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On Saturday, Palestinian and international news agencies managed to accompany residents and aid workers into the town of Khuza’a, in the southern Gaza Strip. Among those people were Tamer al-Mis-hal,…
The children were all dressed in new clothes. They were gathered to celebrate Eid al-Fitr. Yet their faces did not look cheerful.Thirteen-year-old Muayad al-Sahqar was not venturing further than the…
Local sources report that at least 50 Palestinians were killed in continuous airstrikes on Rafah on Saturday. This follows an attack on a market in Rafah Friday that broke a…
The airstrike on the Rafah market during the humanitarian ceasefire on Friday was apparently a ‘revenge attack’ for the killing of two soldiers and the abduction of one which took…
After a declared ceasefire ended with massive Israeli airstrikes Friday, Israeli bombs continued to drop on all parts of the Gaza Strip through the evening and night.Six bodies arrived at…
The latest report from the massive bomb that hit Rafah, on Friday morning, is that over 62 people have been killed and 200 injured in the Israeli bombardment of a…
Air strikes in different parts of Gaza killed 14 Palestinians, including 3 medics whose ambulance was directly targeted, a 4-year old and an 8-month old baby. This follows an earlier…
International solidarity activists who have been helping in Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest, have announced that the hospital has received a phone call telling them a building of the hospital will…
The Media Office of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, issued a press release accusing Israel of repeatedly violating the 72-hour ceasefire, shortly after it started, an issue which pushed armed…
Local sources in Gaza have reported that Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinians, trying to reach their homes in Rafah, Gaza City, and several areas in the Gaza Strip. Medics…
Muhammad Daher, a Palestinian journalist for al-Resalah newspaper, was recently injured when Israeli forces shelled his home in Shuja’eyya, to the east of Gaza City. He succumbed to his wounds…
Israeli forces, yesterday, kidnapped at least 14 Palestinians and shot one with live ammunition during predawn raids on West Bank districts of Hebron and Jenin, according to reports by local…
On Thursday, a group of 24 doctors and scientists signed an open letter that was published in the Lancet Medical Journal in Great Britain, in support of the people of…
Gaza hospitals are operating under impossible conditions, with surgery now being performed in corridors and on the floor due to the sheer numbers of wounded from massacres such as Shati…
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported that nine members of the al-Farra family have been killed, in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip,…
Power outages have been reported at a number of Gaza hospitals, which is severely impacting care for the hundreds of wounded Palestinians who are currently being treated for their injuries.…
This weekend a brief 12 hour cessation of hostilities was announced in Gaza. Oxfam teams were able to deliver more vital water and aid to people who have fled their…
More than 240,000 people have now fled their homes, but have nowhere safe to go. With exit through Israel closed under the long-term blockade, and the border with Egypt shut,…
Both the Israeli military and Hamas resistance have reportedly agreed to a 72-hour temporary cessation of military operations within the Gaza Strip.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and UN Secretary-General…
Following two days of massive Israeli bombardment of all parts of the Gaza Strip resulting in more than 200 Palestinians dead, the early hours of Thursday morning saw 13 additional…
The United Nations continued to rhetorically condemn Israel yesterday. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called an attack on a school, which held displaced Palestinians, “outrageous.”“I condemn this attack in the strongest possible…
“We don’t have power at the moment. We don’t have water,” physician Dr. Mona El-Farra told The Electronic Intifada from Gaza today. Dr. El-Farra works with the Palestine Red Crescent…
Throughout the day, on Wednesday, casualties have been pouring into hospitals in every part of Gaza, as medical facilities have had to turn to backup generators for power after Israel…
Ministry of Health Gaza is outraged at the Israeli massacre perpetrated during the so-called humanitarian ceasefire, when F-16s fired missiles into the crowded Shujeiyah market as hundreds took advantage of…
Palestinian medical sources have reported that seven Palestinians, including four family members, have been killed in an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza…
Israeli missiles have killed six family members in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, while several Palestinians have been injured. Dozens killed due to ongoing Israeli…
The Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported that at least 24 more Palestinians, including families, have been killed, and many have been injured, some seriously, in ongoing Israeli bombardment of…
One of the most horrific of the many horrors of the last three weeks in Gaza was the shelling of a group of Palestinian civilians who had sought refuge in…
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported that fifteen Palestinians have been killed, in the early morning hours before dawn Wednesday, when the Israeli army fired a missile…
The Israeli army continued its bombardment of homes and civilian structures in different parts of the Gaza Strip killing at least 26 Palestinians, including family members and children, and wounding…
As the situation in Gaza worsens, foreign journalists are leaving the Strip by the busload, while bombs on Tuesday have targeted several media agencies and journalists’ homes.Mohammad Omer, the award-winning…
Hamas military wing al-Qassam Brigades announced, early Monday, that they had killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded another during clashes which took place east of Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza…
update: A new airstrike in Rafah around 8:30 pm Tuesday killed two and wounded three. The Palestinian Health Ministry reports 192 killed, and hundreds more injured since Monday. Most of…
Gaza’s sole power plant was destroyed by the most intense Israeli bombardment of this war. The people of Gaza were already dealing with power cuts more than 20 hours a…
A Palestinian child, who was seriously injured several days ago when the army fired a missile into a street in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip,…
Update: The Israeli army continued its illegitimate bombardment of Palestinian homes, and civilian property, and killed five family members of a Palestinian journalist, including two children in Gaza City. Media…
An Israeli soldier has published accounts of Israeli soldiers being authorized by their commanders to carry out revenge attacks against civilians in the Gaza Strip “to enable the soldiers to…
Palestinian sources in Gaza are reporting a large number of Israeli bombs dropped in northern, southern, central, western and eastern Gaza on Tuesday morning, including the Palestinian Ministry of Finance,…
The house of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was the target of an Israeli missile, early this morning. Reports say there was no one inside the house and there were no…
The Israeli army resumed its bombardments of different areas of the Gaza Strip, hitting more homes and civilian structures, killing at least eighteen more Palestinians, including an entire family, and…
Palestinian Muslims in Gaza say they had hoped to have a quiet holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which begins Monday and goes until Friday. But, the Israeli military began pounding Gaza…
Palestinian Medical Sources have reported that a Palestinian man and child were killed, and several Palestinians were injured, after the army bombarded homes Jabalia. Soldiers also fired missiles into lands…
United States President Barack Obama and the United Nations Security Council have both called for an unconditional ceasefire from Israel this morning. In a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that an elderly Palestinian man was killed, late on Sunday at night, and another Palestinian was injured, after the army bombarded…
I’ve devoted a good deal of my life to Israel. I’ve studied, read, visited, lived, breathed it. Not in the way diehard pro-Israel fanatics do. But in a different way…
Update: Around 6 pm, another Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces, this time in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. He has been identified as: Essam Ibrahim…
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) has published a report detailing the search for bodies in the brief ceasefire that took place over the weekend, but also condemned Israeli…
Naim Abdul Aziz Abu Zaher, 36, was shot to death by Israeli forces east of Deir al-Balah around 9 pm Saturday, two hours before the ‘temporary ceasefire’ was scheduled to…
It has been one more day without water or electricity in Gaza as Israeli soldiers continue their attacks. Since the attacks began more than two weeks ago, Israel has killed…
During the brief halt in Israeli bombardment on Saturday, Palestinian residents and medics have managed to retrieve the bodies of 135 Palestinians, mainly in Shuja’eyya, whose deaths had previously gone…
Despite being attacked by the army, medics and rescue teams managed to locate the remains of 85 Palestinians, mainly women and children, buried under rubble of homes and buildings previously…
As in the two previous ‘temporary truces’ since the Israeli assault on Gaza began July 8th, Israeli forces stepped up their attacks on Palestinian civilians in the hours leading up…
Hamas and Israel have officially announced a 12-hour ceasefire to take begin at 7am, on Saturday morning, as today’s toll of human life in the Gaza Strip topped 67. As…
Press Release Gaza Ministry of Health, PalestineThe Ministry of Health Gaza strongly condemns two Israeli attacks on Gazan medical facilities and personnel in the last 24 hours. The first resulted…
At 19:00 Beit Hanoun Hospital was hit by an Israeli tank shell. Inside the hospital are 61 medical staff, three patients, civilians, and ISM volunteers who are all trapped inside.…
Update 23:40 Palestinian medics report that ambulances continue to be targeted by Israeli tank shells and airstrikes, with ambulances hit in both Gaza City and Beit Hanoun. The death toll…
The Israeli army, on Friday, announced that a soldier the Qassam Brigades claimed to have captured is dead.Bethlehem: Ma’an update 25/07/2014; 22:00 The Israeli army on Friday announced that a…
UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl issued a statement Friday condemning the Israeli attack on the previous day which killed 17 Palestinian civilians who had sought shelter in a UN school in…
In the pre-dawn hours on Friday, the Israeli army fired missiles and shells into dozens of homes, residential buildings, medical facilities and other areas in different parts of the Gaza…
Ibrahim Sheikh Omar, 2 ½ years old, was killed late Thursday night when Israeli forces bombed the Mohammad al-Durra Hospital in Gaza City. 13 others were wounded in the airstrike.Ibrahim…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip has reported that at last fifteen Palestinians have been killed by Israeli missiles and shells late Thursday night, July 24th, while dozens of…
Dozens Palestinian Civilians Killed and Wounded by Israeli Attacks in Khuza’a, ‘Abassan and al-Qarara Villages; Israeli Forces Attack Gaza from the Air, the Sea and the Ground; More Palestinians ForciblySince…
The bodies of Palestinian families killed overnight in Khuza’a, in eastern Khan Younis, continue to be pulled from the rubble and identified, as air strikes and tank shelling continue throughout…
UNRWA spokesman Adnan Abu Hasana said, today, that Israeli forces shelled a Beit Hanoun school serving as a shelter, earlier in the afternoon. They had received no prior warning. Dozens…
Medics located the remains of two brothers, killed during the massive Sunday bombardment that led to the death of dozens of Palestinians in the Shuja’eyya neighborhood in Gaza, Sunday, while…
Update: 10:00 am Thursday: The child killed in the bombing of the mosque in Jabalia has been identified as: Hadi Abdul-Hamid Abdul Nabi, an infant aged 1 1/2. The death…
On the 21st July at 2:17 PM, the IDF spokesperson released an image on twitter showing an aerial picture of a building marked as ‘Al-Wafa’ hospital. In the image there…
Local and media sources in the Gaza Strip stated that the Israeli army continued its bombardament throughout the day and night, Tuesday, of entirely civilian, densely populated areas in the…
Following the killing of several journalists, airstrikes on media headquarters and targeting of Al Jazeera offices, the Palestinian Journalist Union issued a statement condemning what they say is the deliberate…
The Israeli army continued its bombardment of Palestinian communities in different part of the Gaza Strip, targeting homes and civilian structures, and killed at least thirteen more Palestinian, while dozens…
An UNRWA school that has been sheltering Palestinian refugees in central Gaza came under Israeli fire on Tuesday, as previously feared by relief workers, while an inspection team was working…
Palestinian medical sources have reported that eight more Palestinians, including a child, have been killed, on Wednesday, in ongoing Israeli bombardment targeting Palestinian homes.Medical sources said one Palestinian, identified as…
The Israeli army continued its bombardment and shelling of different areas in the densely populated Gaza Strip, killing at least five more Palestinians, and wounding several others.Medical sources said resident…
Israel has now destroyed or seriously damaged more than 50 mosques since its assault on Gaza began, according to undersecretary of the Ministry of Endowments in Gaza, Hassan al-Saifi.Al-Saifi told…
The injured young man who was shot dead on camera by an Israeli sniper two days ago has been identified as Salem Khalil Salem Shammaly, a 23-year-old resident of Shajiya.…
Israeli soldiers continued to fire missiles into densely populated areas in different parts of the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, claiming the lives of dozens of residents, while scores of Palestinians…
Updated – Medical sources in Gaza have reported that eight more Palestinians have been killed, and dozens injured in ongoing Israeli bombardment in different parts of the Gaza Strip. Medical…
As the Israeli army continued its illegitimate offensive on civilians in the besieged coastal region for the fourteenth day, today, Palestinian medical sources have reported that fourteen Palestinians have been…
Shortly after Israel targeted, again, Palestinian hospitals and medical centers, the Israeli Army fired more shells and missiles into homes and residential towers in the Gaza Strip killing scores of…
Yesterday, international and Palestinian volunteers accompanied Civil Defence and other rescue crews, as well as family members, into Shajiya neighbourhood in Gaza. They attempted to locate survivors of overnight and…
The Ministry of Health said the army fired missiles into the Al-Aqsa Hospital, in Central Gaza, killing four Palestinians, and injuring 40 others. Ambulances also came under direct Israeli fire…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that the number of casualties among the civilians, including children, infants and elderly, continues to rise, as the Israeli army is…
Palestinian medical sources have reported that at least 34 Palestinians have been killed, and dozens injured, in ongoing Israeli bombardment targeting different areas of the Gaza Strip, while medics also…
Following is a list of all names and ages of Palestinians killed by Israeli missiles and shells, in the Shuja’eyya neighborhood of Gaza City, during the early Sunday pre-dawn Israeli…
As the Palestinian death toll hits 450, after 12 days of the Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip, Israeli officials have acknowledged the deaths of 23 Israeli soldiers killed by…
Following a massive ground assault on Shuja’eyya neighborhood, in eastern Gaza City, that cost over 60 people their lives before dawn on Sunday, Israeli forces continued airstrikes throughout the afternoon…
In what Gazans have already begun to term ‘the Shuja’eyya massacre’, Israeli strikes in the crowded Gaza City neighborhood, Sunday morning, have caused the deaths of at least 60 Palestinian…
A Hamas-affiliated website has published the ceasefire terms that Hamas and Islamic Jihad have reportedly submitted to the U.S. through a Qatari intermediary. The terms include an immediate cessation of…
In Rafah, on Sunday morning, an elderly woman and a toddler were identified after having been killed in the ongoing bombing taking place there, while in Al-Bureij refugee camp, in…
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported that, as the Israeli army continued to fire missiles and bombard different parts of the West Bank; at least nine more…
Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Sunday at dawn, that six Palestinians have been killed, and many wounded, as the Israeli army continued to bombard Palestinian communities in the coastal…
Hospital staff and international activists, from the U.S., Sweden, and the UK, attempted to travel to the recently bombed el-Wafa hospital, in an attempt to retrieve salvageable medical supplies. 19th…
The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, stated a group of fighters managed to infiltrate into an Israeli military base across the border fence, and positioned themselves…
The Israeli ground invasion continued for a second day straight on Saturday, claiming over 100 lives in the past two days, many of them children and families killed in their…
As Israeli bombardament continued against different parts of the besieged coastal enclave, hitting more homes, structures and facilities, Palestinian medical sources have reported that ten more Palestinians have been killed,…
The Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported that eight Palestinians, four of them members of one family, have been killed on Saturday, in the pre-dawn hours, when Israeli missiles struck…
Gaza resident Nasser Hammad is director of the Strategic Studies and Documentation Center in Gaza, and a freelance journalist. The Alternative Information Center (AIC) spoke to Nassar about Gazans’ daily…
A Norwegian doctor working in Gaza has strongly criticized Israel for using cancer-inducing bombs against Palestinian civilians.According to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, Dr. Erik Fosse recently stated to Press…
Israeli tanks, naval ships and airforce continue to bombard every part of the Gaza Strip, with ground troops invading from the north and east and airstrikes continuing to hit areas…
UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said, today, that more than 30,000 people have fled their homes to take shelter in the 34 UNRWA schools that are located across the Gaza…