Category: Gaza Siege

For the third year in a row, the farmers in the Gaza Strip will not be able to export flowers to European markets, due to Israeli restrictions.Since Dutch funding for…

Israeli media revealed, on Saturday, that a former Israeli military officer had been briefly detained and questioned by British police at a London airport, due to his participation in the…

7 people have been rescued, but 14 remain missing Tuesday morning, after Egyptian authorities flooded a tunnel across the Egypt-Gaza border with no warning. The tunnel runs between Gaza and…

Israeli Navy boats opened fire, on Monday morning, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters, in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the besieged coastal…

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon revealed, on Thursday, that his government would start digging a ‘groove’ around the Gaza Strip. According to Israeli military radio, Ya’alon said that his army…

A rocket launched from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel on Sunday evening, with no reported injuries, according to the Israeli army.An Israeli army spokesperson said that sirens sounded…

On Thursday, a number of Israeli armored tanks infiltrated the border with Gaza from the eastern part of al-Qarara town, to the northeast of Khan Younes, according to local sources.WAFA…

The Gaza Strip was attacked at least 696 times on different occasions since the August 2014 ceasefire, said Tobias Ellwood, the UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Foreign…

On Friday morning, the Egyptian army started to pump large amounts of sea water into large pipes that have recently been extended across the border connecting Gaza and Egypt, in…

The Energy and Natural Resources Authority in Gaza announced, Friday evening, that the sole power generation plant in Gaza is scheduled to shut down Saturday, September 12, due to “General…

Two Palestinian children from Rafah, in southern Gaza, were injured Monday night by random gunfire on civilian houses by the Egyptian army.Media sources said, according to the PNN, that Adam…

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has reported that one of its fighters was killed, Saturday, in a tunnel accident, in Khan Younis, in…

The Palestinian Ministry Of Health in Gaza has reported that four main hospitals in the besieged and warn-torn coastal region are facing closure as they are running out of fuel…

Eyewitnesses from Beit Hanoun city, northern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, said that four Israeli tanks and three bulldozers entered the Strip, opened fire and razed civilian lands.Locals said that the…

Egypt will be opening the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Palestinian Gaza Strip on August 17 – 22 in both ,directions. The border crossing was closed to regular…

“I have written this book as a way of preserving and passing on stories that need to be told.”I visited North Vietnam in 1968, and had meetings with its leaders…

A number of hospitals in Gaza Strip may be forced to close, due to lack of funding and an ongoing humanitarian crisis, an official warned on Thursday.Deputy Palestinian Minister of…

Amnesty International: ‘Strong evidence’ that Israel committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity. ‘Nobody can claim that they don’t know what happened on Friday the 1st of August. We…

The Independent Commission for Human Rights warned, this Saturday, of the aggravated humanitarian situation in Gaza, due to continued electricity outage, calling on defacto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas for immediate…

Israeli authorities have prevented Israeli power firm from repairing electricity grids supplying Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said on Monday.A technical error in the Israeli side cut off two main power…

Hamas’ armed wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, held a rally in Gaza City, late Wednesday, to mark the anniversary of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.According to AFP, several hundred people…

Israeli 51-day offensive on Gaza last year was the “deadliest” and “most destructive escalation” since 1967, according to UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).Spokesman for the office…

A new fact-finding search has concluded that the attempts to isolate Gaza, over the years, have failed while Gaza continues to occupy an especially central and crucial role, and must…

The British government has been accused of ignoring evidence that its weaponry may have been used by Israel in its assault on Gaza, last year, after fresh arms deals worth…

On June 26th 2015, four boats of the 2015 the Freedom Flotilla III set sail toward Gaza to try to break Israel’s nine-year-long economic siege on Gaza. The ships are…

Passengers of the Freedom Flotilla III bound for Gaza have announced that one of the boats, named Juliano after the co-founder and director of The Freedom Theatre, Juliano Mer Khamis…

Egyptian military forces have started digging massive tunnel along borders with the Gaza Strip, according to Days of Palestine.Security sources confirmed on Monday that Egyptian authorities have begun digging a…

The Knesset is currently holding a ‘heated debate’ on whether or not to rescind the diplomatic immunity of MK Basel Ghattas of the Joint List party, after he announced on…

The Hague-based International Criminal Court will send inspectors to arrive in Israel on June 27, as part of probe into suspected “war crimes” during last summer’s war in Gaza, Haaretz…

Israeli authorities, on Monday, closed Erez and Kerem Shalom border crossings into Gaza, citing “security reasons”.Only few hundred truckloads of aid at a time and a very few number of…

A number of Israeli military units, including bulldozers, today, infiltrated east of the neighborhood Shuja’eyya, east of Gaza City, in a leveling operation on agricultural border lands.Eyewitnesses reported, according to…

The Gazan energy authority has announced that Gaza’s sole power plant will stopping running again on Saturday due to fuel shortages.In a statement issued on Friday the authority blamed the…

Israel closed the Gaza Strip’s only functioning commercial crossing (Kerem Shalom), on Sunday, for the Jewish holiday ‘Feast of Weeks’, a Palestinian official said.’The Israeli closure would disrupt trade traffic…

Israeli navy ships attacked, on Friday morning, several Palestinian fishing boats in the Sudaniyya area, northwest of Gaza City, causing significant property damage.Eyewitnesses said the Navy fired dozens of rounds…

Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Sunday morning, on fishing boats in Palestinian territorial waters, in northern Gaza, causing damage to one boat, before the soldiers kidnapped two fishers.Nizar Ayyash,…

On the 3rd of May, the trial of nine Palestinian fishermen kidnapped by the Egyptian army while fishing in waters of the border city of Rafah, took place in the…

Israel’s military command perhaps pushes for escalation in order to increase the army’s budget, claims a military budget officer in an anonymous Facebook posting. “Wars, operations, exceptional events, they were…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that a tunnel worker was killed in a partial tunnel collapse accident in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The sources…

Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Friday morning, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters, causing property damage.The navy targeted the boats near Gaza city, causing…

A Palestinian worker died on Monday when a tunnel collapsed in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a health official said.A Ministry of Health spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra told Ma’an News…

Attacks to be considered of ‘extreme severity toward those who looked to them for protection and sought refuge and were granted shelter there, had their hope and trust denied”, according…

The Israeli Authorities canceled entry permits of the 200 Palestinian, from the besieged Gaza Strip, who were previously allowed to enter Jerusalem for Friday prayers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.General Yoav…

Several Israeli vehicles raided lands in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, witnesses said.Sources told Ma’an News Agency that four Israeli vehicles and two bulldozers raided and leveled Palestinian farming…

Presidential Commission for the Coordination of Goods into the Gaza Strip, confirmed the admission of 700 truckloads of goods, aid, and construction materials into Gaza, on Tuesday.Head of the commission,…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young man was killed, Tuesday, in a siege-busting tunnel accident in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.The sources said Ahmad…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has announced that the crisis of shortage in medicines and medical disposables has been critically aggravated because of the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip…

A new report by Defense for Children International-Palestine, titled ‘Operation Protective Edge: A War Waged On Gaza’s Children’, has displayed documented events proving that that Israel deliberately murdered Palestinian children…

Six months after donors pledged billions of dollars for the devastated Gaza Strip, most of the money remains blocked, and reconstruction efforts are painfully slow, a coalition of aid groups…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young Palestinian man was killed, on Saturday at night, in a tunnel accident near the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in Rafah,…

UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA has only received funding to reconstruct 200 of the 9,061 houses destroyed in Gaza, said a report released on Thursday.While some 60,000 Palestine refugee…

According to the official government-run, Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) the Palestinian government announced, Tuesday, singing an agreement with the Kuwaiti government in which the latter pledges to donate…

The Japanese government has announced a new grant to the World Food Program worth US $5 million (606.3 million yen), in support of the poorest Palestinian families who suffer from…

Tilling the land in Gaza is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. The Zionist Occupation Forces fire on the peasants and their families while they sow or…

The official UN death-toll for the 2014 war shows that 1,549 Palestinian civilians were killed in comparison to four Israelis, and 504 Palestinian children were killed for one Israeli child.…

Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Saturday at dawn, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Palestinian waters, in the Sudaniyya Sea area, northwest of Gaza City.The fishers said…

Head of the Qatari project, Mohammed al-Emadi, announced Wednesday that the status of reconstruction in Gaza is to witness a real breakthrough, noting that Qatar is to provide 70% of…

Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Thursday morning, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters, in the Sudaniyya Sea area, northwest of Gaza City.Local fishers said…

The only power plant in the Gaza Strip is set to resume operations after a fuel delivery, in Friday, Palestinian officials said.The Kerem Shalom crossing will be opened as an…

The Gaza Strip’s sole power plant was shut down, Wednesday evening, as Qatari-donated fuel supplies finally ran out, a Gaza power authority said.’The power plant stopped producing electricity during the…

A United Nations envoy, Tuesday, called on Israel to investigate the killing of about 1,563 Palestinian civilians, one third of them children, during the 2014 offensive on Gaza, and to…

Israeli navy boats fired, on Wednesday morning, rounds of live ammunition on a number of Palestinian fishing boats, in territorial waters in the Sudaniyya area, northwest of Gaza City. Eyewitnesses…

The United Nations has expressed concerns about the economic situation in the besieged Gaza Strip, saying that the lifting of the Israeli siege on the coastal enclave is the “prerequisite”…

Gaza’s only power plant is due to shut down by the end of this week, as donor funding for fuel in the coastal territory has run out, according to officials.The…

A top United Nations official warned, on Wednesday, of an ‘increasingly toxic environment’ in the besieged Gaza Strip and called on Israel to release Palestinian tax revenues.Briefing the UN Security…

Gaza is in desperate need of power. One organization hopes to bring clean, renewable energy to Gaza with the installation of solar panels.Over the past few months an international team…

A 9-year-old Palestinian boy named Zaid has died, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, after Egypt and Israel refused to open the Rafah border crossing to allow him to…

Israeli Navy ships attacked, on Thursday morning, a number of Palestinian fishing boats in the Sudaniyya Sea, northwest of Gaza City, opened fire on them and forced them back to…

Palestinians angry at their deterorating living conditions in the Gaza Strip stormed the United Nations headquarters to protest UNRWA’s announcement to suspend its cash assistance program for the homeless families.Anadolu…

Gaza, 27 January 2015: UNRWA has been forced to suspend its cash assistance programme in Gaza to tens of thousands of people for repairs to damaged and destroyed homes and…

A Palestinian fishing boat drowned, on Monday evening, after Israeli navy ships fired rounds of live ammunition at it in Palestinian waters, west of Gaza city. The soldiers also kidnapped…

Rafah crossing has been sealed for a total of 241 days during 2014, and opened for only 125, the Border and Crossing Authority reported Sunday.According to Al Ray Palestinian Media…

The Egyptian navy, on Friday, shot and injured a Palestinian fisherman for allegedly entering Egyptian waters south of Gaza, according to officials in Egypt.Ma’an News Agency reports that a Palestinian…

Egyptian authorities informed Palestinian officials in Gaza that they will not be reopening the Rafah crossing for three days on Tuesday, as previously promised, after an Egyptian solider was kidnapped…

Egyptian military forces, late Friday, shot and killed a Palestinian child at the Rafah border between Egypt and Gaza.Witnesses told Ma’an News Agency that Egyptian soldiers opened fire at four…

An Egyptian committee has finished surveying the homes of residents living between 500 and 1,000 meters of the Gaza border, in preparation for extending the buffer zone to a width…

Israeli military jeeps opened fire towards Palestinian farmers along Gaza’s southern border region, near the town of Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis.According to Al Ray correspondence, several Israeli military jeeps…

The European Union, Wednesday, made a contribution of approximately €23.5 million to the November payment of salaries and pensions for around 68,500 Palestinian civil servants and pensioners in the West…

A number of academics, lawyers and politicians have asserted the claim that the international committee to investigate Israeli war crimes in Gaza must be based in Jordan, stressing that they…

Dr. Mads Gilbert has been providing volunteer medical services for Palestinians for the better part of three decades. In 2014 Israeli authorities informed Dr. Gilbert that he had been banned…

The Gaza reconstruction plan is hostage to Israeli security demands, and was drawn up without participation of Gaza’s population or Hamas. International donors talk about “accountability” and “local ownership”, yet…

Israeli occupation authorities have barred, at Kerm Abu Salem crossing, ten truckloads of agricultural products from passing out of the war-torn and economically besieged Gaza Strip, due to an alleged…

After refusing to cooperate with a one UN committee, Jerusalem has reportedly agreed to work with another, so long as certain conditions are met.According to the PNN, Israeli newspaper Haaretz…

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has announced the formation of an internal panel to investigate specified incidents which happened in the Gaza Strip between July 8th and August 26th ,…

PNN correspondence revealed, on Thursday, that the UN has decided to deduct $30m worth of ‘administrative costs’ from the aid donated for reconstructing the Gaza Strip.An Egyptian official, speaking on…

In the wake of the 50-day Israeli assault that devastated the Gaza Strip, reconstruction must not be the only priority, according to the nonprofit organization Euro-Mid Observer for Human Rights.…

UNRWA Official Press Release Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Malala Yousafzai, has announced that she is donating 50,000 US dollars to rebuild an UNRWA school damaged during the recent fighting in…

“I was told initially that Arafa had been injured in an Israeli strike. Of course I was concerned, but many people get injured in his line of work and what…

A week after the Cairo conference and the recent visits to Gaza by the Palestinian Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah and UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, UNRWA is scaling up its…

The Government of India has pledged $4 million in contributions to the Palestinian National Early Recovery and Reconstruction Plan for Gaza, designed by the Palestinian Authority, according to a Thursday…

In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate Your Excellency President Abdel Fattah Al Sissi President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Your Excellency Mr. Børge Brende, Minister of…

United States Secretary of State John Kerry announced, on Monday, $414 million in US assistance to the Palestinians.This will include more than $212 million that will be delivered through USAID,…

Global donors pledged several billions of dollars in aid to the devastated Gaza Strip, on Sunday, despite warnings that the coastal enclave remained a ‘tinderbox’, following Israel’s relentless bombardament of…

The government of Ecuador recently announced that a second cargo load of humanitarian aid was brought to the Gaza Strip, on Thursday.According to the RIA Novosti news site, Ecuadorian authorities…

High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security, Federica Mogherni, says that the European Union will have an important role in Gaza’s reconstruction process.According to Al Ray Palestinian…

‘Resuming the operations of Gaza power plant (GPP) is contingent on securing the necessary fuel,’ the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced Monday, in its…

The Palestinian cabinet has approved a $5 billion plan for the economic revival and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, in the wake of the recent Israeli assault, according to a…

The United Nations has brokered a deal on imports of construction materials into the Gaza Strip ‘to ensure they will not be diverted by Hamas’, Mr. Robert Serry, UN envoy…

A Ministry of Health official has warned of an impending health disaster, as hospital hygiene services providers threaten to engage in a strike over unpaid salaries.Director General of Administrative Affairs…

Pernille Ironside, Chief of the UNICEF field office in Gaza has staed that “UNICEF and its partners will be playing a full part in the longer-term reconstruction of schools and…

More than a week has passed since the ceasefire started and yet no significant easing of the blockade has been seen. Drones are still circulating over the rooftops, maybe carrying…