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Fahmi Al Za’areer, spokesperson of Fateh movement, accused Hamas movement of causing the death of Bassam Al Anani, 40, one of Fateh members, who was arrested by Hamas forces in…
The Israeli army killed early on Thursday morning a Palestinian resident in the southern Gaza Strip, the first Palestinian causality since Israel and Palestinian resistance factions agreed to ceasefire three…
Every Monday for over a year, dozens of women gather at the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza City to protest their inability to…
The Palestinian Ministry of Heath in Gaza reported on Wednesday that the number of the killed civilians in the last 12 months reached 203. The heath ministry warned that hundreds…
Palestinian Prime Minister of the care taker government Dr. Salam Fayyad denied a Monday report by Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, in which the paper claimed that he is planning to launch…
Palestinian sources reported on Tuesday morning that two civilians were killed and two others were wounded in an unknown explosion in southern Gaza Strip. Dr. Mawiya Hassanen, of the Palestinian…
Israeli sources reported on Monday midday that a Palestinian home made shell struck an open area near the Karen A border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel causing no…
The Hamas movement, which controls Gaza, warned Israel on Monday from attacking the Gaza strip. The statement was in response to Israeli media reports that Israel will resume its attacks…
Hamas party representatives from Gaza and abroad will head for Cairo tomorrow for talks over the reopening of Rafah crossing terminal , Alhayat Arabic London-based newspaper quoted Hamas’s deputy-political bureau…
The Israeli army opened heavy fire early on Sunday morning towards Palestinian farmers in areas, adjacent to the border electronic barbed wire fence with Israel in northern Gaza Strip. The…
Mahmud Al Zahar, a prominent Hamas leader in Gaza, stated Saturday that the Palestinian internal dialogue is back to ground zero. He added that that there are no new developments…
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, stated that it suspended its indirect talks with Israel on the release of the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, who was captured by Palestinian fighters two…
Israeli sources reported on Thursday that one Palestinian homemade shell was fired from the Gaza Strip at a Kibbutz in the Sha’r Ha-Negev Regional Council; no injuries were reported. So…
The Hamas-dominated government in Gaza blamed Israel yesterday for the outbreak of violence at the Rafah crossing terminal in southern Gaza on Wednesday midday. In a statement, faxed to press,…
The Egyptian authorities closed on Wednesday afternoon the Rafah crossing terminal after hundreds of Palestinians, mainly patients and stranded, flooded into the Egyptian side of terminal, as their entry has…
Israel announced on Wednesday that it will open the border crossings used to supply Gaza with goods and fuel according to orders by the Israeli defense minister Ehod Barak. Barak…
‘We gather here as Russian wives who are married to Gazan husbands, to preserve our culture, language and some of our lifestyle, particularly under these bad conditions in Gaza,’ said…
Spokesman of the popular committee against the Israeli blockade, Rami Abdo, announced on Wedensday that patient number 200 died after having been unable to go for treatment outside of Gaza…
A Palestinian woman was shot and injured by Israeli army fire near the Sufa crossing in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning. Medical sources reported that…
Palestinian sources reported on Monday that the Rafah terminal between the Gaza Strip and Egypt will open for three days starting on Tuesday. The sources added that the first two…
Palestinian journalist Mohammad Omer, from Rafah, was harassed by Israeli border Authorities on his way back from a speaking tour in Europe. Upon arrival to Jordan, he was informed by…
Sources at the United Nations stated on Friday that after one week of truce in Gaza eight violations were reported, seven of these violations were carried by the Israeli army…
As Israel continues to close the borders leading in or out of Gaza a Palestinian resistance group has fired several Qassam home made shells at the Israeli town of Sderot…
Dawoud Shihab, a leader in the Islamic Jihad movement in Gaza, told media on Thursday that Israel did not open the borders last week.The official said Israel did not close…
Medical sources in Gaza City reported that a Palestinian man died on Thursday because he was prevented by the Israeli army to leave the Gaza Strip to get medical care.…
The Quartet Committee for Middle East Peace, made up of United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia, yesterday called on Israel and Palestinians to show restraint and help last…
Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, decided last night to seal off all of Gaza's crossings, after they have been partially reopened over the weekend, in response to yesterday's homemade shells…
The Israeli army shot and wounded on Wednesday morning a Palestinian elderly man in southern Gaza Strip, less than 24 hours after homemade shells hit the nearby Israeli town of…
The Islamic resistance group Hamas emphasized that the assassination of the two Palestinians that took place today, June 24, in Nablus is yet one more crime the Israeli occupation commited…
Palestinian medical sources reported that an elderly Palestinian man was shot and seriously wounded by Israeli military gunfire on Monday evening as he was working on his land near the…
The Islamic Resistance Movement, (Hamas) published Monday evening a letter from the captured Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip Gilad Shalit to his parents.The letter, which was claimed to be…
The Hamas movement warned that if Israel implements the Israeli high court decision of not opening the border crossing with Gaza until the abducted Israeli soldier in the Strip is…
The Hamas-run interior ministry in Gaza ordered a deployment of of security and police forces near Gaza-Israeli border crossings on Sunday. In a statement, delivered to the press by the…
Israel will begin Sunday allowing increased shipments of goods and commodities into the Gaza Strip, Israeli radio reported. According to the radio, shipments will increase by 30 percent and that…
On 11 June, eight-year-old Hadeel Al-Sumairi was killed when her home in southeastern Gaza was shelled by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). Less than a week earlier, eight-year-old Aya Hamdan al-Najjar…
Palestinian officials stated on Thursday that Israel allowed limited amount of fuel, excluding car-gas, to enter Gaza, through Al shajaeyeh border crossing also known as "Nahal owzze" on Wednesday after…
Amidst great uncertainty the Egyptian negotiated ceasefire went into effect this morning between Hamas and Israel. Under the truce Hamas has agreed to halt the Qassam shell attacks against…
The Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas Movement, issued a press statement on Thursday announcing the group is committed to the truce between Hamas and Israel. The…
The Israeli army conducted several air attacks targeting different areas in the Gaza Strip on Thursday at dawn, one killed and two injured local sources reported. Witnesses said that a…
Benita Ferrero -Waldner, European Commissioner for External Relations and Neighborhood Policy, issued a statement on Wednesday welcoming the announcement of a truce between Israel and the Hamas movement. In her…
Marzouq Mo’amar’s smile has returned to his face after he had almost lost hope because of thyroid cancer that had spread to his neck. Just a few weeks ago Palestinian…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that six Palestinians were killed by Israeli shells in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The statement came after one resident died of…
Hamas's spokesman in Gaza, Fawzi Barhoum, said that his ruling party will abide by the ceasefire declaration, Cairo announced on Tuesday. Barhoum was responding to Tuesday's Egyptian declaration of a…
An official from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party told the Palestinian News Network, PNN, that a delegation from Fatah has arrived in the Gaza strip on Tuesday. The official…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that one fighter of the Islamic Jihad was killed on Monday evening after the Israeli army fired a missile at an area…
Scores of Palestinian journalists working for deferent media outlets protest on Monday midday in Gaza city. The march was organized to demand that the Israeli army releases the out comes…
Unknown gunmen attacked women beauty shop located in Rafah city in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Monday morning. Local sources said that masked gumen planted a home…
Tuesday morning at 9:00am, 220 Palestinian children gathered at al-Sherouq and al-Amal children’s club in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis refugee camp. Dressed in colorful clothes accompanied by cheerful smiles, the…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, 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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
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…
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…
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 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…
‘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…
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…
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, 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…
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. ‘…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…