Gaza Tunnels

The military wing of the ruling Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) claimed on Sunday that it was responsible for the tunnel uncovered by Israel last week. The so-called "Khan Younis...

PHOTOS To mark the second anniversary of the prisoners swap reached between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation in 2011, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh delivered a speech...

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip criticised the UN position towards the tunnel that was discovered last week between Gaza and Israel....

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...

Israel's channel 10 has quoted a senior Israeli officer of the Southern Command as saying that "the Israeli army has failed miserably against the Hamas tunnels which the movement...

Izzat al-Reshiq, a member of the Hamas political bureau welcomed remarks by the Qatar Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin-Hamad al-Thani, who stressed continuous support for the Palestinian cause. Al-Resheq reiterated...

The Ministry of Health in Gaza has warned of a "health catastrophe" in the beleaguered territory due to the ongoing Israeli-led blockade. Top of the crisis list is the...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES James Rowley, the UN's Coordinator of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian Territories, visited Gaza this week and is warning that the Strip is currently facing an urgent...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Miles of Smiles Convoy 23 has arrived in the Gaza Strip, with solidarity activists from around the world entering the besieged territory, including some from Algeria, Libya,...

The Ministry of Local Government in the besieged Gaza Strip has warned of a health catastrophe if the current shortage of fuel is allowed to continue. Aside from the...

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...

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 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...

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...

In cooperation with Egypt's Military Engineering Unit, Egyptian border forces have destroyed ten tunnels between the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip, according to Egyptian security sources. In addition,...

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 is working to create a buffer zone on the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip in a purported effort to undermine weapon smuggling and chaos caused...

Hundreds of residents of the Egyptian town of Rafah took to the streets on Sunday morning in protest at the army's intention to create a buffer zone along the...

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...

In what is being billed as a "national security operation", the Egyptian army is busy demolishing tunnels underneath the border with the Gaza Strip. Bulldozers are also demolishing buildings...

Former Egyptian Electricity Minister Osama Kamal has appeared happy on a local Egyptian television network, rejoicing: "We succeeded in closing the only electricity plant in Gaza." Speaking to a...

Fierce clashes erupted on Tuesday morning between Egyptian army forces and Egyptian Bedouins in the Sinai Peninsula along the border with the Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses reported. The witnesses...

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...

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...

Egypt's ambassador to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, Yasser Othman, has said that the common goals and interests between Cairo and Hamas are much bigger than any disagreements the...

Intelligence sources have revealed that the US Corps of Engineers has given a $10 million contract to Raytheon Technologies Company to detect the tunnels underneath the Egypt-Palestine border. The...

This week, the pop star Rihanna played a gig in Tel Aviv, despite many requests made to her by Palestinian and solidarity activists to observe the cultural boycott of...

Exactly a year has passed since Operation Pillar of Cloud, or defence as it has since been rebranded as, ended. The operation's stated goal was to deter the rockets...

If media leaks about Egypt's generals informing the Israeli government about the coup three days before it was executed are true, then the matter is more than a coup...

Israel announced on Sunday that it has discovered a tunnel under its border with the Gaza Strip. The end of the tunnel is about 300m inside occupied Palestine. Israeli...

Israel imposed a stifling blockade on the Gaza Strip after the success of the Islamic Resistance Movement in the 2006 Palestinian elections; its grip was tightened in the summer...

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...