Humanitarian Crisis

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESLast night the Children of the beleaguered Gaza strip held a candlelit protest on the streets of a Gaza City plunged into darkness as a result of the...

Egypt's Foreign Minister, Nabil El Arabi, met with Dr Mahmoud Al Zahar and Khalil El Hayyah from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Cairo on Tuesday. They explored ways...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Fuel companies in the Gaza Strip have confirmed that most of the cooking gas filling stations in the territory have closed because of the significant reduction in...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has laid out his most pessimistic image of Syria so far, saying that the humanitarian crisis there is "tragically indescribable". The country...

The Head of the Government Committee for breaking the siege on Gaza, Hamdi Shaath, blamed the Palestinian Authority (PA) for the electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip. Shaath said...

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 Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad is estimated to have killed 10,000 women over the past 30 months, through "bombings, executions and torture". The claim has been made by...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES In front of Palestinians wounded by Israel's repeated attacks on the Gaza Strip, activists called on Wednesday for urgent action to stop Israeli measures against the coastal...

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...

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...

The Action Group for Palestinians in Syria announced on Monday that 1,781 Palestinian refugees have been killed in Syria since the beginning of the uprising there. In a statement,...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has today reported that the Syrian government is blocking deliveries of humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of civilians in the besieged areas of the...

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 leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have decided to form a unified military command for its member states. The decision was made at the council's 34th summit...

Hamas spokesperson Salah Al-Bardaweel has ruled out achieving any immediate breakthrough in efforts at national dialogue. He stressed that no reconciliation could be reached in light of the "absurd"...

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...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Thursday that the Palestinian residents of the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus are experiencing "extreme human...

A Palestinian family of seven who live in the Yarmouk refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus have suffered food poisoning after they were forced by hunger to eat...

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...

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...

Images An Indonesian non-governmental organisation has collected nearly $15 million from Indonesia's poor and rich alike to build the first Indonesian hospital in the Gaza Strip. The hospital, which...

The Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Filippo Grandi, has warned that "the plight of Palestinians and Palestinian refugees under Israeli occupation...

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,...

The study, recently published in the Public Library of Science (PLOS) Journal of Medicine, found that globally, the prevalence of depression was 4.4 per cent, while Afghanistan and the...

Over the last few days, the two tunnels that link the Gaza Strip with the Occupied Territories and span the length of borders, have become well known. A lot...

Syria is facing the risk of a famine for the first time in its modern history. This is the conclusion reached by a study conducted by the United Nations...