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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…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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’…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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’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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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 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…
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, 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…
Four Palestinian residents were reportedly wounded on Thursday afternoon after two Israeli air strikes hit a civilian car in northern Gaza Strip. Medical sources said that four Palestinian residents were…
The Israeli tanks and troops left the Abasan town, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Thursday at dawn leaving behind two killed Palestinians,…
Palestinian medical sources reported that one fighter was killed on Wednesday and five residents were wounded in an Israeli air strike that targeted an area east of Khan Younis, in…
Five Palestinians have been reportedly wounded on Wednesday morning after the Israeli army shelled a house to the east of Khan Younis city in southern Gaza Strip. Medics confirmed that…
Palestinian medical at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City reported that one resident died of wounds sustained on Tuesday at dawn when the Israeli army shelled Sheikh Zayid city, in…
The de-facto Hamas government in Gaza described yesterday the latest Palestinian-Israeli peace talks as ‘ aimless and useless’. Taher aL-Nuno, spokesman of the government, said in a statement, faxed to…
‘Closed because of the siege,’ a sign reads on the front door of the Al-Yazji factory on the main Salah al-Din road in Gaza City. Al-Yazji, the largest producer of…
An Israeli air strike killed early on Tuesday a Qassam fighter and wounded another, when the car they were driving was hit with a missile. Medical sources in northern Gaza…
Palestinian medical sources reported that on Monday after midnight, two residents were wounded when the Israeli army fired at least one missile at a group of residents who gathered near…
Three Palestinian women, including a 13-year old girl, died in the Gaza strip on Monday after being prevented by the Israeli authorities from leaving Gaza to for medical treatment abroad.Asmahan…
One Palestinian was reportedly killed an five others were wounded when a tunnel on Gaza-Egypt border lines was collapsed Monday. Medical sources confirmed that Rami Alsha’er, was killed and five…
On Monday morning, several Palestinian armed resistance groups from Gaza continued firing home-made Qassam shells at nearby Israeli targets. The Popular resistance committees and the Al Aqsa Brigades of Fatah…
The Popular Committee Against the Siege reported that initial reports revealed that the daily losses of the fishing industry in the Gaza Strip is estimated by $70000 and that additional…
The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights issued a report on Sunday revealing that Israeli soldiers killed 69 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in April. The Center added that among…
An Israeli army tank shelled on Sunday morning a Palestinian-owned house in the southern Gaza Strip town of Kheza’a, killing a civilian man and wounding two other inhabitants. Palestinian medical…
Fawzi Barhum, Hamas spokesperson said in a press statement issued on Saturday that ‘the call of the Middle East peace Quartet for the Israeli government to freeze settlement activity and…
Palestinian medical sources in Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern part of the Gaza Strip reported that a Palestinian man sustained moderate wounds when a bomb planted at his door…
Local sources reported that under-cover units of the Israeli army infiltrated into Sheikh Radwan area in Gaza City on Friday evening and attempted to assassinate one of the leaders of…
The Palestinian death toll out of Israeli army attacks on Gaza today has risen to three including a civilian man, as a small-scale incursion is taking place in southern Gaza.…
Palestinian sources reported that one Palestinian fighter was killed and two children were injured by Israeli army fire in separate attacks targeting the southern part of the Gaza Strip on…
The ongoing Israeli siege over the Gaza Strip led to the death of a sick four-month old Palestinian infant after the Israeli authorities barred his transfer to a specialized hospital…
The Hamas-dominated government in Gaza hailed on Wednesday the Palestinian factions’ agreement to the ceasefire proposal, Hamas had submitted to Egyptian mediators last week. In a statement, faxed to press,…
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshot of Fatah party in Gaza survived on Wednesday an Israeli missile attack in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanoun. In a statement,…
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, stressed on Tuesday that his government will soon take some necessary actions to handle the situation in the Gaza Strip, while his intelligence service chief,…
Israel decided on Wedensday to allow shipments of international food aid into the besieged Gaza Strip through an alternative crossing, as the Israeli closure of the coastal territory remains in…
Israeli security sources reported on Tuesday that the Israeli army intends to lower the scale of military operations targeting the Gaza Strip in coming days in order to avoid any…
Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian patient from Beit Hanoun, located in the northern Gaza Strip, died on Tuesday because she was prevented by the Israeli army from leaving…
An Israeli air strike wounded on Monday four Palestinian resistance fighters of the Popular Resistance Committees, while driving along the Salah Eldin main road in northern Gaza Strip. Dr. Mo’awiya…
Both Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas-linked Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya in Gaza, condemned on Monday the latest Israeli military escalation in northern Gaza, in which a mother…
An Israeli shell tore through a Palestinian home in the northern Gaza Strip village of Izbit Abed-Rabo, near Beit Hanoun, early Monday morning, killing four siblings under the age of…
A number of Israeli tanks rolled on Sunday morning few hundred meters into the eastern parts of central Gaza Strip city of Deir Elbalah, Palestinian security sources reported. The sources…
Israeli media sources reported Sunday that the Israeli government has conditioned halt of homemade shells as well as weapons smuggling through the Egypt-Gaza border lines as a precondition for a…
The Arab states league expressed Saturday concern over the increasingly deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip amidst the Israeli closure and lack of essential living items including food and…
Representatives of a umber of Palestinian factions in Gaza will head to Cairo tomorrow for talks over national consensus on a ceasefire initiative, the ruling Hamas party had presented last…
In a statement that was issued on Friday, the United Nations called for both Israel and the Hamas movement to reach a settlement to the fuel crisis that has been…
Luis Michel, the European Union Commissioner urged Israel on Thursday to ensure that entry of fuels into the Gaza Strip. The statement came after the United Nations Office for the…
Hamas political leader, Mahmoud Zahhar, stated on Thursday that the movement accepts a truce in Gaza under a national agreement, and added that this truce should be extended later on…
The Islamic Jihad group in Gaza said today that Abbas-Olmert meetings are ‘complete loss’, because they are held at the end of U.S’s President Gorge W. Bush term in office.…
Palestinians sources reported that the Israeli army has kidnapped so far 20 Palestinians civilians during the ongoing military operation targeting the town of Beit Hannon in the northern part of…
The ruling Hamas party in Gaza will give on Thursday its response to an Egyptian-mediated truce with Israel, the London-based aL-Hayat Arabic newspaper reported. Sources at Hamas’s leadership in Gaza…
A Palestinian old man from northern Gaza Strip was reportedly killed on Thursday after the Israeli army tanks rolled into the area and began shooting heavily. Palestinian medical sources said…
The head of the United Nations Refugee Works Agency commented on Wednesday that the Agency's food distribution program in the Gaza Strip will have to be halted unless Israel supplies…
In his first public appearance in several weeks, Palestinian prime minister of the ruling Hamas party in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, reiterated his party’s acceptance of a ‘ comprehensive and mutual’…
The Gaza-based Al-Mizan center for Human Rights issued its monthly report on Wednesday.According to the report, the Israeli army has killed 59 Palestinians including 15 children in addition to injuring…
The Israeli authorities began this morning shipping large quantities of industrial gasoline to the Gaza Strip’s power plant, after reports said the plant would be shut down by Wednesday due…
The sole power plant in Gaza declared on Tuesday it will stop generating electricity for Gaza’s 1.5 million residents by tomorrow evening, due to sharp shortage of gasoline, needed to…
The Al-Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad and the Shuhada Al-Aqsa brigades, the armed wing of Fatah party of President Mahmoud Abbas, rejected Tuesday ceasfire with Israel,…
Hamas’s spokesperson in Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri stated on Tuesday that the remarks made today by the Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, signaled ‘failure of the Israeli army actions on…