EU Press release on breach of the WAll in Rafah
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…
After a one day respite on Tuesday, Israel resumes fuel blockade of Gaza strip
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 kills two Palestinians in two separate attacks on the Gaza Strip
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 cross Rafah borders; Hamas says it’s the decision of the people
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 army kills and one and injuries four in invasion to eastern Rafah
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,…
Resistance fires homemade shells at settlements near the Gaza Strip
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 Popular Committees appeals the international Community to save Gaza from imminent disaster
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…
Scores of Palestinian women protest at the Rafah Crossing southern Gaza
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…
Israel: fuel shipment to Gaza to thwart UN Security Council condemnation of Gaza siege
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…
Israeli tanks shells civilians in southern Gaza Strip, no injures reported
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…
Despite entry of fuel shipments to Gaza, the crisis persists
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…
Gaza: man dies of wounds sustained earlier in the week, while navy attacks fishermen
Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian man died on Tuesday morning due to wounds he sustained in Israeli army attacks on Sunday. The Islamic Jihad armed wing, Al Qudes…
Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza for one day only; Palestinians condemn ‘token’ gesture
After a widespread international outcry followed Israel's cut-off of all fuel into Gaza on Sunday, Israeli authorities agreed to allow fuel and medicine into the Palestinian coastal region on Tuesday…
Senior Israeli defense official: Collective punishment works
In a statement to the Israeli press Monday, a senior Israeli official claimed that the collective punishment of the entire Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip was an effective way…
Israeli groups call for lifting the Gaza Blockade
A number of Israeli groups called for Saturday, January 26, to be a countrywide relief convoy and demonstration in Israel in solidarity on the Gaza border with a parallel Palestinian…
Gaza demonstrates against the Israeli siege
Thousands of Palestinians, including children, public figures and medics, took out to the streets of Gaza city on Monday, in protest of the crippling siege, Gaza Strip has been going…
While Army intensifies Siege, Israeli PM: ‘We will not allow humanitarian crises in Gaza,’
The Israeli Prime Minister Ehod Olmert stated on Monday that Israel will not allow a humanitarian crises to take place in Gaza, meanwhile the Israeli Defense Minister Ehod Barak ordered…
Gaza power cuts leave people cold physically, emotionally
Israeli fuel cuts in Gaza are affecting daily life, particularly now as the region has been experiencing an uncommonly cold winter. "We went four days without having electricity during the…
A Palestinian killed in northern Gaza as Israeli aircrafts shell a home
Israeli aircrafts shelled overnight Sunday an occupied home in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza. The attack left one Palestinian killed another two injured, one critically and were moved to…
Israel admits there’s a crisis as Gaza power plant grids to a halt
On Sunday, due to lack of fuel supplies from Israel, the Gaza power plant stopped operations. Sunday night, Israeli security officials admitted that the impacts of Israel's complete cut-off of…
Fatah and PFLP plea to countries for lifting Gaza siege
The largest parties of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), appealed to world countries including the Arab ones to move immediately…
Gaza plunged into terrifying darkness and Israel vows more pressure
Gazans spent Sunday night in terrifying darkness after the supply of fuel was cut on the area. Hamas sources said that power shortages caused the death of a hospital patient,…
A Fatah-linked resistance fighter killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza
A new Israeli air strike on Gaza killed early on Monday a Fatah-linked fighter and injured three others critically. Dr. Moawiya Abu Hasanin, chief of ambulance and emergency department at…
UNRWA’s Operations Director appeals for resolving ongoing Gaza crisis
Operations Director of United Nations Work and Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza, Jhon Gang, appealed Sunday night for resolving an ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.…
Siyam: “Security forces arrested a suicide bomber who intended to kill Haniyyaâ€
Palestinian Legislator of the Hamas movement, previous Minister of Interior, Sa’id Siyam, stated on Friday that Hamas-controlled security forces in the Gaza Strip arrested a resident who intended to carry…
Israel closes Gaza Crossing to UN Aid and Kills 37 Palestinians
According to the UN, about half the strip's 1.5 million people no longer have access to fresh water, because Israel has been restricting fuel supplies, which in turn halts pumps…
Israeli jet fighters attack northern Gaza killing two, death toll stands at 37 this week
Palestinian sources reported that two Palestinians said to be resistance fighters for Al Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas were killed on Saturday morning, when Israeli jet fighters fired…
Israel seals off Gaza; prevents UN aid from entering
After over six months of closure, the 1.5 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip have come to depend heavily on aid from the United Nations. Although they are willing…
Resistance strikes force Israeli army to dismantle new military post in Gaza
Talal Abu Tharefa, member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), stated on Friday that the Israeli army was forced to dismantle a…
One woman killed and forty injured in an Israeli air strike on Gaza city
Israeli jet fighters attacked the Palestinian Ministry of Interior building located in Gaza city; one woman and ten other civilians had been reportedly killed in the attack that took place…
One Palestinian killed, two injured in an Israeli air strike on Gaza
One Palestinian, said to be a fighter, has been reportedly killed and two others wounded, when an Israeli warplane fired a missile on a group of people in northern Gaza…
Media office in Gaza: Israeli army evacuates a military base in Khan Younis
A media office in Khan Younis stated on Friday that the Israeli evacuation of one of its military bases took place in Khaza’a town, east of Khan Younis. According to…
Human Rights Advocates Meet United Nations Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
On Tuesday, 15 January 2008, Mr. Issam Younis, Director of Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Mr. Khalil Abu Shammaleh, Director of Ad Dameer Association for Human Rights, and Talal…
Fresh Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya in Northern Gaza strip leaves three killed from the same family
Palestinian sources reported that a fresh Israeli air raid targeting a horse carriage in the northern Gaza strip town of Beit Lahiya left three members of a Palestinian family killed…
A Palestinian and his wife killed in a new Israeli air strike on Gaza
In an ‘apparently’ total disregard to civilian lives in Gaza, an Israeli warplane fired a missile on a car in northern Gaza Strip, killing a Palestinian and his wife. Palestinian…
Jordan grants treatment to 28 Gaza patients as Israeli closure continues
The standoff of stranded Gaza patients, who are in need of emergency treatment abroad, has reportedly been partially resolved today, as about 28 urgent cases will be moving to Jordan…
Gaza’s fate left to the whim of an Israeli court
It’s almost midnight. I rushed to my laptop when I saw the glow of the lamp after almost 12 hours darkness following one of the electricity cuts that hundreds of…
A fresh Israeli air strike on central Gaza leaves two Palestinians dead
Two Palestinians, said to be fighters, have been killed in a new fresh Israeli air strike on central Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening. An Israeli drone hit a missile on…
3 Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli missile strike
Palestinian sources reported that Israeli jet fighters launched two missiles at a civilian car driving in a road east of Gaza city in the eastern part of the Gaza strip,…
Hamad: Resistance without political cover will not accomplish its goals
Ghazi Hamad, a spokesman of the Hamas government in Gaza, stated that there is a need to re-assess the resistance war and to reset the political agenda. He emphasized the…
Army ends its offensive in eastern Gaza leaving 17 dead and 45 injured
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army military offensive in the eastern part of the Gaza Strip that started on Tuesday at dawn has come to an end, leaving 17…
GAZA: LIFT THE BLOCKADE!!
Saturday, January 26th, relief convoys will depart from Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beer Sheva, bearing signs “GAZA: LIFT THE BLOCKADE!” Converging at Yad Mordechai at 12 noon, the rally…
While leaders talk peace, three Palestinians killed by Israeli missile
Three Palestinians were killed early Monday morning when Israeli army jet fighters attacked a car near the house of Hamas leader and deposed Palestinian Primer Isma'il Haniyya, located in Gaza…
Food insecurity continues to rise in Gaza
Geneva_(dpa) _ The number of people requiring food aid has risen sharply in the Gaza Strip since the closure of the main Karni border crossing point in June, according to…
UK officials concerned over the Israeli fuel cuts on Gaza
David Milipand, the British Minister of Foreign Affairs and Douglas Alexander, the British Minister of International Development stated on Saturday that they are concerned over the effects of the Israeli…
Patient number 70 dies due to the Israeli siege on Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian patient died on Saturday after the Israeli army refused to allow him to leave the coastal region for medical care. The sources said…
Israeli medical delegation condemns Israel’s siege of Gaza
A delegation of four Israeli members of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel), including three doctors and PHR-Israel's Clinic Manager, entered Gaza Wednesday as part of an emergency medical caravan.In addition,…
Israeli military jams Palestinian radio with propaganda
According to local sources, several Palestinian radio stations on the FM radio dial in the Gaza Strip have been jammed by Israeli military propaganda. The stations, which were affiliated with…
Israeli artillery fire on northern Gaza leaves two Palestinians dead
Two Palestinians including a woman have been reportedly killed and three others wounded Wednesday when the Israeli artillery opened heavy fire towards a gathering of Palestinians near a house in…
Thousands of Palestinians protest Bush’s visit in Gaza
The Hamas movement which controls the Gaza Strip organized a protest on Wednesday afternoon against Bush’s visit to Israel and Palestine that started today. According to Hamas sources, thousands have…
A Living Martyr
‘He insisted that we all take a photo; it was the first in the last 12 years since we got married, as if he was feeling his death was approaching,’…
Islamic Jihad group in Gaza rejects Bush’s Visit
Islamic Jihad senior leader in Gaza, Nafed Azzam, asserted yesterday that his group is utterly rejecting George W. Bush’s visit to the occupied West Bank, saying that the Islamic Jihad…
Israeli military kills one Palestinian, wounds six in missile strike on Gaza
Early Wednesday morning, the Israeli military fired a surface-to-surface missile at a group of Palestinians that they claimed were launching a homemade shell from the northern Gaza Strip. The Islamic…
PCHR Calls for an immediate end to attacks against Fatah offices, affiliated Institutions in Gaza
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns attacks against offices of the Fatah movement and affiliated institutions in Gaza City, as well as attacks against the campus of…
A senior Hamas leader calls on Palestinians to boycott Bush’s visit
Senior Hamas leader in Gaza, Mahmoud aL-Zahar, called Tuesday on the Palestinian side to boycott American President Gorge W. Bush, who will be visiting the region on Wednesday. aL-Zahar was…
Gaza businessmen concerned over continued Gaza closure
A number of businessmen in the Gaza Strip wondered as to how U.S President Gorge W. Bush, promises the Palestinians with a Palestinian state, with all Gaza’s travel and commercial…
Shortly before Bush’s visit, Palestinian Fayyad meets with Israeli Barak
Governor of Nablus city in the West Bank, Mahmoud Burhum, stated on Tuesday that Palestinian Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad is to meet with Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak today over…
Five injured in unknown explosion in Gaza
Palestinian sources reported that five Palestinians from the same family were injured on Monday evening when an explosion hit their home located in Gaza city. Medical sources reported that five…
Palestinian resistance fires projectiles toward Israeli military base
The An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committee, claims to have launched 14 projectiles toward the Israeli military base at Kissufim, in central Gaza. No…
Three Palestinians, including a woman, killed by Israeli army in central Gaza
Palestinian medics reported on Sunday that three Palestinian residents including a woman and a teen, have been killed by Israeli gunshots in the central Gaza Strip refugee camp of Buraij…
Gaza back to blackout due to Israel-imposed fuel supplies cut, say energy officials
Gaza Strip has begun to suffer a renewed blackout as power outages still go on due to shortage of fuel supplies after Israel has ruled large reduction of the fuel,…
Israeli prime minister to further strike resistance in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, vowed on Sunday to further strike Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza. ‘ Israel will strike terror in every corner in the Gaza Strip’, Olmert told…
Three Palestinians killed in renewed Israeli attacks on Gaza
Israeli army incurred early on Sunday morning into the central refugee camp of Buraij, killing one resident and injuring three others. Palestinian medical sources identified the killed as Ziyad Abu…
Cancer patient dies due to the Israeli army siege on Gaza
Medical sources in Gaza reported that a Palestinian cancer patient had died on Saturday morning; the aged woman was prevented by the Israeli army from leaving the Gaza Strip for…
Israeli warplane fires missiles at home of assassinated fighter
The family of Karim Dadouh, who was extrajudicially assassinated by Israeli forces several months ago, has been made homeless by the Israeli airforce, which fired a targeted missile at the…
Two Qassam fighters killed by Israeli army in Beit Hanoun
Two Palestinians, said to be members of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, were killed early on Friday morning during an armed clash with an Israeli army force…
One Palestinian security officer injured in renewed internal clashes in Gaza
At least one Palestinian security officer was wounded on Tuesday morning during renewed Hamas-Fatah clashes that took place near the Karni commercial crossing, in the north east of the Gaza…
Troops invade an area in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, kidnap several residents
Palestinian sources reported on Monday evening that Israeli soldiers invaded an area close to the Sofa crossing, east of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, broke…
Two Palestinians killed in Gaza infighting
Palestinian sources in the Gaza strip reported that two Palestinians were killed in two separate incidents of infighting on Monday. Ahmad Abu Odah, 20, was shot and killed by unknown…
Israeli army launches limited invasion of southern Gaza
Israeli forces have launched a limited ground-invasion of the southern Gaza Strip, firing live ammunition and destroying agricultural land in the process.Launching the incursion from the Sufa crossing on Monday…
Female anchors protest death threats in Gaza
Female journalists, threatened with death by a radical Islamic group if they do not adhere to more conservative attire, demonstrated on Sunday in front of the Palestinian parliament building in…
Prior to Abbas-Olmert talks, Hamas shells Eritz checkpoint in northern Gaza
The armed wing of Hamas fired mortar shells on the Israeli military checkpoint of Eretz in northern Gaza, slightly wounding four Israeli soldiers, on Sunday. . A statement released by…
Senior member of Al Quds Brigades killed in Israeli air strike
Fadi Abu Mustafa, a prominent figure in the Al Quds Brigades, was killed in Khan Younis on Friday evening when he was targeted by an Israeli air strike.Considered to be…
Two 12-year olds killed by Israeli forces in Gaza
Israeli and Palestinian sources have confirmed the killing of two children near the former Israeli settlement of Dugit, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The two were identified…
Palestinian boy dies from wounds sustained in Israeli attack
Medical sources have reported the death of Hamza Al Masri, 16, after succumbing to wounds sustained in an Israeli attack. Al Masri suffered extensive wounds last month when Israeli military…
Video of captured BBC journalist released.
A video of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston has appeared on the internet. The video shows Johnston alive and well.In the first pictures seen since his abduction in Gaza on…
Palestinian resistance fighters escape Israeli air strike
Palestinian sources reported that a group of Palestinian resistance fighters escaped a deadly Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza strip on Thursday. Medical sources reported that two men were…
Israeli drone kills two Palestinian resistance fighters in northern Gaza strip
Two Palestinian resistance fighters from the Hamas linked Qassam brigades were announced dead after an Israeli drone fired several missiles at a group of resistance fighters east of Jabalyia, a…
Three Palestinians killed in a mysterious explosion in central Gaza
Three Palestinians have been killed and two others injured in an explosion that rocked a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said that a large…
Shortly after Olmert orders further attacks on Gaza, a warplane hits Deir Elbalah
Just few hours after Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, ordered further attacks on the Gaza Strip, an Israeli warplane, hit today the Deir Elbalah town in central Gaza Strip.Palestinian sources…
aL-Qassam of Hamas vows more rocket fire, as an Israeli killed in Sderot
aL-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the governing Hamas movement renewed Sunday vow to continue homemade shells into nearby Israeli towns unless Israeli attacks on Gaza come to a halt,…
Five residents injured in separate Israeli air strikes in Gaza, one resident died of earlier wounds
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Saturday at night that five residents were injured in two separate Israeli air strikes that targeted the Jabalia refugee camp, and…
A series of Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill five people, injure 25 others
Frequent Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed on Saturday five Palestinians and injured 25 others, medics reported. Local sources confirmed that five Palestinians, of whom are Mohammad Aldiry and Ali…
Three Israeli air strikes wound five people, hit Palestinian PM’s guards
Israeli air strikes carried out in the early morning hours of Saturday have killed two Palestinians, and wounded at least five. The air strikes were targeting Palestinians connected with the…
Cairo to host a new round of Hamas-Fatah dialogue
Cairo proposed Friday hosting representatives of the rival Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, over cementing their mid-May ceasefire and reaching a common ground on the ceasefire with Israel. The Egyptian…
Two Hamas resistance fighters killed in an Israeli air strike in eastern Gaza
Two Hamas resistance fighters of the Alqassam brigades, have been reportedly killed and nine others, mainly bystanders, wounded in a new Israeli strike on eastern Gaza, medical sources said. Witnesses…
Abbas calls for an end to “absurd” Qassam rocket attacks on Israel
President Mahmoud Abbas has called on armed Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip to desist from launching Qassam rockets into Israeli territory, claiming such actions are progressively destroying any hope…
Israeli air strikes on Gaza wound six bystanders
Israeli jet fighters fired missiles on Thursday on two Hamas outposts in the Gaza Strip, wounding six bystanders and completely destroying the two compounds.Medical sources said that six bystanders were…
President Abbas calls homemade shells ‘idle’
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas criticized Thursday the Palestinian homemade shells fire, calling them ‘idle’. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas criticized Thursday the Palestinian homemade shells fire, calling them ‘idle’. Abbas’s statement…
Israeli army kills a Palestinian farmer in northern Gaza
Israeli army killed Thursday morning a Palestinian farmer in northern Gaza, confirmed medics. Officials at the Kamal Edwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahiya, said that…
Palestinian government calls for sanctions on Israel
The Palestinian coalition government called Thursday upon the international community to place sanctions on Israel after the Israeli army took prisoners earlier in the day 33 Hamas leaders including a…
Two injured in rival families fight in Gaza
Two Palestinian men were injured on Thursday midday during rival families fight in the Dier Al Balah town in central Gaza strip. Palestinian medical sources in the town reported that…
Army shells Gaza and Rafah, at least four residents injured
Palestinian medical and security sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday at night that Israeli soldiers shelled several stores in Gaza City, and a residential area close to the…
Abbas and Haniya agree to a joint force to fix Hamas-Fatah ceasefire
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and his Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya of Hamas agreed Wednesday to a joint force to fix a Hamas-Fatah ceasefire, reached last week, said Abbas’s…
Abbas and Haniya meet in Gaza, away from media
IMEMC has learned that Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and his Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh began a behind-closed-doors meeting on Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday’s meeting comes hours after the two leaders secretly…