Five deaths reported in Gaza tunnel collapse, nearly 15 wounded
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported that five Palestinians were killed and at least 15 others were wounded when a tunnel on the Gaza- Egypt border, near Rafah, collapsed…
One Palestinian wounded, 4 missing in a tunnel collapse in Rafah
Palestinian sources reported on Friday at night that one Palestinian was wounded and four others went missing when a tunnel on the border between Rafah and Egypt collapsed during evening…
Israeli naval forces detain 10 Palestinian fishermen on Rafah shores
The Israeli naval forces detained on Tuesday morning 10 Palestinian fishermen , while on board on Rafah shores to the south of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources reported. Witnesses…
After three days of opening, Rafah border crossing has been closed
Egyptian media sources reported that the Egyptian authorities closed until further notice the Rafah border crossing, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The Egyptian Authorities who re-opened the…
A Palestinian man killed as Israeli army sweeps into Rafah
Palestinian medical sources in the Khan Younis city in southern Gaza Strip said that Osama Alastal, 23, was killed Sunday morning. Witnesses said that Alastal was among a group of…
Islamic Jihad fighter dies of wounds sustained two days ago in Rafah
The Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, reported that one of its fighters died on Friday evening of wounds sustained during an Israeli shelling that targeted…
Rafah shelling kills prominent member of the Al Quds Brigades
The Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, reported that the Wednesday evening Israeli shelling which targeted a workshop in Rafah, in the southern part of the…
Report: Hamas police violently dispersed pro-Fateh rally in Gaza
According to the Gaza-based Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, a Hamas-run police force in Gaza used batons and rifle butts to beat demonstrators who gathered in Rafah, in the southern…
Palestinian man killed by Israeli airstike in Rafah
On Sunday night, Israeli forces launched an airstrike on a vehicle driving on the street in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.The victim was identified as Nur Ad-Dabari. Several bystanders…
Parents of murdered British student: ‘Five years later, still no justice’
Five years ago today, 22-year old photography student Tom Hurndall was gunned down by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, while holding up his empty hands and pleading with the…
A Human chain in Rafah protests high prices under the siege
Scores of local Palestinian residents in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, organized on Sunday a human chain in protest of prices of goods , made high, because of…
School children in Rafah exposed to Israeli army gunfire
Palestinian school children in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah have been reportedly exposed to Israeli army gun fire on Thursday morning, as resistance fighters clashed with the army…
Palestinian dies of wounds sustained Sunday in Rafah
Palestinian medical sources reported on Monday that one resident died of wounds sustained during an Israeli military invasion into Al Shouka area in Rafah, in the southern part of the…
Troops bar farmers from reaching their lands east of Rafah
Israeli soldiers stationed at the eastern borders of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, barred on Thursday hundreds of residents from reaching their agricultural lands as the…
Four Palestinian killed in Israeli air strikes in Rafah
In two separate Israeli air strike attacks, at least four Palestinians were killed in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, in Rafah city.The first Israeli air strike hit a…
Israeli army storms Rafah as Palestinian president calls for truce with Israel
For the first time in two weeks, Israeli army carried out early on Tuesday dawn a ground attack on southern Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians, said to be Hamas members,…
More civilian deaths in Gaza
In an isolated barely field, located just few hundred meters away from the Israel-Gaza border line in eastern Rafah city, a heap of barely lies in the middle of the…
Clashes erupt in Rafah, killing two and wounding severeal others
Media reports and witnesses said that two people were killed and several were wounded during a shootout between Hamas supporters and personnel of the Fatah-linked preventive security forces in Rafah…
Israeli warplanes bombard a buildling in Rafah, killing seven
Israeli warplanes bombarded Wednesday a building, belonging to the executive force of Hamas, formed by the former interior minister, Saed Siyam of Hamas, killing seven executive force members and wounding…
Rafah police chief resigns over deteriorating security situation
Chief of the Palestinian police department of Rafah city, in southern Gaza, Zuheir Shahin, resigned today in protest of the deteriorating security situation in the Gaza Strip. Shahin said that…
Special Israeli army force invades Rafah and kidnaps two civilians
Palestinian sources reported that an undercover Israeli army force invaded the costal Gaza strip city of Rafah and kidnapped two civilians on Thursday at dawn. The sources stated that the…
In Gaza, chaos versus democracy and democracy versus chaos
‘Perhaps some youth are trying to imitate what’s going in the outside world; we don’t have solid information on the existence of such groups,’ said Palestinian Interior Ministry spokesman Khaled…
Troops shells houses near the Gaza Beach
Palestinian sources reported on Monday at night that Israeli navy ships fired rounds of live ammunition at Palestinian houses near the Gaza beach. The shelling caused damage to the shelled…
Unknown gunmen kill security officer and wound three policemen at Rafah terminal
Palestinian sources confirmed Friday that one national security personnel was killed and three other policemen were wounded after unknown gunmen opened fire at the Rafah crossing terminal in Rafah, Gaza.…
UN report: Rafah Crossing terminal was closed 50% during April
A United Nations report said Thursday that Israel kept the Rafah crossing terminal closed half of the scheduled opening days between 4 and April17. The Office of Coordination of Humanitarian…
Two civilians killed in southern Gaza strip
Two Palestinian men were killed in Rafah city in the southern part of the Gaza strip due to armed clashes between rival families in the city on Thursday midday. Palestinian…
One civilian killed in the southern Gaza strip
One Palestinian man was killed in Rafah city in the southern part of the Gaza strip due to armed clashes between rival families in the city on Thursday midday. Medical…
Egyptian border-guards uncover two tunnels on Gaza border
Official Egyptian sources reported on Monday that Egyptian border-guards arrested one Palestinian who allegedly crossed from the Gaza Strip into Egypt through one of two tunnels that were recently dug…
A Palestinian Resident of Rafah Dies of Wounds Sustained by Israeli Gunfire
Palestinian medical sources in Rafah, south of Gaza Strip, announced Saturday the death of a local resident due to wounds he sustained three years ago during an Israeli army invasion…
Israeli Gunboats Wound Two Palestinian Fishermen on Rafah Shore
Israeli gunboats wounded Thursday two Palestinian fishermen who were on board their boats on the Rafah shoreline in the southern Gaza Strip. Local hospital sources confirmed the injury of two…
Five residents of Rafah injured in Hamas-Fateh clashes
Palestinian medical sources at Abu Yousef Al Najjar Hospital in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported on Monday night that five residents were shot and injured…
European Observers’ Chief at Rafah Crossing Terminal Rethinks Presence
The head of the European observers at the Rafah crossing terminal, General Pietro Pistolese, said Sunday that if Israel continues closure of the Rafah crossing terminal in the southern Gaza…
Rafah crossing re-opens on Monday
The Rafah crossing will be reopened on Monday morning from both sides Palestinian sources reported. Nathmi Muhana, the director of the borders and crossing control in the Palestinian Authority told…
Troops abduct five fishermen in Rafah
On Tuesday morning, the Israeli naval forces abducted five Palestinian fishermen near the shores of the costal city of Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza strip. Local sources…
One Palestinian Girl Killed, Two Women Wounded during Clashes in Rafah
Palestinian medical sources confirmed that an 8 year-old girl was shot dead and two women were wounded in a crossfire during tribal clashes in Rafah city, in the southern Gaza…
One killed, two injured near Rafah border
Palestinian sources reported that one Palestinian man was killed and other two injured when an underground tunnel collapsed on them near the Palestinian Egyptian border in Rafah city in the…
Israel Abruptly Closes Rafah Crossing
Israel abruptly closed Tuesday morning the Rafah crossing terminal, Gaza’s sole outlet to the outside world, after the crossing was reopened yesterday for three days. Israel abruptly closed Tuesday morning…
Chaos at Rafah border crossing, one man crushed to death
On Thursday the Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border was re-opened after a day’s closure. As hoards of Palestinian civilians accumulated, panic erupted amidst Israeli troops’ attempt to achieve calm…
Israeli war-ship opens fire at Palestinian fishermen in Rafah
Palestinian sources reported that an Israeli war-ship opened heavy gunfire at Palestinian fishing boats and civilians at Tal Al Sultan beach, on the Rafah city coast in the southern Gaza…
Rafah border crossing reopened
Palestinian sources at Rafah border crossing, in the southren Gaza strip, stated that the crossing was reopened on Monday morning. Wa’el Dahap, the spokesperson of the Palestinian groups working at…
Rafah Border Crossing Re-Opened
The European third party which monitors the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has re-opened the crossing after it was closed by Isreali troops at noon on Tuesday. No…
Israeli Naval Army Abducts Three Fishermen on Rafah Shore
The Israeli naval army abduct three fishermen from their on board their boat on Tuesday, near the southern Gaza Strip shore of Rafah, Palestinian security sources said. The Israeli naval…
Rafah border crossing reopened
Palestinian sources reported that the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza strip was reopened on Monday morning and will stay open until five PM. The sources added that…
Unknown gunmen injures a Palestinian resistance fighter in Rafah south of Gaza
Murad Al Akhras, 20, Aqsa brigades resistance fighter, was shot and injured after being targeted by a group of unknown gunmen in Rafah city south of the Gaza strip on…
The Rafah terminal to open on both directions Thursday
Palestinian security sources reported on Tuesday that the Rafah Border Crossing, between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, will be opened on Thursday morning on both directions for five continuous days.…
Israeli Gunboats Abduct Three Fisherman off Rafah Seashore
Israeli army gunboats have abducted three Palestinian fishermen off the Rafah seashore on Tuesday at dawn. The three were identified as Ayman Al Ejbur, Isma'el Basalah, and his brother Samer,…
Israeli Navy Boats Abduct Three Palestinian Men Near Rafah Beach
Palestinian sources reported that Israeli army navel boats have abducted three Palestinian brothers near Rafah beach south of the Gaza strip on Saturday. Majied Farahat, his two brothers Mohamed and…
The Rafah border crossing to open nine hours on Saturday
Palestinian security sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Friday evening that the Rafah terminal, between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, will be opened on Saturday on both directions from…
EU monitors shut down Rafah Crossing after Palestinian PM Haniyeh crosses to Egypt in car
The Rafah Border Crossing, in southern Gaza Strip connecting Gaza to Egypt, was shut down by European monitors on Thursday midday after Palestinian Prime Minister Isma'el Haniyeh passed through the…
Rafah border crossing Re-opened
The Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, which is the only way in or out of the Strip, was reopened on Thursday morning from both sides. Palestinian Sources…
Palestinian Muslims Wait at Rafah Crossing to Participate in the Hajj
Hundreds of Palestinians are lining up at the Rafah Crossing to make their way to the Holy City of Mecca for the Hajj (Islamic Religious Pilgrimage). Today was the first…
Army opens the Rafah Border Crossing
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported that Israeli soldiers reopened the Rafah Border Crossing, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and that residents started crossing on both…
One day after opening it, Israel closes the Rafah Border Crossing
Wa'el Abu Al Thahab, media spokesperson of the border crossing and the presidential guards, reported on Thursday, that Israel closed the Rafah Border Crossing, linking between Egypt and Gaza Strip.…
Rafah border crossing reopens
Palestinian security sources reported that the Rafah Border Crossing, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip was reopened on Wednesday morning. The Rafah crossing, which is the only way…
Rafah border/internment camp
[My son] Yousuf and I, along with my parents, left the US to Gaza nearly 3 weeks ago. For two of those weeks, we have been stuck 50 km from…
The Rafah border crossing re-closed on Wednesday
The Israeli army re-closed the Rafah border crossing on Wednesday morning south of the Gaza strip after opening it Tuesday after noon. On Tuesday Palestinian sources reproted that an agreement…
Naval boats injure a fisherman near Rafah
Israeli army naval boats opened fire at Palestinian fishermen boats near the coast of Rafah beach, in southern Gaza and injured one on Wednesday at dawn. The fishermen reported that…
Lieberman: “Abbas is irrelevant, we must repossess Rafah Crossing, Philadelphi Route”
Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli Minister of the so-called “Strategic Threats” said that Israeli must repossess the Rafah Border Crossing and the Philadelphi Route in the southern part of the Gaza…
Army takes over a house in Rafah and turns it into a military post
Israeli troops operating in Rafah at the southern border of the Gaza Strip attacked and took over one Palestinian home on Monday morning. Soldiers took over the roof top of…
The reopening of Rafah border crossing
Palestinian security sources in Gaza reported on Thursday morning that the European monitors came back to the Rafah border crossing and reopened it on Thursday morning. The crossing was opened…
Rafah Border crossing opened for one day
Palestinian sources reported that the Rafah Border Crossing, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, was reopened both on Tuesday from eight in the morning until five in the…
Rafah border crossing south of Gaza reopens on Tuesday
Palestinian security sources reported on Tuesday morning that the Israeli army has reopened the Rafah border crossing in the south of the Gaza strip. The source added that the crossing…
Army withdraws from the Rafah Border Crossing area
The Ramattan News Agency reported that Israeli tanks and vehicles withdrew on Saturday at dawn from the area surrounding the Rafah Border Crossing, in the southern part of the Gaza…