Palestine

The Euro-mid Observer for Human Rights issued a press release on Monday expressing "great concern regarding the 'knock on the roof' practice, in which Israeli forces fire a light...

Israeli officials yesterday renewed their calls for cutting food and electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip as a punitive measure against Hamas and the area's residents. Israel's Deputy Defence...

As world powers watch the slaughter of Gaza's besieged population in deathly silence, ordinary people are shocked at the levels of barbarity displayed by Israel. Gruesome and grotesque to...

The United States announced yesterday that it does not believe the military operations launched by Israel on the Gaza Strip amount to "war crimes", Anadolu news agency reported. White...

There are no concrete military outcomes for what is happening in Gaza. Israel has not eliminated Hamas nor has it obliterated any other resistance forces or liberation movements that...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement has announced that it rejects a ceasefire with Israel prior to reaching a truce agreement. However, Hamas confirmed that it had not "thus far"...

Israel is in shock after a drone was launched by Izzaddin Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, on Monday morning. The drone flew from Gaza towards Israel. Yediouth...

Palestinian Minister of Public Works and Housing Mofeed Al-Hasayneh revealed that the number of Palestinian homes completely destroyed by Israeli strikes since the start of the current assault is...

Is political scheming alone enough to turn individuals who have spent most of their lives chanting against the Zionists into pseudo-Likudniks gnawing at the body of the Palestinian resistance?...

The only channel of communication between the Egyptian authorities and Hamas, Dr Mousa Abu Marzouk, has been active in shuttle diplomacy over the past few days, nudged by the...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has offered to broker a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas on the 2012 understanding, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported. The newspaper quoted a...

UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl visited an UNRWA school today, following an Israeli strike that targeted a nearby police station. Yesterday, the Israeli authorities had denied permission for UNRWA Commissioner-General...

There have been many times when oppressed people resisting their oppressors gain international solidarity for their cause as public opinion sways in their favour. They embody bravery as they...

At 9pm on Saturday, Palestinians in Hebron and other West Bank towns took to the roofs to watch what Hamas's military wing promised would be a missile attack on...

Saudi Arabian King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz has donated $53.3 million to the victims of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, the official Saudi news agency reported yesterday evening....

The secretary general of the Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad, Ramadan Shallah, said on Sunday that the Israeli occupation is heading to Hell through its continued war on the Gaza...

Hamas' military wing, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades announced yesterday that one of its rockets has hit the Israeli Sdot Micha Airbase in Ashdod, believed to be a rocket launch...

Several sectors of the Israeli economy are suffering as a result of the on-going Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, as Palestinians respond to Israeli lethal strikes by launching...

Hamas' military wing Al-Qassam Brigades announced this morning that it launched several unmanned drones into the Israeli skies. In a statement the group said the planes, loaded with explosives,...

Hamas fighters announced on Monday morning that they had compelled a unit of Israeli Special Forces to retreat overnight along the eastern borders of Deir Al-Balah city, in the...

You would be forgiven for thinking that the latest Israeli offensive on the Gaza strip is an unfortunate necessity for the Zionist state; that Hamas holds full responsibility for...

In my role as an editor over at The Electronic Intifada, I deal with comments submitted from readers, moderating them as they come in. Over the last couple of...

The East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shufat lays in rubble, its residents still in a state of shock after the murder of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, and the clashes that...

After his pathetic remarks concerning the Gaza Strip, it's hard to see how Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas could ever regain the confidence and trust of his countrymen. His...

Hamas has decided to rule Egypt out as a negotiator for a ceasefire, a senior source of the Islamic movement told the Middle East Eye. He said that from...

At least 18 civilians were killed and more than 50 were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house and adjacent mosque during the evening prayers on Saturday. This...

Turkish prime minister and presidential hopeful Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey's relations with Israel will not return to their normal status so long as Israel continues its aggression...

Three million Israelis spent Saturday evening in panic in anticipation of a strike by Hamas, which threatened to fire rockets at the Tel Aviv metropolitan area in response to...

Clashes broke out Saturday night across the occupied West Bank between the Israeli army and angry Palestinians protesting against Israel's offensive against the Gaza Strip, Anadolu news agency has...

Egyptian authorities have barred a European medical delegation from reaching the embattled Gaza Strip to deliver aid, Anadolu news agency reported. According to the delegation's coordinator Abdeen Fayez, Egyptian...

The Hamas response to Israel's deadly airstrikes on Gaza demonstrates the movement's success in developing its military prowess despite the siege, a military analyst has said. Egypt's Major-General Adel...

A report on Israel's Channel 2 has said that the Israeli government is seeking a long-term ceasefire over Gaza and is minded to accept a Qatari initiative to calm...