Category: Gaza Strip

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported that three siblings have been killed after an Israeli missile struck their bedroom, as they slept, in Abraj a-Nada residential area, in the…

As the Israeli military advances into Gaza, using massive military force to flatten homes and families, the deputy speaker of the Knesset, Moshe Feiglin, has published a statement on his…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that a young Palestinian man was killed after the Israeli army bombarded homes in Juhr ed-Deek area, southeast of Gaza City, while several Palestinians…

Reports of repeated airstrikes continue to come in, with naval artillery strikes and tank fire occurring in every part of the Gaza Strip, on Friday morning.In Beit Hanoun, in northern…

Yesterday at 20:40 the Israeli military contacted el-Wafa hospital in Gaza and stated, “Why don’t you care about your family? Why don’t you care about your patients?” 18th July 2014…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that several Palestinians have been killed, and dozens of residents wounded, many seriously, as the Israeli army intensified its strikes against…

The Gaza Ministry of Interior says Palestinians are proving to be a model of steadfastness against the psychological war being perpetrated by Israel.See: Thousands of Palestinians Seek Refuge at UNRWA…

Seven Palestinian children were killed on Thursday afternoon when Israeli airstrikes began again after a five hour pause to allow humanitarian supplies to enter Gaza. The first major airstrike hit…

Destruction, death and chaos continue to prevail in the Gaza Strip, on Friday, as reports of shelling, drone warfare and ground assaults continue to surface from the region. Early Friday…

Dr. Basman Alashi, caring for patients needing critical care at al-Wafa hospital, has had to evacuate his patients after Israel bombed the hospital several times on Thursday evening.After a week…

During its latest round of airstrikes, Thursday evening, soldiers killed seven small children (four of whom were four years old). Israeli officials have flatly rejected a ten-year truce offered by…

Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian man died of serious injuries, suffered when the army bombarded Rafah, earlier Thursday. An elderly man was instantly killed in the attack.The sources…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that the Israeli Air Force continued it attacks against various Palestinian neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip, killing three more Palestinians, in Rafah, on Thursday morning.The…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that four more Palestinians were killed on Thursday, in the latest of an ongoing series of Israeli strikes and bombardment targeting…

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Israeli airstrikes and naval and artillery strikes have killed 24 Palestinians on Wednesday, most of whom are civilians.One Israeli airstrike targeted…

Following a week of Israeli airstrikes, hundreds of thousands of Gaza residents remain without running water. International aid agencies warned Tuesday that Israel’s ongoing destruction of Gazan infrastructures threatens the…

International Solidarity Movement (ISM) Update 7/16/14 — After a night of heavy shelling in the area, the day is dawning in Gaza. The clock ticks pass 08:00; past the evacuation…

An Israeli naval ship fired multiple artillery shells at children on a beach in Gaza City Wednesday, killing four children between the ages of 9 and 11, and wounding a…

From 10:00 on Tuesday, 15 July 2014 to 10:00 on Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 13 Palestinians, including 10 civilians, were killed. Additionally, 117 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were wounded – this…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported that an Israeli drone fired a missile at a civilian car in the Bani Soheila area, in the southern Gaza Strip district of…

Palestinian medical sources reported, on Wednesday, that seven Palestinians have been killed, and several others have been injured, in Israeli strikes targeting different parts of the Gaza Strip.The sources said…

As the Israeli war on Gaza continues, Israeli soldiers bombarded dozens of homes, neighborhoods, and different facilities in the besieged coastal region, killing five more Palestinians, Tuesday, and wounding dozens,…

Hamas and Islamic Jihad stated Tuesday that they were never consulted over the terms of a proposed truce with Israel that was drafted by Egypt. The Israeli prime minister stated…

An Israeli civilian was killed by rocket fire coming from Gaza, on Tuesday, according to the Israeli army. This is the first Israeli death reported during the eight days of…

Palestinian medial sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that an additional ten Palestinian have been killed, Monday, in ongoing Israeli shelling and bombardment of various civilian areas in the…

Prize winning Israeli defense and aerospace engineering expert Dr. Moti Shefer stated, during a recent interview with Radio 103, that the infamous Israeli ‘Iron Dome’ security system was one of…

The war is now in its seventh day, the death toll is rising briskly, 17,000 people have fled Beit Lahia in the north after the threat of a land invasion,…

Several Palestinian civil society groups have called for an independent investigation into the Israeli bombing of the al-Mabarra Center for the Disabled in Jabalia which killed two residents and wounded…

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian in Khan Younis, on Monday at dawn, and continued the bombardment of civilian homes and property in the coastal region. Another Palestinian was killed later…

Palestinians in Gaza have noted a brief pause in the constant barrage of bombs, Sunday night, while the World Cup final game was in progress. F16 fighters continued to circle…

As Israel’s war against the Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza continued, Sunday, the sixth day of this aggression, Israeli missiles and shells have killed three more Palestinians, and dozens…

The Municipality of Gaza says that the Israel’s targeting of its facilities and staff is a willful crime. Gaza hospitals are straining under the pressure inflicted by Israel’s current string…

Israeli troops initiated their first ground assault on Gaza, early Sunday, in further escalation of the current offensive, now 7 days in progress, and just hours after the UN Security…

Israeli airstrikes bombed a major water line and sewage plant, west of Gaza City, which provides water to tens of thousands of citizens and is regarded as the main water…

A Norwegian doctor working at Shifa hospital, in Gaza City, told reporters that some of the injuries that wounded and killed Palestinians have experienced are consistent with the use of…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that two more Palestinians have been killed, and dozens injured, in the ongoing Israeli escalation against the Palestinian people in the besieged and impoverished Gaza…

Residents of several towns in the northern Gaza Strip received airdrops of leaflets on Sunday morning, July 13th, warning them to leave their homes by noon, or risk being bombed.…

As the Israeli army continues and escalates its aggression on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip for the sixth consecutive day, Israeli soldiers killed three more Palestinians in the…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that four more Palestinians, including an infant, have been killed in a fresh wave of Israeli strikes targeting civilian homes in different parts of the…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that three Palestinians, including a 73-year-old woman, were killed on Sunday at dawn, in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s war on the Palestinians in the…

Two young disabled girls were killed on Saturday in an Israeli air strike that targeted a center for the disabled in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza.The three girls have not…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that six more Palestinians were killed in a number of airstrikes late Friday night and early Saturday morning, and that at least three of the…

Israeli forces have dramatically escalated the scope of its aerial offensive in Gaza on Thursday, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, as five civilian facilities across Gaza have now…

14 Palestinians have been killed this morning, in Gaza, including two children. Dozens have been injured in the ongoing Israeli airstrikes. 10 of the injured are in serious condition, the…

It was supposed to be an evening of entertainment in Gaza, watching the World Cup semi-final at a cafe, a welcome break from 48 hours of Israeli air strikes. But…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that a Palestinian man died of wounds suffered after the Israeli army fired missiles into an area south of Gaza city.The sources said Adnan…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that five family members have been killed, and fifteen more Palestinians injured, when Israeli missiles struck homes in Yebna refugee camp and the Nahda neighborhood,…

Palestinian medical sources reported, Friday, that a Palestinian child and a young man have been killed in Rafah and in Gaza city. Dozens of Palestinians have been injured on ongoing…

Tuesday night, Suha Hamad, 25 years old, sacrificed her own life to save those of her four children. Suha took her last breath saving their lives, according to Ma’an News…

In the course of the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip that has been ongoing for the third consecutive day, Israeli warplanes and gunboats launched intensive attacks throughout the Gaza…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is strongly concerned by Israel’s conduct of its offensive on the Gaza Strip, and in particular by the widespread punitive targeting of homes…

The entrance to the harbour was yesterday blocked for cars and other vehicles, but it was no problem to enter by foot. No one tried to stop me; there was…

Egyptian authorities have opened Rafah crossing, early this morning, to allow hundreds of injured Palestinians to receive medical treatment after Israel’s latest string of assaults on the Gaza Strip.Iyad al-Buzm,…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that Israeli airstrikes Thursday morning killed 19 Palestinians, including three children, 77 Palestinians have been killed (at least 20 of whom are children) in ongoing…

Five Palestinians have been killed on Wednesday evening, during Israel’s ongoing airstrikes on northern and southern Gaza, bringing the total number of deaths in Gaza to 53.Ma’an News Agency has…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that two Palestinian women and two children have been killed on Wednesday evening, when Israeli soldiers fired missiles into Rafah and Khan Younis, in southern…

The Israeli army continued its aggression against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, killing at least twenty-one Palestinians, including children and women, and wounding dozens of residents.The Israeli air…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that one Palestinian was killed, on Wednesday morning, and another resident was injured, when the Israeli army fired a missile into Beit Lahia, in the…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip has reported that 24 Palestinians, including children and family members, have been killed Tuesday in the ongoing Israeli war on the Palestinian people…

50,000 government employees in the Gaza Strip held a strike, today, in protest against salaries not yet received. The Head of Personnel Union in Gaza, Mohamed Seyam, said, according to…

Palestinian fighters attempted to infiltrate into a military base, across the border with Gaza, and exchanged fire with Israeli soldiers who, according to Israeli sources, killed four. The Arabs48 News…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a father and his child have been killed in new Israeli air airstrikes targeting Gaza City. Sixteen Palestinians killed by Israeli missiles Tuesday.The sources…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that the number of Palestinians, killed by Israeli missiles in Gaza since morning hours, Tuesday, has arrived to 14, including children, while around a 100…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that seven Palestinian civilians have been killed, and at least 25 have been injured, after the Israeli Air Force fired a missile into a Palestinian…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that one Palestinian was killed, and around thirty Palestinians, including women and children, have been injured, some seriously, as the Israeli army continues its escalation…

As the Israeli aggression on Gaza intensifies, Palestinian medical sources have reported that at least 16 Palestinians, including children, have been injured in different parts of the coastal region, as…

After Israeli airstrikes, Monday morning, killed nine Palestinians in Gaza, the Israeli military stepped up the attacks on Gaza, Tuesday morning, dropping more than 50 bombs on the besieged coastal…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that twelve Palestinians have been injured, near Khan Younis, in ongoing Israeli air strikes targeting different parts of the coastal region.The sources said the twelve…

Corporate Watch researchers visited the Gaza Strip during November and December 2013 and carried out interviews with farmers in Beit Hanoun, Al Zaytoun, Khaza’a, Al Maghazi and Rafah, as well…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that nine Palestinians have been killed by Israeli missiles and shells in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, and Monday at dawn. Seven of the slain…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that two residents have been killed, on Sunday evening, in an Israeli air strike on the al-Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza. The sources said…

The Ministry of Agriculture has further cited Israel’s attacks on Palestinian livelihood in Gaza, with regard to the fishing space off the coast, which has been limited from six to…

The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture has estimated the total cost of damages due to recent Israeli airstrikes on ex-settlements (now cultivated land) in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip,…

An unidentified Palestinian man was critically wounded Friday night when he was shot in the chest by Israeli troops near the electrified fence surrounding the Gaza Strip, according to the…

The Israeli Air Force fired, on Friday evening, several missiles targeting Rafah and Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, causing property damage but no injuries.Local sources…

According to an unnamed Hamas officials, a ceasefire could be declared in the coming few hours between the Hamas movement in Gaza and Israel, under direct Egyptian mediation.According to a…

A number of Israeli reinforcements have been near the border with Gaza, following last night’s round of airstrikes and rocket fire.’We are moving and we have moved forces in order…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that at least ten Palestinians have been injured, on Thursday at dawn, in a series of Israeli air strikes targeting different parts of the besieged…

Israeli warplanes targeted an area east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, today, according to the Israeli army.’An IDF aircraft targeted a launching site which was used to fire…

Gaza’s Energy and Natural Resources Authority has again warned of a power cut, should imported fuel quantities remain in limited supply.In a recent press statement, Al Ray reports, the Authority…

The Israeli Air Force carried out, on Tuesday before dawn, at least 34 air strikes targeting different areas of the Gaza Strip, causing excessive property damage, and at least four…

The Israeli Air Force has escalated its aggression against the Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza Strip, and conducted dozens of air strikes targeting different areas in the coastal enclave.The…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that one Palestinian was killed and two were injured on Sunday evening, after being struck by an Israeli missile east of the town of al-Qarara,…

The military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, has claimed responsibility for the launching of rockets in the Gaza Strip towards Eshkol, in southern Israel.Fighters from…

The Israeli Air Force carried out, on Sunday at dawn, a series of air strikes targeting different areas in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip, causing excessive property damage.The Palestinian…

The Hamas movement has denounced the latest Israeli military escalation against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and said that Israel’s failure in the West…

Palestinian medical sources reported, on Saturday evening, that two civilians were injured when the Israeli army fired rounds of live ammunition and shells into a Palestinian area east of Khan…

Media sources in the besieged Gaza Strip have reported that the Israeli Air Force attacked several targets and areas in the coastal region, causing excessive property damage.The sources said that…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that two Palestinians have been killed, and three others injured, when an Israeli drone fired a missile at a car, in the ash-Shati’ refugee camp,…

Gaza’s only power plant is still running today, after fuel was permitted entry into the Strip via Israel, just a day after the power authority warned that the plant would…

On Tuesday evening, June 24, the Israeli Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes targeting different parts of the Gaza Strip; two Palestinians injured. A child was accidentally killed…

[Saturday Evening, June 21, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that two Palestinians were shot and injured by Israeli army fired east of Jabalia, in the northern part of the…

A supply of diesel donated by Qatar, used to fuel Gaza’s sole power plant, is to run out tomorrow. Palestinian PM Rami Hamdallah has denied that his government refused to…

[Friday, June 20, 2014] Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that local rescue teams managed to locate the bodies of all slain Palestinians, killed Thursday, under the…

[Friday At Dawn, June 20, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that at least six Palestinians have been injured, in a series of Israeli air strikes targeting different parts of…

[Thursday, June 19, 2014] Israeli soldiers kidnapped two Palestinian fishermen in Gaza waters, in northern Gaza, and a Palestinian patient at the Erez terminal, as he was heading to an…

[Thursday At Dawn, June 19 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that several civilians were injured, and excessive property damage was reported, as the Israeli Air Force fired missiles into…

[Tuesday At Dawn, June 16, 2014] The Israeli air force fired several missiles targeting different areas in Gaza City, and Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip,…

Monday at dawn – June 16, 2014: Palestinian medical sources have reported that several Palestinians have been injured, and many suffered anxiety attacks, after the army fired missiles into different…

Two Palestinian women have been injured as a result of an Israeli warplane attack, last night. Several locations in the Gaza Strip were targeted.One of the injured is a 15-year-old…