Category: Internal Unrest

Palestinian sources reported that the Hamas police forces in Gaza released on Friday Omar Al Ghul, 52, after arresting him for six weeks.Al Ghul was appointed as and advisor to…

The Hamas movement issued a press statement on Saturday stating that the Palestinian security forces of the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah had arrested four members of Hamas movement…

In the Nablus district, in the northern part of the West Bank, security forces arrested for the third time Sheikh Zoheir Lubbada who is suffering from a serious disease and…

Hamas movement reported that the Palestinian Security Forces, loyal to Fateh movement, in the West Bank, continued their arrest campaign against members and supporters of Hamas and arrested eight residents…

Hamas media sources reported on Friday that Palestinian security forces, loyal to Fateh movement in the West Bank, arrested on Thursday five Hamas members in several areas in the West…

Palestinian Legislator of the Hamas movement, previous Minister of Interior, Sa’id Siyam,  stated on Friday that Hamas-controlled security forces in the Gaza Strip arrested a resident who intended to carry…

Hamas media sources reported on Monday that Palestinian Security Forces arrested eight members of the movement on Sunday in several West Bank cities.In Salfit district, security forces arrested Hamza As’ad,…

On 10 January 2008, Palestinian police attacked a peaceful march organized by the Palestinian National and Islamic Factions in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Eyewitnesses reported to Al Mezan…

Sources in the Hamas movement stated on Friday that Palestinian Security Forces, loyal to Fateh movement, in the West Bank, arrested six members of Hamas on Thursday from several West…

Responding to a statement by Lieutenant Ahmad Al Haddar, head of the Palestinian National Security in Bethlehem district, regarding arresting members of the Hamas-formed Executive Force in Bethlehem over the…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns attacks against offices of the Fatah movement and affiliated institutions in Gaza City, as well as attacks against the campus of…

Palestinian sources reported that five Palestinians from the same family were injured on Monday evening when an explosion hit their home located in Gaza city. Medical sources reported that five…

A gunman opened fire on Tuesday midday inside the ministry of education building in the northern west Bank city of Nablus. The man reportedly wanted to register for the public…

At least one Palestinian security officer was wounded on Tuesday morning during renewed Hamas-Fatah clashes that took place near the Karni commercial crossing, in the north east of the Gaza…

Palestinian sources in the Gaza strip reported that two Palestinians were killed in two separate incidents of infighting on Monday. Ahmad Abu Odah, 20, was shot and killed by unknown…

A video of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston has appeared on the internet. The video shows Johnston alive and well.In the first pictures seen since his abduction in Gaza on…

Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist captured in the Gaza Strip over two months ago, is alive and well and could be freed ‘very, very soon,’ a Palestinian government spokesman said…

At least one Palestinian has been killed and fifteen injured during clashes between the Palestinian security forces and fighters associated with the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of the Fateh…

Cairo proposed Friday hosting representatives of the rival Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, over cementing their mid-May ceasefire and reaching a common ground on the ceasefire with Israel. The Egyptian…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and his Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya of Hamas agreed Wednesday to a joint force to fix a Hamas-Fatah ceasefire, reached last week, said Abbas’s…

Palestinian sources reported that a senior leader of the Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, was announced dead on Tuesday after succumbing to wounds sustained during last week’s…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Monday that two Palestinians had died from wounds sustained during earlier internal clashes between Fateh and Hamas gunmen in the Gaza…

Representatives and employees of the Palestinian private sector held a protest on Sunday directed against the current round of infighting in the Gaza Strip.The protesters, who gathered in front of…

For the first time in a week, the fifth Hamas-Fatah ceasefire saw no violations Sunday, a spokesman says. Abdel Hakim Awad, Fatah’s spokesman in Gaza told reporters that the Egyptian-mediated…

Palestinian presidential sources denied Sunday Israeli media reports that claimed that the Palestinian Authority (PA) has involved in U.S-led efforts to boost security services loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas. Nabil…

The leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) held in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza…

Minister of Information and official spokesperson of the Unity Government, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, confirmed on Saturday that all gunmen started to withdraw from the streets of the Gaza Strip, and…

Both rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas agreed on Saturday afternoon to a new ceasefire, following Egyptian mediation. The new agreement stipulated withdrawal of the side’s gunmen from streets and…

Palestinian sources reported on Friday that gunmen opened fire at a development society in the Northern Mountain area, in the northern west Bank city of Nablus.The gunmen fired several rounds…

Palestinian Information Minister, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi called for the immediate release of Abdul-Salam Abu Askar, a local reporter who was abducted in Gaza on Friday evening.Barghouthi repeated his calls for…

Abu Obaida, spokesperson of the Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, denied on Thursday any plan to target the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas when he return to the…

The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) issued a press release on the fifty-ninth anniversary of the Nakba and called on the end of all clashes between Fateh and Hamas gunmen in…

Khalid Jaradat, one of the leaders of the Islamic Jihad, appealed on Thursday the leaders, members and supporters of Fateh and Hamas movements to stop the daily bloody clashes in…

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…

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Palestinian Minister of Information and spokesperson of the National Unity Government Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi called upon all Palestinian and Arab media outlets to refrain from over reporting and magnifying the…

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One Palestinian civilian was reported dead on Thursday midday due to wounds he sustained on Wednesday’s Hamas Fatah infighting in Gaza.Medical sources identified the man as Kareem Abu Meghasib, 24…

Palestinian Information Minister, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, slammed on Wednesday that attacks carried by gunmen against Palestinian ambulances in the Gaza Strip, and stated that one medic of the Palestinian Medical…

Dr. Sameeh Abu Zakia, director of the Palestinian Children Arts Center and an activist in the rights of children, called on all Palestinian political, educational, health and civil institutions to…

Palestinian Information Minister, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, rejected on Tuesday all attacks against reporters and called for the release of journalists surrounded by gunmen in a building in Gaza, and the…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ordered all Fatah loyalists to withdraw from the streets after clashes between the two main rival parties, Hamas and Fatah continued in the Gaza Strip despite…

Palestinian sources have reported the arrival of seven new dead bodies to several hospitals as the clashes in the Gaza Strip intensify. The number of people killed on Wednesday now…

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…

Five Palestinians were killed on Wednesday morning as the internal clashes renewed between rival Palestinian factions. In the meantime the Israeli army shelled several areas in the Gaza strip.The internal…

My pen is bleeding, my hand is shaking, my heart is sighing and my mind is stuffed with the bitter experiences of the past 14 months. The latest is today’s…

…and so street fight returned to Gaza, and the indications of the war which we warned of for so long has returned to the streets… as if the internal clashed…

Tuesday, one of the bloodiest in the Gaza Strip as internal clashes between Hamas and Fateh gunmen left 17 dead, and at least sixty injured. The clashes continued throughout Tuesday…

Palestinian medical sources reported Tuesday that ten more people were killed and at least 20 others were wounded during renewed Hamas-Fatah clashes. Clashes flared up today after a Hamas gunman…

Eight presidential guards’ officers were killed near Al Mintar in northern Gaza Tuesday morning during the continuous clashes between the presidential guards and Al Qassam members, the armed wing of…

Palestinian medical sources reported that two were injured during clashes between the two revel parties Fatah and Hamas in Gaza city on Tuesday. The sources stated that the two sustained…

A Hamas gunman was killed and five others wounded in renewed shootouts in Gaza, despite deployment of the security forces and agreement on a ceasefire late on Monday. Media sources…

Palestinian Minister of Information and the official spokesperson of the Unity Government, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, stated on Monday at night that president Mahmoud Abbas met with government representatives and informed…

After the violent clashes resumed in the Gaza Strip, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) demanded Hamas and Fateh movements to end the internal clashes and return…

Taiseer Khalid, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, stated on Monday that…

Media Office of the Popular Committees in Palestine slammed on Monday the renewed violent clashes between gunmen of Hamas and Fateh, and stated that these clashes and all sorts of…

Palestinian interior minister, Hani Al-Qawasmi, resigned Monday from his post after a series of deadly infighting between the rival Hamas and Fatah parties in Gaza. Palestinian interior minister, Hani Al-Qawasmi,…

Two Palestinians were killed on Monday morning, just few hours after both Fatah and Hamas agreed last night to a ceasefire and halt of all provocative actions in streets. An…

Palestinian Minister of Interior, Hani Qawasmi, suspended his pending resignation on Sunday and said that he will resume his duties in order to implement the agreement between President Mahmoud Abbas,…

Internal clashes in the Gaza Strip had escalated leaving more Palestinians killed and injured as gunmen of Hamas and Fateh exchanged fire in several areas. Hamas stated in an official…

Once again, the Palestinian journalists fall victims of the security lapses across the Gaza Strip. Today Sunday13, May 2007, fellow Suleiman Al-Ashi of the Palestine Daily Newspaper, 25 year-old, has…

Palestinian media sources reported Sunday afternoon that two more people were killed and 11 others were wounded, bringing to four today’s death toll due to Hamas-Fatah clashes.Wafa News Agency reported…

Two Fatah members were killed on Sunday in Gaza after being shot dead by unknown assailants.Fatah has accused Hamas of committing the killing. Eyewitnesses said that gunmen opened fire at…

Palestinian interior minister, Hani aL-Qawasmi, suspended Sunday his resignation and announced implementation of his long-waited security plan, aimed at restoring order to the unruly coastal region. Khaled Abu Helal, spokesman…

Office of the Palestinian Prime Minister, said Saturday that the Hamas’s military wing Ezziledin Alqassam, returned back three police vehicles, they seized earlier. The office added the cars were handed…

Just few hours after the Palestinian security forces have been deployed across streets of Gaza early on Thursday, in a bid to restore order, a group of the Hamas-linked executive…

Palestinian Authority’s (PA) forces began Thursday deployment throughout the streets of Gaza upon orders by President Mahmoud Abbas, higher commander of the Palestinian security forces. Joint forces, comprised of those…

‘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…

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) continued its meetings with leaders of security devices in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, in an…

Masked gunmen attacked Wednesday afternoon the premises of the Palestinian Telecommunications company (PALTEL) in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis. Palestinian medical sources said that unknown gunmen opened…

Palestinian medical sources reported that one civilian was shot and injured by unknown gunmen in down town Gaza city and another one was roped on Wednesday midday. Mohamed Barbakh sustained…

Nine Palestinian civilians were injured in the southern Gaza strip city of Rafah during a family fight on Wednesday. Palestinian medical sources reported that a fight broke out between two…

An Islamist group in Gaza claimed Wednesday its responsibility for the abduction of BBC reporter Alan Jhonston, who has been taken hostage in Gaza for the past several weeks. The…