International Middle East Media Center
During the last two days, five civilians, including four children, were injured as two suspicious objects blew up in two separate incidents in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip,…
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, the rival of Fateh movement, strongly denounced the meeting between Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, and Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak.Hamas said that Fayyad is…
Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, stated Monday, that the foreign ministers of Spain, France and Italy will be visiting the Gaza Strip this month to ensure that Israel…
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is gravely concerned by and wishes to highlight the repeated summonsing and detention of dozens of Fatah activists by the Internal Security Service…
The Israeli Air Force carried out several air strikes targeting areas in the northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip, and in Gaza City; damage was reported, no injuries.Local…
A study conducted by the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) revealed that 52% of the children in Gaza suffer from anaemia, and severe deficiency in phosphor, calcium and zinc, while…
Several Islamist activists in Yemen launched a campaign to collect donations in order to prepare a Yemeni Flotilla that would sail to Gaza to deliver humanitarian supplies. Legislator, Mohammad al-Hazmi,…
Hamas political leader, Mahmoud Zahhar, stated that there are at least eight solidarity ships that would be heading to the Gaza Strip in the coming two months. Zahhar added that…
Palestinian sources reported on Monday evening that one resident was killed and another was wounded when the Israeli Air Force bombarded al-Shujaeyya neighborhood east of Gaza City.The attack was apparently…
A group of unknown gunmen attacked on Monday at dawn a summer camp that belongs to the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) in al-Zawayda area, north of Dir…
With the besieged population of the Gaza Strip facing severe electricity shortages, the one operational power station that was not bombed by Israeli forces last year shut down early Saturday…
The al-Qassam Brigade, the armed wing of Hamas, reported that one of its fighters was killed on Saturday morning during a mission in central Gaza.The Brigades did not elaborate on…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported Friday afternoon, that the bodies of two Palestinians were located under the rubble of a tunnel that was bombarded by the Israeli…
The Israeli Air Force carried out, on Friday at dawn, four air strikes targeting areas in the northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip; one resident was wounded. Local…
Engineer Canaan Obeid, deputy head of the Gaza Power Authority, stated that the only power plant in the Gaza Strip will stop functioning on Friday evening as it will run…
Hundreds of Gaza women held a rally on Monday evening at the Fishermen Port in Gaza City and lit candles in a display of solidarity with the Lebanese Aid Ship,…
The U.S. State Department warned its citizens against going to the Gaza Strip, and against what it called “infiltrating” into Gaza by participating in solidarity ships or by any other…
Despite Israel’s Thursday decision to “ease restrictions on Gaza”, the Israeli Authorities closed all trade crossings leading to the coastal region. The closure, unless extended, will last until Sunday. Fattouh…
The Israeli Ministerial Cabinet decided on Thursday morning to ease some of the restrictions it enforces on the entry of goods and supplies into the besieged coastal region. The cabinet…
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that the Israeli soldier who shot and killed a 64-year-old Palestinian woman and her daughter, 35, during Israel’s offensive against the Gaza Strip, 18 months ago,…
Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, spokesperson for the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, said Wednesday that the statements of Azzam al-Ahmad, a member of the Central Committee of the Fatah…
Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyya, stated that Israel’s decision to investigate its own attack against the Freedom Flotilla in international waters is an attempt to deceive the world, adding that the…
Hundreds of Palestinians marched in the Gaza Strip to protest the “buffer zone” Israel is creating in the northern, and eastern side of the Gaza Strip.The march, called for by…
The EU desires the Gaza blockade lifted, international participants in any inquiry. Israel wants future ships stopped before they leave port.The EU has expressed to Israel its desire to see…
Hisham Yousef, assistant Arab League Secretary-General, left the Gaza Strip through the Rafah terminal later on Thursday at night after conducting a short visit to observe the preparations for the…
While the people of Gaza continue to demand that Israel lift its 3-year long siege and allow building materials, electric appliances, medical equipment and car parts into Gaza, the Israeli…
A special committee in Israel will be holding a meeting on Wednesday to make a decision on expelling nine Palestinian detainees from the West Bank. The violation is considered an…
On Tuesday, in the first incident of its kind, the Israeli Authorities deported a Sudanese citizen who had been working in Israel without a visa to the Gaza Strip. The…
Palestinian medical sources reported, Monday at dawn, that four fighters were killed by Israeli fire near the Gaza coast.The attack was carried out approximately at 4:30am, at dawn, as the…
A delegation of Arab Parliamentarians visited the Gaza Strip on Sunday in a step that was described as a move to challenge the Israeli siege on the coastal region, and…
The Israeli army published a Youtube video on Saturday that includes a radio conversation Israel says it happened between the Marmara passengers and the Israeli navy prior to the attack…
Palestinian medical sources reported Friday that an infant died at a hospital in Gaza after Israel refused to allow his family to transfer him to an Israeli hospital to receive…
Egyptian Legislator, Dr. Hazim Farouq, stated Friday that an Egyptian humanitarian convoy will be heading to the Gaza Strip this coming Monday carrying construction materials. Dr. Farouq, who was among…
The Hamas movement invited Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, of the rival Fateh party, to visit the Gaza Strip as the first step to break the Israeli siege, and end internal…
The Israeli government sent a Gaza Strip resident back to the coastal region while his Turkish wife was deported back to Istanbul. The resident and his wife were among the…
The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG) reported that it has enough donations to prepare the first three solidarity ships of ‘Freedom Flotilla 2,’ a second humanitarian…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that Israel will not end its blockade of the Gaza Strip.He said that the his government’s stance has not changes, and that the…
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem) is demanding that Israel conduct an “immediate, independent and effective” investigation into the Israeli raid that killed 19…
19 activists were killed in the attack and dozens were wounded, Israeli news agencies reported.Among the wounded was Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement,…
In what activists are calling a ‘massacre on the high seas,’ Israeli commandos assaulted a ship sailing with the humanitarian Freedom Flotilla bound for Gaza. The Israeli commandos roped from…
Hamas announced that it is holding Israel responsible for its deadly commando raid on the Freedom Flotilla, which resulted in the death of at least 16 activists. Hamas called the…
Reactions in the Middle East and around the world to Israel’s violent raid on the humanitarian Freedom Flotilla.Secretary of the Arab League, Amro Mousa: Israel feels it is above the…
The Israeli Navy has scrambled all communications with the Freedom Flotilla, a convoy carrying hundreds of peace activists and tons of humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip.Al-Jazeera reporter said that…
The al-Jazeera journalist travelling aboard the Freedom Flotilla reported that an Israeli patrol boat approached his ship and demanded to see its captain. Human rights activists aboard the Flotilla say…
The Israeli army and navy, under direct supervision and orders from the Israeli government, prepared a plan dubbed “Operation Sky Wind” to attack the Freedom Flotilla” heading to Gaza and…
The Israeli Air Force carried out on Saturday at dawn five airstrikes targeting Rafah and Gaza City leading to excessive damage. Local sources reported that the Israeli air force fired…
Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, stated Friday afternoon that the solidarity ships, filled with medical and humanitarian supplies, and heading to Gaza, is a “violent propaganda against Israel”, and vowed…
The Palestine Eagles Brigades reported Friday that its fighters exchanged fire with Israeli infantry troops in Sheikh Hammouda area, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza…
Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, stated that solidarity ships heading to Gaza, all acts of solidarity with the Palestinians people and…
Palestinian medical sources reported on Thursday at night that six residents were wounded after the Israeli army bombarded Al Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza city. Local sources said that Israeli…
The Borders and Crossings Authority in the Gaza Strip reported Thursday that fifteen European parliamentarians entered the coastal region via the Rafah terminal, in the southern part of the Gaza…
The Israeli government’s political cabinet decided to instruct the army and the navy not to allow the Freedom Flotilla from reaching the Gaza coast under no circumstances, and said that…
The largest aid convoy to date is currently en route to Gaza to break the Israeli siege. The convoy includes nine ships, ten thousand tons of aid and eight hundred…
Three Palestinian farmers were injured Wednesday afternoon by gunfire from Israeli soldier near the Israeli border in northern Gaza. Witnesses said that the famers were harvesting crops near the town…
The dissolved Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip stated that the municipal elections slated to take place in the West Bank July are illegitimate. The Gazan government says that there…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported Wednesday morning that at least Gaza sixteen residents, mostly women and children, were wounded in a series of Israeli airstrikes over northern…
The Turkish government officially demanded that Israel not intercept or obstruct the Freedom Flotilla, a convoy of ships attempting to bring humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip. Turkey is requesting…
(Hearklin, Crete, Tuesday, May 25, 2010) As Israel continues to insist it will stop the seven-ship international Freedom Flotilla, two more ships departed from Greece to Gaza today.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE…
Israeli tanks stationed at the Israeli-Gazan border bombarded homes and farms in the northern Gazan town of Beit Lahyia Tuesday. Tank shells damaged homes, some impacting near farmers who were…
The Greek-Swedish solidarity ship, carrying humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip, sailed earlier on Tuesday morning after several hours delay due to technical difficulties, while the rest of the ships…
Palestinian fighters detonated an explosive device near an Israeli military vehicle, Tuesday morning, near the Erez terminal in northern Gaza. The Jihad Jibril Brigade, the armed wing of the Popular…
Hamas spokesman Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri stated that he is sure the Freedom Flotilla, a convoy of ships carrying humanitarian support and international and Arab activists to the Gaza Strip,…
The Hamas run Interior Ministry of Gaza announced, on Monday, that police arrested an Egyptian intelligence officer inside the Gaza Strip on Sunday.Fathi Hammad, of the Interior Minister in Gaza,…
Residents of the Gaza Strip and several humanitarian institutions are preparing to receive the “The Freedom Flotilla,” the largest convoy of solidarity ships yet, expected to arrive by Friday. Israel…
The United Nations reported Sunday that the Israeli siege on Gaza and the aftermath of its December 2008 war are still hindering the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and that…
Palestinian medical sources reported Sunday, that Israeli soldiers shot and wounded a Palestinian youth north of Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.Eyewitnesses reported that soldiers opened…
Palestinian sources reported, Friday, that two fighters were shot and killed during clashes with Israel soldiers east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli…
Today I woke up with this Tweet in my mail box: Iyad Sami Zindah, 5 yr old, died today of cancer after Israeli occupation forces prevented him from leaving #Gaza…
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli Air Force carried out several airstrikes on Thursday night, after midnight, targeting a number of areas in the Gaza Strip. No injuries were reported.…
Israeli sources reported that two Israeli boats will be sailing Saturday from northern Israel in order to counter the Freedom Flotilla bringing 600 peace activists and humanitarian aid to the…
Despite Israeli guarantees to the International Community, the Israeli Authorities are still obstructing the entry of medicine and medical equipment to the besieged Gaza Strip. The last time medicine was…
The Security Forces of the dissolved government of Hamas in the Gaza Strip arrested, on Wednesday, Dr. Osama al-Farra, member of the Revolutionary Council on Fateh movement, headed by Palestinian…
Israeli security sources reported, Wednesday, that a homemade shell was fired from the Gaza Strip and landed in an open area in the Western Negev.The shell caused no damage or…
A Palestinian boy was injured on Tuesday night after a bomb left by the Israeli military exploded near him in Khan Younis City, southern Gaza Strip. Hassan Abu Farahana, 16,…
Israeli tanks and bulldozers invaded farm lands, Wednesday morning, that belong to farmers from Beit Lahiya town in the northern part of the Gaza strip.While bulldozers uprooted trees and destroyed…
Later this month, ships from all over the world will converge in the Mediterranean and set sail for the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. This international coalition is called the…
A group of Palestinian fighters clashed on Tuesday with an invading Israeli force in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Salah Al Deen Brigades said in a press statement…
Several senior Israeli military leaders and leaders of the military police held a meeting recently to prepare scenarios for a possible reoccupation of the Gaza Strip and appointing a “military…
Palestinian sources reported that Israeli soldiers carried out, on Tuesday at dawn, a limited invasion into al-Saifa area, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and clashes with resistance…
The Hamas run security forces in the Gaza Strip and its Ministry of Interior executed three prisoners, on Tuesday at dawn, who were previously convicted of murder and sentenced to…
The head of the European Division at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Noar Gilon, stated Monday, that Israel will prevent solidarity ships, planned to reach the Gaza Strip this month, from…
Israeli soldiers shot and killed on Saturday a 75-year oldو and wounded another Palestinian in a separate incident near the border with Gaza.Israeli Radio reported that the body of the…
The Israeli army reported that soldiers observed at a Palestinian approaching the fence near the Karni Crossing, east of the Gaza Strip, and shot him dead, the Israeli Radio reported.The…
Human Rights Watch revealed that Israeli army intentionally and unlawfully destroyed Palestinian property, falsifying claims that Palestinians used them for military purposes, during the January 2009 Israeli war on the…
The Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip, headed by the Hamas movement, has decided to establish a new temporary refugee camp at the Erez Terminal, between the Gaza Strip and…
One Palestinian was killed and four other members of his family were wounded on Thursday at dawn, when a power generator exploded in their house in Rafah city, southern Gaza…
Around 105 Palestinian patients and stranded families and students managed to return to the Gaza Strip on Thursday, via the Rafah terminal. The Rafah terminal at the borders with Egypt,…
An Egyptian Navy boat hit a Palestinian fishing boat near the southern shoreline of the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, killing Mohamed Al Bardaweel, 44 years old, witnesses reported.The Hamas-run government accused…
The Egyptian Navy confiscated fishing equipment owned by Palestinian fishermen after claiming that they crossed into Egyptian territorial waters. The fishermen said that they were violently attacked by the Egyptian…
Independent Palestinian Legislator, head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege, Jamal El Khodary, stated that the biggest convoy of solidarity ships aimed at breaking the Israeli siege on Gaza…
A number of Israeli tanks and bulldozers invaded farm lands close to the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah boarders with Israel. As bulldozers destroyed crops and bulldozed farm lands…
Israeli troops inured two Palestinian men while they were protesting at the Erez crossing on Tuesday. Ahmad Abu Salaf and Mahmoud Sha’baan were deported to the Gaza Strip last month…
Israeli tanks shelled on Tuesday residential areas near Gaza City and farm lands close to the borders with Israel. Witnesses told local media that tanks shells caused damage in property…
The family of detainee Ahmad Asfour voiced an appeal to human rights and legal groups to intervene and save the life of their son who was seriously wounded during the…
Two Palestinian teenagers were arrested ion Monday after they entered the Egypt via a tunnel at the borders with the Gaza Strip. Rami Abu8 Mustafa, 17, and Mahmoud Al Alawi,…
In honor of the international workers’ day celebration, workers in the Gaza Strip held a rally of over 2,000 people at the Erez crossing with Israel, and 300 people at…
The Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (PHRF) reported Friday that since the beginning of this year, 52 Palestinian residents were killed in border tunnels after the Egyptian Authorities gassed the tunnels…
Israeli soldiers opened fire at a nonviolent protested organized near Rafah city, southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday injuring one Palestinian man. The protesters gathered near the Israeli borders with Rafah…
Israeli tanks and bulldozers invaded on Thursday border areas near Al Buraj refugee camp in central Gaza Strip. Local sources said that the bulldozers uprooted trees and destroyed crops owned…
Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, media spokesperson of the Hamas movement, held the Egyptian Authorities responsible for the death of four Palestinians who died in a tunnel after Egypt’s Border Police…