Category: Gaza Strip

The U.S. state department has cancelled the visas of the 3 remaining Palestinian scholars set to study in the States citing unspecified security concerns. The New York Times reported yesterday…

On August 5th, activists will be taking to the high seas in an effort to get much needed medical supplies to the ailing residents of the besieged Gaza strip.  …

The Maan News Agency reported on Monday that 87 members of Hallas family, supporters of Fateh movement, who fled out of the Gaza Strip after clashing with Hamas’ security forces…

Medical sources reported on Monday midday that the number of patients who have died in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli siege has reached 227 as one more patient…

Local sources reported that the Israeli army invaded the city of Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza strip on Monday midday. A group of Israeli military vehicles accompanied…

Israeli gunboats opened fire early on Monday morning on Palestinian fishermen on both northern and southern Gaza shores. Palestinian security sources told media outlets that the Israeli gunboats fired at…

The Hamas-led police forces arrested on Sunday morning 34 Fatah loyalists, who had fled to nearby Israeli areas along with scores of others during clashes in eastern Gaza City on…

Representatives of various Palestinian factions in Gaza, excluding the ruling Hamas party, staged a protest on Sunday in Gaza city, against what they are calling 'a media blackout', the Hamas…

Israeli security sources reported on Saturday that at least 150 Palestinians, members and supporters of Fateh movement, fled the Gaza Strip into Israel after clashing with Palestinian security forces run…

Palestinian security forces, loyal to Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, attacked several places said to be hideouts in Gaza for residents involved in last week’s blasts in Gaza in…

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) slammed Hamas and Fateh for their ongoing arrests campaigns against each other in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. On…

Ramo Abdo, media spokesperson of the Popular Committee Against the Siege, reported on Friday that five patients died in the Gaza Strip in 24 hours, one of the patients is…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported on Thursday that a 3-month old infant from Deir Al Balah town, in the central Gaza Strip, died of a heart disease as the…

The Acting President of the Legislative Council Dr. Ahmad Bahar called for international societies to support Palestinians and lift the ongoing two-year siege on the Gaza Strip. Bahar at his…

These days Rami Abdo’s duties include gardening, teaching and caring for his 10-year-old nephew. Abdo, a 30-year-old student from Gaza City, is still waiting along with hundreds of others to…

Senior Hamas leader, Mahmoud Al-Zahar, stated on Tuesday that the latest Hamas governments actions across the Gaza Strip have been a response to a national and civil necessity. "Hamas should…

Mahmoud Al Zahar, a leader in the Hamas movement, stated on Tuesday that a Hamas delegation will head to the Egyptian capital Cairo today for talks with Egyptian officials. In…

Two more patients died this morning bringing the number of deaths in the Gaza strip due to the year long Israeli siege to 221, medical sources reported. Nabeel Buheri, an…

The ruling Hamas party in Gaza will dispatch a delegation to Cairo on Tuesday in pursuit of the Egyptian-mediated ceasefire deal with Israel, which took effect on June19, 2008, Hamas…

The Hamas-dominated government in Gaza denounce on Monday the arrest campaigns, being launched by the Abbas-led Palestinian Authority in the West Bank against Hamas supporters over there. Taher Alnouno, spokesman…

One more patient died this morning bringing the number of deaths in the Gaza strip due to the year long Israeli siege to 219, medical sources reported. Maher Al Mabhuh,…

Rami Abdo, spokesperson of the Popular Committee Against the Siege reported on Sunday that three more Palestinian patients in the Gaza Strip died on Sunday due to the ongoing Israeli…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Sunday that the Prime Minister of the dissolved government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyya, underwent a successful medical procedure at a local…

Jamal Alkhudari, chairman of the local popular committee to break the Gaza siege, confirmed on Sunday that two international boats, loaded with internationals and assistance packages, will arrive in Gaza…

The Palestinian Center of Human Rights in Gaza (PCHR) issued a strong condemnation on Saturday to the Friday attacks that left six Palestinian killed in Gaza and also condiment the…

Palestinian sources reported on Saturday morning that the Hamas government in Gaza have arrested at least 40 Fatah members in several parts of the Gaza strip. The sources added that…

A car explosion in Gaza city killed three Hamas fighters and wounded 20 other people on Friday evening. Palestinian medical sources said that Ammar Mossabeh, Iyad Alhaiya and Nedal Almobayeid,…

In a nonviolent act, hundreds of Palestinian children gathered on Wednesday afternoon near the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt carrying plastic saws and hammers and symbolically attempted…

The Israeli army shot a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday midday from a nearby Israeli military zone located on the northern borders of the Gaza Strip. Medical sources…

Israeli Shin Bet head, Yuval Diskin, called on Tuesday for reoccupying the Gaza Strip and maintaining permanent Israeli military presence in the coastal region. Diskin claimed that Hamas is using…

Around 60 Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals from 15 countries will sail to Gaza during the sixty-year anniversary of the Nakba “the forcible expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their…

The Al-qassam brigades, the armed wing of the ruling Hamas party in Gaza, announced on Tuesday that one of their fighters was killed and two others were wounded in eastern…

According to the Israeli group Physicians for Human Rights, the Israeli secret service has recently prevented fourteen critically ill patients from leaving the Gaza Strip for medical treatment due to…

Palestinian students ask British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday to press Israel to let Gazan students that have been accepted at foreign universities go to school in September. Students…

Local sources reported that the spokesperson of the Israeli Government Avy Bazner accuses Hamas for delaying prisoners swap deal with Israel confirming that Israel is working hard to release the…

Palestinian sources reported that a group of unknown gunmen shot and killed a Palestinian Police officer in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning. The sources said…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday evening that a 10-month old infant died at a local hospital in Gaza after Israel barred his family from transferring…

Medical sources reported that the number of patients who died due to the Israeli siege in the Gaza Strip for over a year reached 209 as one more patient was…

The Popular Committee Against the Siege reported on Wednesday that Israel barred the entry of fuel and also barred for three days the entry of cement used for constructions. The…

The manager of the UNRWA operations in the Gaza Strip John Jing reported on Tuesday morning that the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair postponed his visit to the Gaza…

In a special interview with IMEMC, a leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs brigades in Gaza, Abu Almontaser, said that his resistance group preserves the right to respond to Israeli army…

Palestinian sources reported that the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the envoy of the International Quartet Committee for peace in the Middle East will visit the Gaza Strip…

Medical sources reported that the number of patients who died due to the Israeli siege on the Gaza strip reached 208 as three patients were announced dead on Monday morning.…

 Local media reported that a Palestinian man was shot by Israeli troops on Monday morning in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, near the border fence between Israel and…

The Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported on Sunday that a 19-month toddler died at a local hospital in Gaza after the Israeli Authorities barred her family from transferring her to…

The Deputy Head of the Hamas political bureau, Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouq, stated Saturday that the Hamas movement rejected an Israeli offer to release only 71 detainees out of a…

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…