Gaza Economy

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Crab fishing on the coast of the Gaza Strip flourishes at this time of year as the crustaceans proliferate and their huge numbers attract the territory's otherwise...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES An Israeli human rights organisation has criticised its government's reduction of the fishing limit for Gaza's fishermen from six to three nautical miles. "This constitutes collective punishment...

The Islamic Resistance Movement has said that Israel's decision to reduce the fishing limit imposed on the Palestinians of Gaza from six nautical miles as agreed as part of...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian fishermen have taken part in a nautical protest against the restrictions placed on them by Israel. Hundreds of fishermen and activists took part in the demonstration...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS Labour Day in the Gaza Strip is unlike in any other place in the world as workers here continue to work today. Yes, they continue to work...

A Palestinian farmer was seriously injured on Monday morning by live Israeli ammunition fired in Khan Younis which located in the east of the Gaza Strip, the Ministry of...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS The Ministry of Agriculture in the Gaza Strip announced the start of the grape season on Tuesday. Palestinians farmers are trying to fulfil the demand for local...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS The repercussions of the revolution in Syria have overshadowed the lives of thousands of Palestinians living in refugee camps in the conflict torn country. Many of these...

Two truckloads of potatoes from the Gaza Strip have been denied entry into Jordan on the grounds that the beleaguered territory "does not produce potatoes". Exporter Samir Zaqout said...

Two months after the military coup in Egypt, the Gaza Strip continues to live through the worst shortages of medical equipment and fuel as well as difficulties on movement...

The Minister of National Economy in the Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip has said that losses in the besieged territory have exceeded $250 million as a result of...

A Palestinian citizen from the Gaza Strip died of a serious illness on Monday night after he was prevented from traveling through the Rafah Crossing between the Gaza Strip...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS After the closure of the Rafah Crossing and the destruction of the tunnels between Gaza and Egypt, the Israeli siege has caused great economic losses that are...

The Minister of National Economy in Gaza's Hamas-led government, Dr Alaa Al-Rafati, has revealed that the economic cost of the destruction of the tunnels between the beleaguered territory and...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Gaza's ministry of agriculture celebrated on Thursday the beginning of the olive harvest season for this year. Minister Ali Al-Tarshawi and staff from the agriculture ministry attended...

The Ministry of Economy in the government of the Gaza Strip said on Sunday that the closure of the tunnels beneath the border with Egypt has caused heavy losses...

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 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...

Members of the Union of Arab Employees of the UN's Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) have gone on general strike in UN-affiliated institutions across the Gaza...

Spokesman of the Egyptian military forces Ahmed Ali has recognized that the US is helping the Egyptian army to destroy the tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Speaking...

A United Nations official said on Thursday that Turkey has agreed to fund fuel purchases that will be used to provide power for emergency services in the Gaza Strip,...

No one, neither inside or outside the occupied territories, would argue over whether or not the Islamic Resistance movement, Hamas, was living through a severe political and economic crisis....

After the Arab-Israeli war in 1948-1949, the Gaza Strip was left under Egyptian military rule until Israel occupied it during the June 1967 "SixDay War". When Egyptian President Anwar...