Gaza Strip

Hamas is critical of the Goldstone commission's report on alleged war crimes in Gaza, but will nonetheless accept its recommendations and investigate charges that militant groups violated the rules...

The Arab League is currently intensifying its efforts to prosecute the Israelis who committed war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and a delegation from the League's General...

Quds Press correspondent reported that "Miles of Smiles" convoy was eventually able to enter Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing. The convoy's trucks, which exceeded one hundred, entered Gaza...

An Israeli Human Rights report stated that: "Israeli army killed more than 1,500 Palestinian citizens, since the beginning of 2009, mostly during the last war in the Gaza Strip,...

The number of Palestinians who have died as a result of the Israeli siege on Gaza has passed 360, a statement released by the health ministry of the deposed...

Egyptian authorities raided three tunnels and seized a large number of goods in the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning, Egyptian security forces said. Egyptian forces said they raided the...

Bedouin gunmen ambushed an Egyptian patrol that had seized contraband cement destined for the Gaza Strip, triggering an hours-long standoff in the desert that left one officer and five...

The Israel Broadcasting Authority claimed today (Tuesday, 10 November) that several key European leaders support Israel's military campaigns against the Palestinians. The authority disclosed that French President Nicola Sarkozy,...

The Israeli occupation authorities released, on Sunday, Nov. 15, one of its longest serving prisoners, Younis Hussein, 45 years, from the Gaza Strip, after serving a 22-years sentence. Hundreds...

In the days leading up to Eid al-Adha, Zaid Khadar would usually be buying new clothes for his children and stocking up on traditional foods to celebrate one of...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Despite the Egyptian government's persistence in building the subterranean steel barrier along its border with the Gaza Strip aimed at sealing off the system of tunnels vital...

Sources in the West Bank and Gaza have confirmed that six Palestinian men in their early twenties were killed this morning by Israeli occupation forces. Three of the killings...

After three weeks of gruelling travelling the international convoy Viva Palestina is expected to arrive in the Jordanian capital Amman today 22 December. The convoy led by the British...

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has denounced the continuation of the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip. The Israeli...

A UN agency has warned of the danger of the collapse of the underground water system in the Gaza Strip. In a report, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)...

Free Gaza activists are being prevented by the Egyptian authorities from travelling to El-Arish, from where they had hoped to go to Gaza through the Rafah crossing on the...

The president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars has said that the steel wall being built by the Egyptian authorities along their border with the Gaza Strip is...

Palestinian MP Jamal Al-Khodari has called on the international community, human rights institutions and civil society to look upon the first anniversary of the Israeli war on the Gaza...

Several Israeli bulldozers and tanks stormed, Monday (December 21) morning, into the Gaza Strip – near the Martyrs' Cemetery, east of Jabalaya town, in the north of the Gaza...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The ongoing Israeli occupation and the classification by the Israeli government of Islamic places of worship as "Israeli heritage sites" brought Palestinians onto the streets of the...

Israeli Occupation forces advanced – Wednesday, April 7 – into the Martyrs' Cemetery, located to the east of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, and started bulldozing agricultural lands...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESPalestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday inaugurated the first Palestine Festival for Children at the University College of Applied Sciences in Gaza city. A large number of...

Sama: Gaza / Ramallah An opinion poll conducted by the 'Sama' News Agency on its website revealed that the majority of Palestinians support a proposal to dissolve the Palestinian...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES According to Raed Fattouh, Chairman of the Coordination Committee for the entry of goods into the Gaza Strip, Israel has recently agreed to allow a limited range...

As the start of indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority approaches, sources inside occupied Palestine have confirmed that two mosques have been attacked in the past 24...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Tuesday night, Israeli F-16 fighter jets bombed and destroyed a metal workshop and a sports club in the Gaza Strip along with several other locations they...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESPalestinians continue to work in the tunnels on the Rafah border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Essential goods, food, drink and medical supplies continue to be tranported...

On October 11, Hamas leader Khalid Mish'al gave a televised speech and said:  "In the name of God, praise be to God, prayers and peace upon the messenger of God,...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESThe Miles of Smiles Convoy to Gaza arrived in the Strip through the Rafah border crossing with a number of convoy participants riding pneumatic bicycles lending a very...

A senior member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has blamed the Israeli government for the collapse of the peace process. Saeb Erekat, who, as...

The Palestinian police in Gaza have revealed that one of the suspects in the murder of the Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni is a Jordanian national. The Hamas-run authorities in...