Israeli army carries out an incursion into Rafah city
The Israeli army carried out early on Thursday a small-scale incursion into the southern Gaza Strip of Rafah. Witnesses in Rafah told news agencies that the Israeli army tanks fired…
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The Israeli army carried out early on Thursday a small-scale incursion into the southern Gaza Strip of Rafah. Witnesses in Rafah told news agencies that the Israeli army tanks fired…
Concluding a visit to Palestine and Israel, United Nations’ undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, Mr. Jhon Holmes, said in a press conference in Jerusalem today that he is extremely concerned…
Egyptian intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, discussed with his Israeli counterpart, Amos Gil’ad, in Cairo earlier this week the reopening of Rafah crossing terminal in southern Gaza, according to the London-based…
The Salah Eldin brigades, the armed wing of the popular resistance committees said Wednesday it clashed with an Israeli army undercover force near the Kussofim military post to the south…
Palestinian medical sources announced on Tuesday evening that one child died at a Gaza hospital after the Israeli Authorities barred his transfer to a hospital abroad for further medical treatment…
Dr. Ahmad Bahar, acting head of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), demanded the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, to stop all meetings with the Israeli side, and stated that these meeting…
A Palestinian child was shot and killed when the Israeli army opened fire at Palestinian homes located in the central Gaza strip city of Dier Al Balah on Tuesday evening.…
The Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine opposed Tuesday’s meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The movement said that only Israel will benefit from the…
A convoy of food assistance, provided by a group of Israeli peace activists, entered Gaza on Tuesday, through the Israeli-controlled commercial crossing of Sufa in southern Gaza.The convoy, which is…
The Islamic Jihad group in Gaza slammed Tuesday two Gaza-based human rights groups over reports on the latest bombing of a residential building in the central Gaza Strip refugee camp…
Israeli media sources reported Tuesday that a Palestinian homemade shell landed in an Israeli poultry in the southern Israeli settlement of Ashkelon beach, causing a great deal of damage.The Mojahideen…
The ruling Hamas movement in Gaza reiterated Tuesday its opposition to meetings between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert.Hamas’s spokesperson in Gaza, Fawzi Barhoum, cast doubts…
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haaniyeh of Hamas, appealed yesterday to the chief of Arab states league, Amr Mousa, for the sake of supporting the besieged Gaza Strip, where Hamas holds…
A Palestinian resistance fighter of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s armed wing, was shot dead and another was wounded on central Gaza-Israel border line early on Tuesday.Medical…
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, vowed Sunday to strike back heavily against Palestinians, particularly the ruling Hamas in Gaza, once homemade shells fire continues onto Israeli areas, adjacent to Gaza.Olmert,…
The ambulance service in the Gaza Strip announced complete halt of it work on Sunday, due to what the health ministry says a 'severe shortage of fuel', a statement by…
Former advisor to Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya of Hamas, Ahmad Yousef, told the Al-Sharq aL-Awsat London-based Arabic newspaper that Hamas's supreme exiled leader, Khaled Mash'aal has survived a series…
The Israeli army killed early on Sunday dawn four Palestinian resistance fighters, wounded 15 and rounded up 25 residents in southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. Palestinian medical sources announced…
John Holmes, the undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs at the UN visited Gaza on Friday and called for reopening the borders in the Gaza Strip in order to relief the suffering…
Palestinian medical sources reported on Friday at night that eight Palestinians, mainly members of one family, were killed and nearly eighty others were injured when the Israeli air force fired…
The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in Gaza, dominated by the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, slammed on Friday an attack carried by unknown vandals against the Gaza office of the YMCA…
A group of unknown armed men attacked the Y.M.C.A. headquarters on the early hours of Friday .The armed men threw an explosive charge in the association’s library setting it on…
Israeli foreign minister, Tsibi Livni, refused Thursday handover of Gaza’s crossings to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in presence of the ruling Hamas. Livni, who yesterday took 60 world countries’ ambassadors…
Dr. Mahmoud aL-Zahar, a senior political leader of the ruling Hamas movement in Gaza headed Thursday evening for the Egyptian town of aL-Arish for talks over the Rafah crossing terminal.…
The Israeli army invaded areas on the Palestinian side of the northern Gaza-Israel border, and demolished a number of Palestinian-owned buildings on Thursday at midday. Israeli tanks and bulldozers invaded…
The Israeli army invaded the eastern side of the city of Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip and kidnapped 30 Palestinian civilians on Thursday morning. An undercover…
A large number of Gaza vehicles stopped engines for half an hour on Thursday morning, as the fuel shortage crisis has gotten worse , due to continued Israel cut of…
The Hamas-dominated government in Gaza says that any truce ‘Tahdiya’ declaration, is now in Israel’s court and linked with the Israeli actions on the ground. In a statement, faxed to…
Israeli tanks have rolled into the eastern parts of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip, leaving one resistance fighter injured. Witnesses in the area said that at least five…
In a statement faxed to press on Tuesday, Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh of the Hamas movement expressed willingness to reach ‘a state of calm’ in the region, saying that…
The ruling Hamas movement in Gaza considered yesterday the latest Israeli threats against its ranks ‘serious’, yet it said such threats wont deter the movement from keeping up. Mosheer aL-Masri,…
A column of Israeli army tanks rolled back early on Tuesday morning from the eastern neighborhood of Gaza City, after an Israeli army undercover unit attempted to sweep into the…
Two Palestinian bystanders have been wounded on Monday evening after an Israeli air craft fired a missile on a car traveling on a southern Gaza road in Rafah city, witnesses…
Al-Quds brigade, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement declared that they have fired a number of home-made shells at the Israeli town of Sderot, northeast of the Gaza…
Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian man died on Monday at dawn of wounds he sustained last week. The sources identified the man as Saleh Nabhan, doctors said that…
Two Palestinian patients died on Monday due to the Israeli army siege imposed on the Gaza strip, Palestinian sources reported.Medcial sources identified the two as Fathiyyia Abu Wardah, 40, and…
Farmers of flower in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahiya, decided Monday to devastate about 500.0000 square meters, planted with flowers, in protest against inability to export their…
The Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak stated on Monday that he ordered the Israeli army to start preparing for the wide scale offensive against the Gaza Strip. Barak said that…
Spokesperson of the ruling Hamas movement in Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri, considered Sunday that any session of the Palestinian national council (PNC) is illegal for preempting the Cairo agreement on…
On behalf of the Gaza’s committee to break the Israeli blockade, Mr. Janmal aL-Khudari, an independent lawmaker and the committee’s chairman, hailed on Sunday underway worldwide solidarity campaigns with the…
A group of resistance fighters of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), survived Sunday afternoon an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza Strip. The air strike, reportedly hit the fighters in…
Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, confirmed on Sunday that his army will carry out more strikes on the Gaza Strip, as an Israeli minister called for total annihilation of some…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported late of Saturday night that one fighter was killed and at least ten residents, including children, were injured in several Israeli air…
Palestinian legislator Mohammad Al Ghool, from the Hamas movement and head of the Legal Committee at the Palestinian Legislative Council, dominated by Hamas, demanded on Saturday president Mahmoud Abbas to…
Palestinian sources reported on Saturday that two Palestinian resistance fighters were injured due to an Israeli shelling targeting the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hannon. Witnesses reported that unmanned…
During a press conference conducted by ten members of the European Parliament from different political groups, led by Luisa Morgantini, Vice-President of the EU parliament, the members stated that they…
During a visit to an Israeli military base in the south of Israel, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Thursday that the Israeli army will intensify its military operations…
Over the past 24 hours, the Israeli airforce has shot missiles at a number of targets in the Gaza Strip, killing seven Palestinians, including five Hamas fighters and another belonging…
Palestinian media sources reported that a group of unknown gunmen blow up a coffee shop located in down town Rafah city in the southern part of the Gaza strip. According…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday morning that six Palestinians, including one teacher, were killed in three separate Israeli air strikes that targeted several areas in…
The Israeli government decided that as of Thursday February 7 it will reduce electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip, a measure which will affect the civilian population regionThe decision to…
Palestinian sources in the Gaza strip reported that several Palestinian resistance groups had fired a number of Qassam home-made shells at Israeli towns neighboring the coastal region on Wednesday.Three of…
Palestinian sources reported that an Israeli army spy plane fired a missile at a group of Palestinian civilians, on Wednesday morning, in the town of Jabaliya located in the eastern…
At the bus stop at Palestine Square, in the bustling heart of Gaza City, 25-year-old Said Ramadan cried to passersby, ‘Fuel, fuel, fuel! Come and buy!’Last week Ramadan took advantage…
The Palestinian police force in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that the Israeli Tuesday shelling to the police station in Abasan town, near Khan…
Egyptian and Israeli sources reported on Tuesday that Cairo asked Israel to allow more Egyptian troops on the Gaza Egypt borders. The Egyptian government said that the additional troops are…
Two Palestinian resistance fighters were reported killed by the Israeli army during clashes at the southern Gaza Israel borders on Tuesday at dawn. Palestinian sources stated that the Israeli army…
Palestinian sources reported that Israeli jet fighters fired several missiles at Palestinian cars in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya on Monday afternoon, killing one, and injuring two.The…
Israeli media sources reported on Monday that a new letter from Gil’ad Shalit the captured Israeli soldier in the Gaza strip has reached his family.The reports said that the letter…
Israeli daily newspaper Ma’areef reported Sunday that the Islamist Hamas movement has been long planning to have the Gaza Strip economically disengaged from Israel.The newspaper said that during years in…
The Egyptian border guards began Sunday sealing off the Gaza-Egypt border line that has seen influx of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians since January23, after Palestinian fighters knocked down the…
Senior Hamas leader, Mahmoud aL-Zahar, said on Saturday that his movement reiterates its determination that the Rafah crossing terminal will remain ‘Palestinian-Egyptian with no intervention from a third party. Al-Zahar,…
Palestinian sources reported that the Hamas police forces in Gaza released on Friday Omar Al Ghul, 52, after arresting him for six weeks.Al Ghul was appointed as and advisor to…
Palestinian medical sources reported that one Palestinian man died on Saturday after he was denied by the Israeli army to leave the Gaza strip from treatment.Ahmad Al Shareef, 80, was…
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported on Thursday that the European Foriegn Policy Chief, Javier Solana, and Middle East Quartet Envoy, Tony Blair, are scheduled to travel to the area next…
Palestinian medical sources reported that two Palestinian patients from Gaza died on Thursday due to the Israeli siege imposed on the Palestinian coastal region. Cancer patient Arafat Owdah, 23, and…
One Palestinian resistance fighter was killed on Thursday morning during clashes that took place between a group of resistance fighters and Israeli troops near the borders between the southern Gaza…
The Israeli Security Services refused to grant a permit to a Palestinian patient, suffering from Intestines Cancer, to leave the Gaza Strip in order to receive medical treatment in an…
The Islamic Jihad group in Gaza hailed on Wednesday the Fatah-Hamas dialogue in Cairo on running the Rafah crossing terminal, hoping it will lead to reconciliation between the two rival…
At noon on Wednesday, Israeli jet fighters shelled areas in the northern Gaza strip town of Beit Hanoun. Meanwhile, the Palestinian resistance announced that it had shelled an Israeli military…
Palestinian medical sources reported on Wednesday that a Palestinian older woman died late Tuesday night because the Israeli army would not allow her to leave the Gaza Strip for medical…
Palestinian sources reported on Tuesday that President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Egypt on Wednesday to hold talks with Egyptian officials on the situation of the borders between Gaza and Egypt.…
Last week, the Muslim Relief Society in the Negev, which provides relief services for orphans, installed tents and started collecting support which will be transferred to the improvised and besieged…
Palestinian media sources reported on Tuesday that owners of fuel companies in Gaza refused to receive the Israeli shipments of fuel entering Gaza, in protest of the fuel cuts Israel…
Palestinian sources in Gaza conferment that the Egyptian troops started to close the borders between Egypt and the southern coastal city of Rafah on Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday morning Cairo…
On Tuesday, the Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, refused to allow the decision to re-open the Rafah crossing based on the past signed agreement between the Palestinian Authority…
Israeli sources reported on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, and the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, agreed on Sunday to demand Egypt to seal the breached border with the…
The Israeli army allowed on Monday a shipment of fuel to enter the Gaza strip to be used in the production of electricity. The move came after Israeli and Palestinian…
European Union official sources told Reuters on Monday that the Union is studying the possibility of redeploying EU observers on Rafah terminal. In 2005 the Rafah crossing, between Gaza and…
Egyptian foreign minister, Ahmad Abu Elgheit confirmed yesterday Cairo will take the necessary measures to rein in movement of Palestinians at its borders with Gaza, after floods of Gazans flew…
The Popular Resistance Committees declared Tuesday it won’t cede home-made shells fire for electricity and fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip. PRC’s spokesman, Abu Yousef, told press agencies that halting…
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, discussed on Sunday the situation in Gaza, amidst growing concerns over a likely humanitarian crisis, as Israeli closure continues. Media…
Former advisor for the Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniya of Hamas, said Sunday that having the Egypt-Gaza border line reopened by what he termed ‘ the Palestinian people’s will’ can…
Three kids, their mother and their aunt hurried towards the Salah al-Din gate in southern Gaza on Wednesday. The mother, in her early thirties, explained in a rush, ‘We are…
On Friday late a night the Palestinian resistance and civilians living in Gaza breached a section of the iron wall surrounding the Gaza Strip after Egyptian troops closed a previous…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Saturday at night that two patients died in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli Authorities barred them from leaving the Gaza…
Friday 25 January 2007: The seven-month ongoing Israeli blockade is taking an ever-more severe toll on the health system in the Gaza Strip, says aid agency Oxfam International. The one-off…
The Hamas leader and deposed prime minister Isma’el Haniyah stated on Thursday he is willing to negotiate a deal to run the Rafah border crossing with the Palestinian president Mahmoud…
As thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip continued to flow into Egypt through the southern Gaza strip city of Rafah border wall, the Israeli government announced that it will…
Brussels, 23rd January 2008, Rafah: the breach in the wall is an act of freedom and a strong warning to the EU, the Quartet and Egypt "The thousands of…
Israeli sources announced on Wednesday that the Israeli army had stopped all fuel and food supplies shipments from interring the Gaza strip on Wednesday. The Israeli government said that its…
The Israeli army killed two Palestinians on Wednesday in two separate attacks in the Gaza Strip.On Wednesday midday a Palestinian farmer, Isma’el Al Attar, 50, was killed when Israeli army…
Thousands of Palestinians residents of the Gaza strip managed to cross into Egypt in the early hours of Wednesday after the Palestinian resistance destroyed part of the Wall located on…
Israeli forces invaded the border area of Karm Abu Mo’amar, east of Rafah on Wednesday morning, leaving one Palestinian dead and another four injured.Medical sources reported that Yahia al Beyok,…
The Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility on Tuesday evening of firing several homemade shells at Kfar Azza settlement, east of the Gaza Strip,…
The Palestinian Popular (Folk) Committees issued a press release on Tuesday appealing the International Community to intervene and save the Gaza Strip from an imminent humanitarian disaster as the unjust…
Egyptian police and troops attacked the protest using water canon and batons, medical sources reported that at least 20 women suffered injures so far and had to be moved to…
Israeli government sources stated on Tuesday that the latest fuel shipment Israel allowed into the Gaza strip is an attempt to sabotage any Security Council condemnation of the siege imposed…
Palestinian sources reported that on Tuesday midday Israeli tanks shelled a group of Palestinian civilians in Khaza’a village near Khan Younis city in the southern part of the Gaza StripThose…
Israel allowed Tuesday entry of some fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip on the heels of local and international protests to latest Israeli closure of Gaza, media sources reported. Society…