Category: Gaza Strip

Abu Obaida, spokesperson of the Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, stated on Friday that two engineers, members of the “manufacturing division” of the brigades were killed while…

The Israeli government has approved the construction of a new Israeli settlement on Palestinian land in the West Bank to house Israeli settlers who moved out of settlements in the…

A Palestinian farmer was shot and injured by the Israeli army in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya on Tuesday morning. Palestinian medical sources in the town reported…

Palestinian sources reported on Monday that the Israeli Prison authorities deported a Palestinian detainee from Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, to the Gaza Strip. The detainee,…

During a session for Israel’s “security Cabinet” on Sunday, several Israeli ministers warned that Israeli would carry a large military offensive in the Gaza Strip if Palestinian fighters continue to…

Hundreds of Palestinians gathered outside the Parliament Building in Gaza to protest the ongoing violence and infighting which was initiated after President Abbas called for new Presidential and Parliamentary elections. …

A Palestinian home made shell landed on Thursday morning on a Palestinian house wounding three Palestinians including a pregnant woman in the northern Gaza strip. The shell landed on a…

  A fisherman died on Thursday morning due to wounds he sustained earlier this month when Israeli navel gun boats opened fire at a group of fishermen near the Rafah…

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported Wednesday that an Israeli war-jet fired a missile at a group of fighters in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, no injuries…

Organization of the Islamic Conference General Secretary Ekmel Eddin Ihsan Oglu suggested opening an investigation in the latest events of factional infighting in the Gaza Strip which claimed the lives…

Two Palestinian security officers were killed in the Gaza strip on Tuesday afternoon as a result of ongoing Fatah – Hamas clashes.   Medical sources reported that the bodies of…

At least one person was killed and seven others were wounded on Tuesday morning in clashes between the Palestinian General intelligence service and the Executive forces in the Gaza Strip,…

One Palestinian teen was critically wounded in the neck after being hit by a live round in central Gaza city in the Gaza strip on Monday morning during a gunfight…

One Palestinian presidential guard was killed early Sunday morning after scores of masked militants attacked an outpost, west of Gaza City, belonging to the Palestinian President’s 17 force, as armed…

At least five Palestinian residents were wounded Saturday night during clashes between supporters of the two major Palestinian political parties, Fateh and Hamas, in the southern Gaza Strip city of…

An explosion rocked the center of Gaza city on Friday at dawn after bomb went off near a pharmacy. Eyewitnesses reported that a group of unknown gunmen placed the bomb…

Palestinian man was shot and killed on Wednesday night in Al Mintar area in the eastern part of Gaza city. No names have been issued but initial reports are talking…

A group of unknown gunmen opened fire and killed a Palestinian judge on Wednesday morning outside of a courthouse in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources reported.…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed one Palestinian near the Karni Crossing, east of Gaza. The resident is the first casualty in the Gaza Strip since the Palestinian factions declared cease…

Following Monday morning tragic shooting, where unknown gunmen shot at the car of Major Baha' Balousha, killing his three children on their way to school, instead of him, the mother…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, strongly denounced the Gaza attack carried by unknown gunmen who shot and killed four Palestinian children children in Gaza City after opening fire at a car…

Four Palestinian children have been killed and five others were injured when a group of unknown gunmen opened fire at a car in Al Rimal area, in Gaza city, on…

A Palestinian man was shot by Israeli forces east of Gaza City on Sunday, and was brought to the hospital with critical injuries, local sources reported. The man was shot…

Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert stated on Friday that he is willing to discuss the Italian proposal to send an international force to Gaza. Olmert said that he will discus…

Palestinian medical sources reported on Friday afternoon that Israeli soldiers shot and injured to residents in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Dr. Muawiya Hassanen, head of the Emergency…

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya arrived on Thursday noon in the Iranian capital, Tehran, and was received by the Iranian vice-president. On Friday Haniyya said that his government will not…

Sources at the United Nations in New York reported on Friday that the investigation committee appointed by the United Nations to investigate the Beit Hanoun Israeli attack on November 8,…

The Israeli army opened fire at Palestinian farmers in the northern part of the Gaza Strip injuring two. The attack is considered as a direct violation to the ceasefire, but…

An Egyptian security source reported on Thursday that Egyptian border guards uncovered a tunnel linking to Rafah city, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The tunnel allegedly was…

Ahmad Banat, 23, was shot and injured by Israeli army gunfire while working on his land in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza strip, on Thursday morning.…

Two Palestinian residents were shot and injured, on Wednesday, when Israeli army troops positioned in the northern Gaza borders opened fire and a group of residents. Palestinian medical sources reported…

Palestinian sources in Gaza reported that fighters of the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad survived an apparent assassination attack near the souther entrance of Beit…

Israeli opposition leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, slammed on Monday the ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians and said that Palestinian factions did not halt the firing of homemade shells, warning that…

The Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, announced Sunday that Israeli forces will resume their shelling of northern Gaza, and will continue the daily invasions and attacks of the West Bank. …

After months of public sector strikes due to nonpayment of salaries in light of the US-led blockade, now banks are striking. Following an Attack against the Arab Bank, it planed…

Ayman Abu Mahdi, 10, from Jabalia town, in the norther part of the Gaza strip died on Saturday morning of wounds sustained during Israeli army attacks last month. The child…

United Nations officials reported Wednesday that Nobel Laureate, Bishop Desmond Tutu, has been named to head a UN fact-finding mission to Beit Hanoun town, in the northern part of the…

Israeli army tanks stationed at the northern side of the Gaza Strip fired several shells hitting open areas in Beit Lahia town in northern Gaza strip, on Wednesday morning. No…

In his first trip outside of the Gaza Strip since he took office, Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, left Gaza through the Rafah Border Crossing in a tour that aims…

Scores of public sector employees in Gaza city took the streets on Tuesday morning in protesting of the delayed over due salaries. The protest took place near the headquarters of…

After three days of continuous military offensive in the norther part of the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops withdrew leaving scenes of destruction, twenty-three Palestinian dead and hundreds of injuries. The…

Palestinian medical sources in in the Gaza Strip reported that two Palestinians were killed, on Saturday at night and several others injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted a…

Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians and injured another two on Saturday at dawn, Palestinian medical sources reproted. Dr. Muawieh Hasaneen, head of the emergency and ambulances department at the Palestinian…

Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that the Israeli government's Disengagement Administration (Sela) has paid millions of shekels in compensation to dozens of settlers families who were evacuated from illegal settlement…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported on Thursday afternoon that fifteen residents were killed and forty-seven were injured  in the period between Wednesday until Friday afternoon, after Israeli decided to…

A total of six Palestinians were killed by Israeli military fire and shelling in several areas in the Gaza Strip on Thursday. One woman was also killed when she detonated…

Palestinian sources reported that two fighters of the Salah Ed Deen Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, were killed,and three residents were injured, on Thursday evening after the…

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday at night that one woman from Jabalia town carried a suicide bombing among Israeli troops operating in the town, the woman…

Palestinian medical sources on Gaza reported on Thursday afternoon that one resident was killed after Israeli plane fired one missile at a group of residents east of Jabalia town north…

Israeli helicopters fired their heavy machine guns towards residents' houses in Jabalyia town in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday at noon. Residents reported a lot of damage to their…

Palestinian medical sources reported on Wednesday evening that one child was shot and killed by Israeli military fire in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. One…

The Israeli security cabinet held a session on Wednesday morning and decided to continue the military offensive in the Gaza Strip without any changes to the current operations, but by…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip, reported that several residents were injured on Wednesday morning, among them school children. The Israeli army continued its invasion to the city that…

As the Israeli military continued its offensive in Beit Hanoun town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, Israeli military sources that one soldier was moderately hurt during exchanges…

At least one Palestinian man was killed as a result of the Israeli ongoing shelling at the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, Palestinian sources reproted.  The man was identified as…

Ten hours after they were abducted by an unknown group in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the two Italian citizens, working with the International Committee…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Tuesday night after midnight Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and fired rounds of live ammunition. Eyewitnesses reported that soldiers, backed by…

Palestinian sources reported that two Italian Red Cross workers were abducted by unknown gunmen in Dir Al Balah town, in the central Gaza strip on Tuesday afternoon. Iyad Nasser, a…

Palestinian sources reported that 15 residents were injured in the northern part of the Gaza Strip after the Israeli air force fired two missiles at residents in Jabal Al Kashef…

Israeli military helicopters opened fire on people and their homes in  the town of Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday at noon.  Residents reported that the helicopters…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health issued a report on Tuesday stating that the number of Gaza Strip residents killed by the Israeli army's continuous attacks since the beginning of November…

Israeli army tanks fired one tank shell at a group of residents in Tal Al Kashef area, east of Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning.…

Israeli army tanks and bulldozers invaded Al Zaytoun neighborhood south of Gaza City. Troops opened fire randomly at residents and killed two, including one 70 year old woman, on Tuesday…

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Monday at night that two fighters of the Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, were killed in an Israeli air…

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, started a five-day visit to the Palestinian territories and Israel, and visited Beit Hanoun town, in the northern part of the Gaza…

Palestinian sources reported on Monday that Israeli troops, supported by tanks and armored vehicles, invaded Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The invasion was carried out…

Israeli army tanks and bulldozers have started an invasion of the southern part of Beit Hanoun town north of the Gaza strip on Monday morning, after having partially retreated from…

Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported on Sunday evening that the resident who was injured on Sunday evening in an Israeli air-strike in Gaza City is a 75-year old man.…

Palestinian doctors in the Gaza Strip said that they have been dealing with a strange kind of weapon used against Palestinians. Doctor Abdulrahman Abu Safia of Al-Shifaa hospital in Gaza…

A Palestinian family, supported by hundred of residents, of the Jabalia refugee camp managed to stop an Israeli air strike to their house after refusing the leave the house and…

The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Friday night condemning the Israeli air strike against the civilian population of Beit Hanoun which killed 20 Palestinians and wounded dozens…

Palestinian security sources reported on Friday at night that the Israeli air force carried two separate attacks that targeted on house and a charitable society in Gaza City. Eyewitnesses reported…

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Friday at night that the Israeli air force shelled a headquarters of the Palestinian Executive Force in Al Shaty' refugee camp, near…

A clear and warm November evening; sun sets in a violence of color to the west over the sea and a full luminescent moon on the rise over Beit Hanoun…

Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that three Palestinian families who lost nineteen relatives in an Israeli military shelling to their houses last week are planning to sue Israel for its…

Palestinian medical and security sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday night after midnight that the Israeli air force shelled several houses, and a workshop, in the Gaza Strip;…

As thousands of residents of the Israeli Negev town of Sderot rushed to fill 17 buses that came to evacuate them from the town, Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, demanded…

Israeli Air Force carried several air strikes late Wednesday night until Thursday morning, targeting a number of houses that belong to families of resistance fighters; five civilians were injured; some…

Ahmad Al Afeefy, head of the Palestinian Football Association said on Wednesday that the team was unable to participate in the Asian World Cup due to the Israeli closure of…

Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that the Shin Bet security service chief, Yuval Diskin, stated on Tuesday that the government must prepare for a "military option" in Gaza, and claimed…

The European Union has agreed to extend its mission on the Gaza-Egypt border crossing for additional six months, EU officials stated on Tuesday.   The decision came after EU Foreign…

Sources from the Palestinian preventative security forces working in Gaza Strip announced on Tuesday that the forces managed to arrest two Gaza residents working as agents for the Israeli secret…

Palestinian medical sources reported that Mohamed Mekhiz, 21, died on Tuesday morning of wounds he sustained during the Israeli army attack on Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza strip last…

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported, on Monday at night, that soldiers shelled several homes in Al Mawassi area, and Al Qarara town, near Khan Younis, in the southern…

    Dar Al Salam hospital (the House of Peace Hospital), along with the science and technology university departments in the city of Khan Younis, in the southern part of…

Thousands of Arab residents of Israel held on Friday in a regional protest against the Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip and the recent killing of twenty-one civilians, including several…

In response to the Israeli military assault on the town of Beit Hanoun that left over 75 Palestinians dead in one week, including 18 civilians killed in an artillery strike…

Several Arab countries condemned the Beit Hanoun Israeli military attack that against civilian houses that left twenty residents killed, including eight children. The Palestinians demanded sanctions against Israel while Washington…

Palestinian medical sources in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that one resident died of wounds sustained in the town last Wednesday after the Israeli…

Palestinian lawmaker, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, called on Thursday on the International Community to send an impartial international probe committee to investigate the Israeli attacks and “crimes” carried by the army…

Renewed violence in Gaza is again raising serious concerns about the welfare of civilians, including children. Over the past week, the armed conflict has claimed the lives of an estimated…

The Israeli army opened fire at the residents' houses in the village of Al Faraheem near Khan Younis city south of the Gaza strip on Thursday morning. Local sources reported…

Seven days later and over 80 Palestinians dead, Palestinians living inside Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip participate in the first of a three-day mourning period to remember those…

The Israeli military has launched an investigation of itself for its “accidental” slaughter of 20 Palestinian civilians in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday and suggested the…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday at night that two Palestinians, members of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas movement, were killed in…

Hamas political bureau cheif, Khaled Mashal, called on the Palestinian resistance factions to retaliate to the Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people “and the massacres conducted against them”. “Resistance is…

Palestinian government spokesperson, Ghazi Hamad, said Wednesday that Israel is not a state, but rather a gang of criminals. The international community that Hamad says Israel disgraced in this morning's…

Twenty Palestinians were killed and at least forty were injured after the Israeli army shelled a civilian area in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Eight…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that three  Palestinians were killed on Tuesday evening, and one on resident died of earlier wounds. Earlier on Wednesday six Palestinians were…

Israeli armed forces retreated from Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip late Monday night, after a six day military operation aimed at Palestinian rocket launchers that has killed 53…