Hamas says Beit Lahia Thursday casualties were killed in internal explosion
The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, stated on Friday that the eight residents, including a child, who were killed in Beit Lahia on Thursday died due to…
Three Palestinians killed during the Israeli shelling targeting the Gaza Strip
Three Palestinian resistance fighters were killed on Friday morning during an Israeli shelling targeting the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Local sources said that Israeli jet fighters fired missiles…
Haniyya’s government cracks down on collaborators with the occupation
Ismail Haniyya, Prime Minister of the Palestinian dissolved government, which is still active in Gaza, stated on Thursday evening that his government managed to crack down of network of collaborators…
Twelve killed, including a baby, as an unknown explosion rips a Gazan home
Twelve Palestinian civilians, among them a baby were killed on Thursday midday as an explosion ripped through a house in Beit Lahyia town located in the northern part of the…
Gaza: three Palestinian resistance fighters killed by Israeli army fire
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army has killed three Palestinian resistance fighters in two separate incidents on Thursday morning. The Al Aqsa brigades the armed wing of the Palestinian…
Gaza: during Israeli shelling one man killed, his granddaughter injured along with two civilians
55 year old Mohamed Assalyiah, 55, was killed his 10 year old granddaughter injured along with two civilians during an Israeli air strike targeting Jabaliya refugee camp located in the…
Death toll of patients in Gaza reaches 184 due to the Siege
Palestinians said that two more patients died on Tuesday at night due to the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip. Fouziah Fakher, 59, died on Tuesday night after surfing from…
Letter from captured Israeli soldier released
In what the Hamas leadership called a “goodwill gesture to Jimmy Carter” in exchange for his meeting with the group, the Islamic movement released a letter written by captured Israeli…
Three Palestinians killed in two separate Israeli army attack on Gaza
Palestinian sources reported that three Palestinian resistance fighters were killed during two separate Israeli attacks targeting Gaza City on Tuesday midday. The first attack targeted a group of resistance fighters…
Two Palestinians killed in Rafah as underground tunnels collapsed
One Palestinian man was killed on Monday late night when an underground tunnel collapsed on him in the city of Rafah; the tunnel was connecting the besieged Gaza Strip and…
Palestinian resistance groups shells areas near the Gaza Strip
Three Palestinian resistance groups based in the Gaza Strip fired home-made shells at Israeli areas located near the coastal region on Monday. The shelling targeted army tanks located in the…
An award for the voiceless in Gaza
The siege of Gaza has many layers. I work here as a journalist, amid near-daily air and land assaults from Israel, amid the unending killings and destruction of land and…
Haaretz: A large Israeli military action on Gaza not before two weeks
Israeli military sources believed that a large military offensive on Gaza won’t take place before two weeks, the Israeli online Daily Haaretz reported on Sunday. The sources told Haaretz on…
Health ministry of Gaza warns of a health crisis
The Hamas-run ministry warned on Sunday of a health crisis in Gaza due to the continued fuel shortage in the coastal region, a ministry’s statement read. The statement, delivered to…
Palestinian Prime Minister of Hamas makes contacts for a unity deal
Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniya of Hamas, made on Saturday contacts with several Arab leaders in the region over conciliation between the ruling Hamas party in Gaza and the ruling…
A Qassam fighter killed , two others wounded in an Israeli shelling in Gaza
A Qassam fighter has been reportedly killed and another wounded after the Israeli army artillery shelled a number of Palestinian resistance fighters to the east of Gaza city, late on…
Police arrests a suspect involved in attacks against Christian organizations in Gaza
The Palestinian police in Gaza arrested on Saturday a man suspected of involvement in organizing attacks against Christian associations in the Gaza Strip. Iyahb Al Eghsson, the spokesman of the…
Two patients die due to the Israeli siege on Gaza
The spokesman of the Popular Committee Against the Israeli Siege on Gaza, Rami Abedah, said that two Palestinian patients have died on Saturday due to the ongoing Israeli siege. Abedah…
Palestinian police officer and two drug dealers, killed in Gaza gang clashes.
One Palestinian police officer and two drugs dealers were killed during clashes that took place between Palestinian police forces and drug gangs in Gaza City on Friday. Police sources said…
One Palestinian killed, at least 29 injured in night strikes on Gaza
Palestinian sources said that a Palestinian man was killed and at least 29 others were injured during several Israeli air raids targeting the Gaza Strip on Thursday night. Medical sources…
A 4-year-old girl killed, her mother wounded in an Israeli air strike on Gaza
The 4-year-old Aya Alnajjar, was killed on Thursday after noon, and her mother was wounded after an Israeli air strike hit the southern Gaza Strip village of Kheza’a. Palestinian medical…
One Israeli killed, five others wounded in a shell attack on nearby Israel
One Israeli citizen was killed and five others wounded after a homemade shell landed on the Israeli settlement town of Nir Auz, in the southern Israeli region of Negev, near…
An Israeli army force invades into southeastern Gaza
An Israeli army force invaded early on Thursday morning the southeastern Gaza town of Abbassan Alsagheira, under a barrage of heavy gun fire. Witnesses said that a number of Israeli…
Israel closes a border fuel terminal in Gaza
The Israeli army ordered on Wednesday the closure of the Nahal Auz fuel terminal in eastern Gaza city, after a homemade shell landed on a Palestinian-run fuel store, just close…
Olmert pledges a major peace breakthrough this year
Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, pledged on Weddnsday to achieve a major breakthrough in peace negotiations with the Palestinians this year. Israeli radio ‘Hebrew service’ reported that Olmert , who…
Report: Israeli army detained 475 Gaza residents
A recent report, issued by the Palestinian ministry of prisoners affairs in Gaza revealed that the Israeli occupation authorities detained 475 Gaza residents including 45 children and 6 fishermen between…
A Gaza resident injured as a homemade shell lands on a fuel store
A Palestinian resident, said to be a petroleum authority employee, was reportedly injured Wednesday , after a homemade shell landed on a fuel store in the eastern Gaza city neighborhood…
Blockade Worsens Gaza Malnutrition
‘Can you imagine that when a child of mine asks me for one Shekel (USD 0.3), I can’t afford to give it to him? That’s why I remain hidden from…
Gaza patient dies due to Israeli siege, death toll hits 172
Palestinian medical sources said that a Palestinian woman died on Tuesday suffering from a chronic disease that could have been treated had the medicine been available in Gaza. Saousan Al…
The Israeli army invades central Gaza, one soldier recieves light injuries
Israeli troops, tanks and bulldozers invaded areas near Dier Al Balah town located in the central part of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning. Witnesses said that tanks and troops…
Palestinian Prime Minister of Hamas welcomes President Abbas’ remarks
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya of Hamas, welcomed yesterday remarks by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas over possible conciliation between the rival Fatah and Hamas parties. Haniya said in a brief…
A statement: Ahrar Aljaleel brigades planed to assassinate an Israeli minister
In a statement, received by Ramattan News Agency in Gaza, the Ahrar Aljaleel brigades (Freemen of Jaleel brigades), claimed responsibility on Tuesday for attempting to assassinate an Israeli minister. ‘…
Hamas says Abbas-Olmert meeting ‘clumsy’
The ruling Hamas party in Gaza described yesterday the Olmert-Abbas meeting in Jerusalem as 'clumsy'. Spokesman of Hamas, Fawzi Brhoum said in a statement, faxed to press, that the latest…
Report: the Israeli Siege on Gaza leaves 32 patients dead during the month of May
The European Campaign to end the Siege on Gaza issued a report on Monday stating that the Israeli 11 months longs siege on the Gaza Strip have left 32 patients…
A Palestinian dies of wounds he sustained several days ago during an Israeli attack
Palestinian medical sources reported on Monday that a Palestinian man died of wounds he sustained during an Israeli attack targeting the Beit Lahiya town in the northern part of the…
PRC vows to strike back against any Israeli army attack
The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) vowed on Sunday to strike back against any Israeli army attack on Gaza. Abu Ataya, spokesman of the PRC’s armed wing, Annaser Salaheldin brigades, said…
Egypt to reopen Rafah crossing terminal this week
The Egyptian authorities decided yesterday to reopen the Rafah crossing terminal on Egypt-Gaza border line in southern Gaza Strip for three days this week for humanitarian purposes. Palestinian sources at…
Three Qassam fighters wounded during an Israeli army invasion into southern Gaza
Three fighters of the aL-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the ruling Hamas party in Gaza have been reportedly shot and wounded by the Israeli army in southern Gaza. Medical…
UN Fact-finding mission investigates 2006 massacre of 19 Palestinian civilians
A United Nations mission, led by South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, met with Palestinian human rights organizations in Gaza this week to begin their investigation of a 2006 Israeli attack…
One killed and 16 wounded in an explosion at house in Gaza City
On Palestinian was killed and another 16 injured when an explosion took place at a house located in Gaza City on Saturday morning. Medical sources said that among those 16…
Forced to go green in Gaza
Al-Khozendar Electronics in Gaza City has become a recent point of pilgrimage for many Palestinians. The visitors come to observe Gaza’s latest invention of necessity: an electric car. Gazan engineers…
Israeli forces in Gaza open fire into crowd of unarmed Palestinian protesters
As 3,000 Palestinians gathered in a peaceful protest against the year-long Israeli siege on Gaza, Israeli forces opened fire with live ammunition into the crowd, injuring six civilians, two of…
Israeli siege on Gaza claims the lives of 54 children
Rami Abdo, spokesperson of the Popular Committee Against the Siege stated that the Israeli occupation is committing crimes against the children in the Gaza Strip, as a large number of…
One civilian dies of wounds sustained on Wednesday
Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian civilian was announced dead on Thursday due to wounds he sustained on Wednesday. Ahmad Al Omour, was pronounced dead after surfing wounds during…
UN’s Tutu feels ashamed of international silence towards Gaza conditions
Chairman of the United Nations probe panel on the Israeli army killing of 19 Palestinian civilians in northern Gaza in November2006, former South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu expressed shame over…
An Israeli army contingent invades northern Gaza, kidnaps locals
An Israeli army contingent invaded early on Thursday morning the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanoun and kidnapped several local residents. Witnesses said that the Israeli army’s tanks and…
670 University students trapped in Gaza, cannot go back to their universities abroad
The Education Committee at the Israeli Knesset discussed on Wednesday the Israeli rejection of barring university students from the Gaza Strip from leaving the coastal region to study in European…
Two Palestinian fighters killed, nine others wounded in separate Israeli attacks on Gaza
Two Palestinian fighters have been reportedly killed and nine others wounded on Wednesday, in two Israeli air strikes and a ground invasion into separate Gaza areas. Palestinian medical sources said…
Gaza: One Palestinian woman and her two children injured due to unknown explosion
Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian woman and two of her children were injured during an unknown explosion hit their home located in Gaza City on Tuesday morning. Doctors…
Patient no. 167 dies in Gaza due to the Israeli blockade
One more Palestinian patient died on Tuesday after having been denied access treatment outside of the Gaza Strip, raising the death toll of such patients to 167. The spokesman of…
Haaretz: Israeli military to deploy a defense system near the Gaza Strip
An anti-rocket defense system will be operating soon near the Gaza Strip, in what Israeli military says a bid to minimize harm caused by Palestinian homemade shells fire by almost…
163 patients die due to the 11 months Israeli siege on Gaza
Palestinian sources reported on Monday that a Palestinian patient died in the Gaza Strip on Sunday evening due to Israeli siege imposed on the Palestinian coastal region.Hind Al Ashkar, from…
Israeli army vacates an army post near Gaza
The Israeli army vacated on Sunday a military outpost near the Gaza Strip, Israeli media sources reported. ‘ For the first time since Israel withdrew forces from the Gaza Strip,…
Israeli army invades Gaza areas as homemade shells fire continues
The Israeli army troops invaded into the eastern Gaza neighborhood of Alshijaiya early on Sunday morning, as a number of tanks rolled into the vicinity of the Sufa commercial crossing…
Israel reopens Eritz crossing and allows limited shipments of fuel into Gaza
The Israeli authorities reopened on Sunday the Eritz checkpoint in northern Gaza Strip to allow entry of patients in need of medical care outside of Gaza, Israeli media sources reported.…
13 Palestinians wounded in the Gaza Strip on Saturday
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that 13 Palestinians were wounded in several Israeli military attacks that targeted two areas in Khan Younis, in the southern part of…
Israeli siege leads to soaring anemia in Gaza newborns
The Israeli siege of Gaza that has restricted access to food, water, and medicine is beginning to cause serious problems for newborn babies and pregnant mothers. “Many babies are born…
Al Qassam Brigades: ‘if the ceasefire talks fail, we are prepared to use all options’
The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, stated that if the efforts by the Egyptians to mediate a truce between the Palestinian resistance groups based in…
An Israeli security chief in Cairo to listen from Egyptians about truce talks
Chief of the political and security division of the Israeli army, Amos Gil’ad , will arrive in Cairo today in order to listen from Egyptian mediators about latest round of…
The Israeli army tanks leaves Gaza after killing five and kidnapping 25 others
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army has killed on Friday five Palestinian fighters and kidnapped 25 other civilians during two invasions targeting the southern and central parts of the…
Gaza patients in need of treatment sue Israel over siege
The United Nations News Agency, IRIN, issued a report on Thursday documenting the cases of several Palestinians who have filed petitions in Israel's High Court challenging their imprisonment inside the…
British, US Agencies: Israel’s siege on Gaza causing severe economic, health crisis
With the people of the Gaza Strip beginning their third year of living under siege, a representative of the US Agency for International Development told the Palestinian news agency Ma'an…
One killed 14 injured when Israeli troops attacked a peaceful protest east of Gaza
One Palestinian civilians was killed and 14 other injured when the Israeli troops opened fire at the peaceful protest that took place and the Al Mentar crossing in the eastern…
Prime Minister of Hamas wants end of siege before truce is achieved
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya of the ruling Hamas in Gaza, stated on Thursday that the Palestinian people and factions can not grant a truce to the ‘ Israeli occupation’…
Israel reopens Sufa commercial crossing in southern Gaza
The Israeli army authorities reopened on Thursday afternoon the Sufa commercial crossing in southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources told media outlets earlier that the Israeli authorities closed the main food…
A Nakba inherited
At the southernmost area of the Gaza Strip, where the Philadelphia route separates the coastal enclave from Egypt, there are scores of knocked down buildings. The destruction dates back to…
The Israeli army invades Gaza and kills a farmer while Palestinian resistance attack Erez crossing
Two Palestinian resistance groups have carried out a suicide attack targeting the Israeli border crossing of Erez located at the northern Israel-Gaza borders on Thursday morning. A truck loaded with…
Former security personnel in Gaza call for a strike on June14
Several police and security officers, who used to be linked to the routed Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, called on Wednesday for a general strike in June14, 2008…
Alqassam Brigades of Hamas say one of their fighters killed in central Gaza Strip
The Alqassam brigades, the armed wing of the ruling Islamist Hamas party in Gaza claimed on Wednesday that one of their fighters was killed early in the morning to the…
Shalit’s father says Israel must ensure release of his son
Father of the captured Israeli soldier, Gil’ad Shalit, Hamas and other resistance factions hold in Gaza since 2006, said yesterday that Israel must ensure the release of his son. No’am…
The Islamic Jihad in Gaza uncovers a network of collaborators with Israel
The Islamic Jihad group said it has uncovered a network of collaborators with Israel, made up of seven persons, in the southern parts of Gaza Strip. In a statement, faxed…
Fighters capture collaborates responsible for assassinations against resistance leaders
Abu Ahmad, spokesperson of the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, stated on Tuesday that his group captured a cell of seven collaborates working with the…
Another patient dies due to the siege, death toll mounts to 160
Spokesperson of the Popular Committee Against the Siege in Gaza, Rami Abdo, stated on Tuesday that Dr. Abdul-Karim Hussein, 69, died of brain tumor after he was unable to leave…
Five Palestinians, including one child, killed in Gaza on Tuesday
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported that five Palestinians, including one child, were killed in separate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Medical sources reported that a…
Egyptian border police uncover seven tunnels between Gaza and Egypt
Egyptian security sources reported on Tuesday that Egyptian border police at the crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt have uncovered seven underground tunnels on Monday night. The tunnels were…
Israel agrees to a truce with Hamas if Shalit is released
Israel agreed to a truce deal with the ruling Hamas party in Gaza, if the captured Israeli soldier, Gil’ad Shalit, is released from his captivity in Gaza, Palestinian media sources…
Human rights group documents Israeli use of illegal force against civilians in Gaza
The Al Haq Center for Human Rights, based in Gaza, has issued a report documenting numerous violations of international law by Israeli forces during a May 14th invasion of the…
Palestinian patient dies in Gaza; death toll due to continued Israeli siege stands at 158
Palestinian medical sources reported that Abed Al Karem Al Ghalbaan, 57, died at midday on Monday in a Gaza City hospital. Doctors stated that Al Ghalbaan, had contracted cancer of…
Human Rights Groups in Gaza slam the government for barring a protest commemorating the Nakba
The Palestinian Police, which is under the control of the dissolved Hamas government in Gaza, barred on Friday a peaceful procession commemorating the Nakba. The police also barred a Women…
Two sick patients, one infant and one adult, die due to ongoing siege on Gaza
Rami Abdo, spokesperson of the Popular Committee Against the Siege, reported on Saturday that an eight-month old infant and a 45-year old man died due to the ongoing siege in…
Israeli forces withdraw from southern Gaza after kidnapping three civilians
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army left the city of Rafah located in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday midday. Witnesses said that Israeli tanks and bulldozers invaded Al-Shouka…
Two Islamic Jihad fighters wounded in northern Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported that two fighters of the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, were wounded on Friday evening after the Israeli air force targeted…
Hamas to delay Cairo visit for next week
The Islamic Hamas movement delayed a visit to the Egyptian capital, Cairo until next week, a Hamas senior official stated on Friday.Hamas was to send a delegation to discuss the…
Two fighters killed east of Gaza, six Palestinians killed on Wednesday
Palestinian sources reported that two fighters of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, were killed late on Wednesday at night, and three others were injured after being…
Representatives of Palestinian factions to meet again in Cairo over ceasefire
The ruling Hamas party in Gaza said on Wednesday it received an official invitation from Cairo for a new round of ceasefire talks after Israel responded yesterday to Egypt-mediated Hamas…
Gaza residents queue overnight for cooking gas
As the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip enters its 11th month, the population’s living conditions further deteriorate, with scores of people in different parts of the coastal region lining…
Two patients die in Gaza, death toll of patients due to the Israeli siege stands at 153
Palestinian medical sources reported in Wednesday morning that two Palestinian patients have died on Tuesday night due to the continued Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip. Doctors said that Misbah…
The Israeli army attacks on the Gaza Strip leaves 4 killed and 15 injured
Palestinian medical sources said that four Palestinians were killed and 15 others injured during a number of Israeli army attacks targeting deferent parts of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Three…
Human Rights groups deliver medical aid to Gaza
Human Rights and Peace groups managed to send a convoy of medical supplies to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The convoy arrived at the Sofa Trade Crossing, the Palestine News…
Hamas’s Alzahar: Israel has a chance to seize during Sulieman’s visit
Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Mahmoud Alzahar, said on Monday that Israel has an opportunity to seize today as the chief of Egyptian intelligence is submitting to Israel the Hamas ceasefire,…
The Islamic Jihad fires two homemade shells onto southern Israel
The Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, known as Saraya Alquds brigades, fired early on Monday two homemade shells onto the Israeli town of Ashkelon, about 12 kilometers away from the Gaza…
Gaza bakeries shut down due to lack of fuel supplies
The Society of Bakeries in the Gaza Strip announced on Sunday that all bakeries in the coastal region were forced to shut down midday as fuel supplies could not be…
Israeli is yet to respond to an Egyptian-mediated truce offer
As Egyptian intelligence chief, Omar Sulieman is set to hold talks on Monday with Israeli officials over Cairo-mediated Palestinian ceasefire offer, the Israeli cabinet discussed on Sunday the current situation.…
Energy authority: Israel blocks shipments of industrial diesel to Gaza’s power plant
The Palestinian energy authority said on Sunday that the Israeli authorities blocked on Sunday morning delivery of industrial crude diesel to Gaza’s power plant, which generate’s electricity to Gaza’s population.…
Rafah crossing to be opened for three days starting on Saturday
Palestinian sources reported that the Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Eygpt to be opened for three days starting on Saturday. The Rafah crossing, the only was in or…
Unknown gunmen attack a coffee shop in central Gaza
Palestinian security sources reported that a group of unknown gunmen attacked a coffee shop located in the town of Dier Al Balah, in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday. The…
A Palestinian man dies of earlier wounds and the Israeli army polls out of southern Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian man died due to wounds he sustained erilier in the week during an Israeli air-strike targeting the northern Gaza strip town of Beit…
Five Palestinians killed, Seven wounded in Gaza Air strikes
Five Palestinians have been killed and at least seven were wounded in two separate Israeli air strikes at residential areas in the Gaza Strip on Friday.Medical sources reported that three…
Her blood remains to tell a story of another Israeli military crime
Blood, destruction, tears and children crying is what the Israeli occupation soldiers left behind after they withdrew from Abasan Al Jadeeda town, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part…
Gaza Power Company to stop due to lack of fuel
Gaza Power Company, the main distributer of electricity in the Gaza Strip, stated on Thursday that it would have to shut down in the coming hours as it ran of…