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a wounded Palestinian man died at an Egyptian hospital of serious injuries suffered several days ago when the army bombarded Rafah. Remains of two…

The Israeli government has tried to defend its indiscriminate killing of civilians by claiming resistance fighters hide among the people, when actually there is no safe place in Gaza. We…

Palestinian medical sources reported, Sunday, that two more Palestinians were killed and many injured, some seriously, in the Israeli bombardment of different parts of the Gaza Strip. Temporary 72-hours ceasefire…

A 72-hour ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is set to begin at midnight Monday morning, after Palestinian factions and Israeli authorities agreed to hold fire while negotiators work on terms…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that four Palestinians, including two children, have been killed and dozens injured, after the army fired missiles into several areas in the Gaza Strip. Updated:…

Since the military offensive in Gaza began a month ago, Israeli fire has killed at least six ambulance workers and 13 aid workers while they were attempting to rescue injured…

As an intense volley of rocket fire resumed across the borders of the Gaza Strip, just following the end of a 72-hour temporary truce on Friday, Gazans who had returned…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that, Saturday, five more Palestinians have been killed and dozens injured, as the Israeli army continued it bombardment of different areas of the besieged Gaza…

The Palestinian Ministry Of Health stated that five Palestinians were killed, and several others injured, some seriously, after the army bombarded a mosque in Nusseirat area, and the al-Maghazi refugee…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported that Israeli missiles and shells in the Gaza Strip have killed five Palestinians, Friday, while at least 31 have been injured.3:15 Friday Update:…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported that a Palestinian child was killed, and at least eleven Palestinians have been injured after the Israeli army continued its bombardment…

Israel has once again resumed its attacks on the Gaza Strip, following a failed attempt by Cairo negotiators at extending the 72-hour ceasefire beyond the 8am deadline, Friday. According to…

The following is a list of Palestinian demands presented to Israel by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, during indirect talks held in Egypt between Israeli and Palestinians teams, as published…

As the 72-hour temporary truce comes to an unsatisfactory end, with Israel failing to meet demands presented by negotiators in Cairo, Palestinian resistance in Gaza has fired a number of…

Video – On Thursday August 7: The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, stated in a video published on August 7th, that any ceasefire and truce agreement…

“Are you pregnant Suheila, really?” The husband asked his wife with the utmost joy and happiness. It had taken Ahmad an-Nairab, 67, and his wife Soheila 25 years of doctor…

UNICEF – JERUSALEM, 7 August 2014 – As the three-day ceasefire in Gaza draws to a close, families are struggling to cope with the aftermath of 28 days of violence…

Palestinian medical sources at the al-Maqassed Hospital in occupied Jerusalem have reported that a Palestinian man from Gaza died of wounds suffered a week ago, in an Israeli bombardment of…

“As Israel announces the withdrawal of its troops from the Gaza Strip, Reporters Without Borders (RWB) reports that 12 Palestinian journalists and one media worker have been killed since the…

Minister of Prisoner’s Affairs Shawqi al-Ayasa has stated that no information has been received concerning a number of Palestinians detained in Gaza over the course of Israel’s offensive on the…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported that ongoing search and rescue efforts under the rubble of bombarded homes in Gaza have led, on Tuesday morning, to uncovering…

In honour of the memory of Salem Khalil Salem Shammaly, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) has published all the raw footage, taken by Mohammed Abedullah, of Salem’s murder, and photos…

On Monday afternoon, Israeli attacks in different parts of Gaza continued – despite a unilateral declaration by Israel that they would pause their attacks for 7 hours on Monday. At…

Official Press Release — Gaza Ministry of HealthAugust 04, 2014 The Ministry of Health Gaza condemns in the strongest possible terms the Israeli breaking of the humanitarian ceasefire in a…

Despite the Israeli refusal to participate in ceasefire negotiations, in Egypt, Palestinian resistance factions have agreed to engage in a 72-hour truce beginning 8 am Tuesday. Israeli officials, who have…

Israeli soldiers continued their bombardment of different parts of the Gaza Strip, killing at least eight Palestinians, including children, in Rafah, and a leader of the al-Quds Brigades, the military…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that at least ten Palestinians have been killed, on Monday at dawn, after the Israeli army and air force fired missiles into homes, and civilian…

The Ministry of Health Gaza is reeling from the reports coming out of Rafah, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, who informs that scores of people have been killed…

Official Press Release – Ministry of HealthThe people of Gaza face enormous barriers to accessing primary health care, with only 10 of the government’s 56 Primary Health Care clinics operational,…

The Israeli military withdrew the majority of its ground forces back to staging areas outside of Gaza on Sunday. The air force, however, continues to strike targets in the coastal…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reports numerous air strikes targeting different parts of the Gaza Strip, with an ongoing Israeli military ground presence in Rafah, all day Sunday. Eighteen people…

Since the Israeli military began its assault on the Gaza Strip on July 8th, Israeli forces have repeatedly targeted medics and medical centers who have been working feverishly to treat…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported that six members of two families have been killed, and several Palestinians have been injured, as the Israeli army continued to fire missiles…

The Israeli military continued its bombardment and shelling of densely populated civilian area, and homes, in the Gaza Strip, killing nine members of one family, and six members of another…

As the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip and its civilian population continues for the 28th consecutive day, Israeli missiles and shells have killed several Palestinians, Sunday, while dozens have…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported that at least eight Palestinians have been killed, on Sunday at dawn, while many have been injured, some seriously, in ongoing…

The crisis in Gaza is fast spiralling out of control with water supplies critically low and a public health crisis imminent, Oxfam warned today. The collapse of the latest brief…