Gaza Blockade

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Richard Falk warned on Wednesday of an impending disaster in the Gaza Strip as a result of...

On Tuesday, the Palestinian civil defence crew in Gaza found on old cannon in the sea near Zawayda in central Gaza Strip that is believed to date back to...

Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, has told cabinet ministers that the president of the Palestinian Authority benefits too much from the current negotiations, making him "incapable of signing a historic...

Senior member of Hamas political bureau Mousa Abu-Marzouk warned on Friday "any new Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip will not be similar to previous attacks." Posting on his...

A delegation from the Islamic Resistance Movement, led by its political bureau head Khaled Meshaal, has arrived in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur for an official visit. The Hamas...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Independent Palestinian MP Jamal Al-Khoudary has ignited a symbolic flame to break the siege of the Gaza Strip. The head of the Popular Committee against the Siege...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES About 200 Palestinian and foreign activists launched a protest flotilla in the Gaza Sea on Monday, sending a message to the world about the continuing Israeli siege...

On 1 November, Gaza's only power plant, which normally provides around 30 per cent of the Gaza Strip's electricity supply, ran out of fuel. For the past month, Gaza's...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Two young people from Gaza have won the first prizes in the photography and film categories of a competition run jointly by the United Nations Relief and...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES The University College of Applied Sciences in the Gaza Strip has opened an exhibition of Palestinian antiquities and heritage, including embroidery and pottery as well as famous...

Israel and the Netherlands are at loggerheads after Israel turned down a request to install a new security scanner donated by the Netherlands at the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem...

The chairman of Israel's Labour Party, Isaac Herzog, has praised Egypt's Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi for pressuring the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas by imposing a stricter siege...

A senior Hamas official in Gaza has confirmed that the government has no political contact with the coup regime in Cairo due to the latter's belief that the Islamic...

The European court of auditors has criticised the EU for continuing to pay the salaries of Palestinian Authority employees in the Gaza Strip who have not worked for 6...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES An unparalleled winter storm has left hundreds of families in Gaza homeless. Local sources have told the Palestine Information Centre that hundreds of homes have been flooded...

The Hamas-led Government in the Gaza Strip has confirmed the Strip has sustained nearly $ 64 million in losses following the winter storm that had hit the Strip and...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES After the extreme storm wave that caused much damage in the Gaza Strip started to recede, besieged fishermen were finally able to catch abundant amounts of sardine...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) fired 96 Palestinian engineers in the Gaza Strip, citing the effects of the siege of the coastal enclave imposed...

Ignoring a UN demand, Israel's Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon has refused to allow construction and other raw materials to enter the besieged Gaza Strip, Maariv reported on Wednesday. The...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Reports have been received that Israel has bombed Meghazi Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip. According to local medical sources, a three-year old Palestinian girl was...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES The Federation of Public Transportation Sector (FPTS) in the Gaza Strip called on Wednesday for the UN and human rights organisations to put more pressure on the...

Saffa News has published details of a "confidential document" which reveals that the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah offered to sell Egypt the fuel donated by Qatar to operate Gaza's...

The latest Miles of Smiles aid convoy has arrived in the Gaza Strip after passing through the Rafah Border Crossing. The news was released by the Committee Against the...

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki has confirmed that US Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to meet on Sunday with several Arab foreign ministers in Paris, in an...

The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah is refusing to increase the amount of fuel sent to the besieged Gaza Strip. A spokesman for the owners of oil companies in Gaza,...

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has attributed Gaza's survival during the two massive Israeli wars of aggression and the strict Israeli siege to the "wise governing management, legendary persistence...

Israeli F16 warplanes launched overnight four airstrikes along the Gaza Strip that wounded four children and one woman. Dozens were reportedly traumatised. A spokesperson of the Palestinian Ministry of...

The Islamic resistance movement Hamas has condemned statements attributed to Egyptian security officials and diplomats about plans to topple its rule in the Gaza Strip. The movement issued a...

The Egyptian army has announced the expansion of its military operations in the Sinai Peninsula, saying that the results are satisfactory but that it will continue until it achieves...

The Egyptian army has confiscated fuel which was supposed to go to the Gaza Strip. A local activist said that the fuel was being stored in a field ready...

The United Nations Special Human Rights Rapporteur in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, yesterday stressed the need to urgently and wholly implement the findings of the Goldstone report...

American diplomats have ruled out reaching a prospective framework agreement between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Israeli occupation based on American proposals. The diplomats, who preferred to speak...