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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…
Israeli sources said today that Israel decided to partially reopen the Eritz checkpoint (Beit Hanoun crossing), to the north of Gaza Strip. The sources told Israel’s radio that the reopening…
Dr. Fathi Abu Maghli, Palestinian minister of health of the West Bank-based government, warned of an imminent health crisis across the Gaza Strip because of the lack of fuel and…
A shipment of food aid for the people of the Gaza Strip was denied entry by Israeli military forces on Monday. The shipment consisted of several trucks full of food…
On Sunday afternoon, a group of Palestinian children with special needs held a march in Gaza City. They held banners and carried signs appealing to the people of the world…
Exiled leader of Hamas, Khale Mash’al, agreed yesterday to a Palestinian state within the 1967 border lines , including the Gaza Strip, West Bank and East Jerusalem, if such a…
On Monday evening, an Israeli ground-to-ground missile and concurrent ground invasion resulted in the deaths of three Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia. The Israeli military…
The Hamas party’s members of parliament demanded on Monday an Arab intervention for lifting the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip. The MPs, headed by Ahmad Bahar, deputy-speaker of the…
The Palestinian health ministry of the ruling Hamas party in Gaza has been reportedly fighting to keep up providing services for the 1.5 million residents of Gaza Strip as the…
Palestinian local sources reported that a group of unknown gunmen detonated a home-made bomb near the Al Dera Tourist hotel west of Gaza city on Monday morning. The hotel is…
The Israeli army killed one Palestinian resistance fighter, injured four others and kidnapped at least 27 civilians during an invasion targeting the northern part of the Gaza strip on Monday…
Chief of the Israeli liaison committee at the Eritz checkpoint in northern Gaza Strip, denied in a statement, faxed to press today , that Israel has not recently deprived Gaza…
The ruling Hamas party in Gaza considered Sunday the Israeli army air strikes on Hamas fighters in recent days as an indication of Israel's failure to strike such fighters in…
In apparent retaliation for a Palestinian resistance attack on Karm Abu Salem crossing earlier Saturday, Israeli forces fired a missile on the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip…
Three Palestinian resistance fighters were killed and at least 13 Israeli soldiers were wounded in an attack launched by Al-Qassam Brigade, the armed wing of Hamas, at the Karm Abu…
Palestinian ambulances in Gaza Strip will stop working completely very soon due to fuel shortage, the administration of the First Aid and Emergency department in the Gaza Strip said Saturday.Dr.…
Member of the Political Bureau of the leftists Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Khalida Jarrar, slammed Hamas security forces in Gaza for attacking a protest organized by…
Luisa Morgantini, Vice President of the European Parliament issued a press release demanding cease-fire and an end to the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip and slammed Israels decision to…
The Al Mezan Center For Human Rights issued a report on Thursday slamming the ongoing Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people and the targeting of reporters in the occupied Palestinian…
Amna Abu Sido was waiting for a ride at the so-called Universities Junction in the heart of Gaza City on Tuesday afternoon when she explained how difficult her commute has…
Palestinian sources reported that three Palestinian fighters died on Thursday, two due to previous wounds and one during clashes with the Israeli army at midday today. Osama Abu Anzah, of…
Oh well… Gaza residents will apparently be able to collect the bodies of their loved ones, and maybe gather their body parts and bury them peacefully without being afraid of…
After Israeli forces dropped a missile on the vehicle of a Reuters cameraman, killing 12, the head of the Reuters News Agency issued a statement condemning the attack, and calling…
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) issued a press release slamming the latest Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip and the Wednesday killing of eighteen residents, including…
Dr. Taiseer Tamimi, Palestinian Chief Religious Justice, slammed on Wednesday the latest Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip which led to the death of 18residents, including children, and dozens of…
El Dr. Taiseer Tamimi, el presidente religioso del tribunal supremo palestino, criticó el miércoles duramente los últimos ataques israelÃes en la Franja de Gaza que causaron la muerte a 18…
Two children and a journalist are among those killed by the latest Israeli airstrike on al-Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip – this attack brings the total number killed…
Deputy-head of the Gaza Strip fuel society, Mahmoud Al-Khuzendar, stated that Israel allowed small quantities of fuel into the coastal region on Wednesday afternoon. In a phone interview with IMEMC,…
Israeli government sources said today that Israel will not resume providing the Gaza strip with fuel needed to generate electricity and cooking gas. The decision comes shortly after three Israeli…
Five Palestinian resistance fighters, a Palestinian civilian, and three Israeli soldiers were killed due during four different incidents in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Palestinian sources said that four fighters…
Two leaders of the ruling Hamas party in Gaza, Mahmoud aL-Zahar and Said Siyam, headed for Egypt on Wednesday morning to meet with ex-U.S President Jimmy Carter, upon an invitation…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Tuesday at night that one Palestinian was killed and three others were wounded in an Israeli air strike that targeted an…
The Palestinian Police informed the family of Sami Khattab that the body of their son was located in an open area, 700 meters away from the Palestine International University, 200…
Sami Abu Zuhri, spokesperson for the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, denied on Tuesday media reports that were published by the Al Ahram Egyptian daily newspaper which claimed that…
A Palestinian resident from the Gaza Strip city of Deir Elbalah, was reportedly found killed Tuesday in a vague circumstances. Palestinian media sources and witnesses said that Sami Khattab, a…
Israeli government sources told media agencies on Tuesday that Israel will resume on Wednesday supplying Gaza with minimum quantities of fuel needed to generate electricity and cooking gasIsraeli Defense Minister,…
UNRWA Commissioner-General, Karen Abu Zeid, stated on Monday that the situation in the Gaza Strip is disastrous, and that extensive efforts are needed to end the crisis in the coastal…
A Palestinian fighter was reportedly killed later on Monday night, after an Israeli drone fired a missile on the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanoun, media sources said. The…
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Monday that four major universities had to shut down due to shortages of fuel as the students became unable to travel from…
The Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, reported on Monday that its fighters managed to shoot an Israeli soldier with a sniper-rifle in Khuza’a town, in…
A Palestinian resistance group announced that its fighters attacked an Israeli army patrol along the Gaza-Israel border, in central Gaza, on Monday morning. The Al Quds brigades, the armed wing…
Palestinian medical sources in Gaza City reported that one Palestinian patient died on Monday midday, succumbing to cancer after having been denied a permit by the occupying Israeli army to…
The Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri, on Sunday challenged talks that are currently underway between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert. In a statement…
The Gaza-based Palestinian Minister of Agriculture, Mohammad Al-Agha, stated in a press conference on Monday that he held the international community responsible for the deteriorating economic conditions in the Gaza…
The Israeli cabinet decided on Sunday that there is no humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and that the ruling Hamas party exploits the shortage of fuel supplies. Israeli housing…
A Palestinian mortar shell was reportedly landed just close to an Israeli army officer to the south of Gaza Strip, Israeli media reports said Sunday. The reports pointed out that…
Hamas’ spokesman, Sami Abu Zuhri, rejected in a statement, faxed to press today that Israel does not say truth regarding a fueling crisis in the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli…
Palestinian medical sources said on Sunday that three Palestinian residents from the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip were killed in an explosion that ripped through a house.…
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, set forth a number of conditions before any truce with the Islamist Hamas goes into effect, the Saudi-based aL-Wattan newspaper quoted Palestinian sources as saying.…
Saturday afternoon, a number of Israeli armored vehicles and military bulldozers invaded the area east of Beit Hanoun town north of the Gaza Strip. Local eyewitnesses reported that heavy vehicles …
Jamal al Khudari, head of the popular committee against the siege warned on Saturday with the continued stoppage of fuel to Gaza, then the power plants will be forced to…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians and injured 28 others in several attacks carried against the Gaza Strip on Friday. Most of…
Two Palestinian fighters of the ruling Hamas party have been reportedly killed by two Israeli air strikes on southern Gaza Strip on Friday, as a column of Israeli tanks rolled…
The Israeli “Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center” claimed on Thursday that Hamas movement managed to build up its military capabilities in the Gaza Strip and recruited nearly 20.000 fighters despite…
A contingent of Israeli army incurred on Thursday into the central Gaza Strip village of Wad Alsalqa, as another Israeli force arrested five Palestinian inhabitants in the northern Gaza city…
On Thursday a group of unknown gunmen attacked a beauty Salon in central Gaza city. Witnesses said masked gunmen placed a home-made bomb inside the shop which exploded totally destroying…
A number of Israeli tanks invaded on Thursday farm lands east of Khan Younis town southern Gaza strip. Witnesses said that the tanks stormed the area and surrounded a group…
Cairo sent out yesterday a firm warning to the ruling Hamas in Gaza against any breach of the Egyptian borders with the Gaza Strip. According to the London-based aL-Hayat Arabic…
Israeli deputy-defense minister, Matan Valnaie, said on Thursday that Israel will be holding Hamas accountable for the yesterday’s cross-border attack by three Palestinian resistance groups. Valnaie, speaking to the Israeli…
The Israeli army stated on Wednesday that it estimates that the objective of Wednesday’s attack against the Nahal Oz base aimed at abducting Israeli soldiers, and that the attack had…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that eight Palestinians, including three children, were killed on Wednesday in three Israeli air-strikes that targeted Gaza city. Two fighters were killed…
Three Palestinian civilians and two Israelis were killed on Wednesday afternoon in two deferent attacks in and near the Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources reported that three Palestinian civilians including two…
Palestinian and Israeli sources reported on Wednesday morning that one Israeli soldier and one Palestinian Resistance fighter were killed in clashes between Israeli troops invading the southern part of the…