Israeli Siege

The Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip has called on the Egyptian authorities to provide greater support for the territory's electricity supply, which is still in crisis. Government spokesman...

Haaretz newspaper in Israel has expressed surprise at the new arrangements in place to facilitate international travel for Palestinians leaving Gaza through the Rafah crossing into Egypt. Reports suggest...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, gave a warm welcome on Friday to a South African solidarity delegation, led by Waleed al-Sa'di from Durban. The...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) is preparing for its 31st graduation ceremony; this year's theme is "creativity and distinction". Students from different faculties at the university,...

Hundreds of Palestinians gathered on Thursday morning in the Port of Gaza to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the Israeli naval attack against the Freedom Flotilla led by the...

A catastrophic situation is likely in Gaza due to a lack of more than 200 essential drugs, a senior official in Gaza's Ministry of Health has warned. Ashraf Al-Qudra,...

The stifling Israeli-led blockade on the Gaza Strip, coupled with the non-implementation of Egypt-Gaza fuel import agreements, has led to a fresh fuel crisis in the besieged territory. According...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The tenth international Miles of Smiles convoy arrived in the Gaza Strip earlier this week. 114 internationals, many of them women, from several countries crossed into the...

The Arab Affairs Committee of the People's Assembly in Cairo has recommended making a legal study of the crossings between Egypt and Gaza and how they operate. The purpose...

An economic expert has expressed his appreciation at the movement of construction materials to the Gaza Strip from Egypt. "It ushers in the reopening the commercial crossing with Egypt...

Israel's interim Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Sunday rejected an initiative by his Defence Minister, Ehud Barack, to apologise to Turkey over the killing of nine Turkish citizens aboard...

The Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine – Hamas – denounced on Sunday the American call on Turkish Prime Minister Recpep Tayyip Erdogan to postpone his visit to the Gaza...

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 Hamas government in Gaza has congratulated Turkey for the apology it received from Israel over the killings on the Freedom Flotilla in 2010. It is, said the Islamic...

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...

Israeli gunships opened their automatic machine guns on the Palestinian fishermen along the Gaza coast in the early morning of Monday. Witnesses said that the shooting towards the Palestinian...

The Israeli authorities announced on Tuesday that it would return the allowed fishing area off the coast of Gaza to what was agreed upon within the context of last...

Three rounds of discussions over the amount of compensation to be paid for the victims of Israel's assault on the 2010 Freedom Flotilla have not resolved the issue, media...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Peace Club for the Disabled in Gaza have recently implemented new projects funded by UNDP international donors and other organisations including a project to convert wheelchairs...

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has made contact with Russia's Foreign Minister. The leader of the government in Gaza spoke to Sergey Lavrov in a phone call on Wednesday...

Red Cross described Israeli siege as "collective punishment" of Gaza's civilian population as a violation of the Geneva Conventions, calling on Israel to lift it. The International Committee of...

Turkey's Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has stated that the apology made by Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, over Israel's attack on the...

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that he is planning to visit the Gaza Strip "soon". The Turkish Anatolia news agency reported that Erdogan hasn't announced...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pointed out that Israel has not fulfilled the promise made when it offered a formal apology to his country for the 2010 attack on the...

Deputy Turkish Prime Minister Poland Areng has condemned the demand of US Secretary of State John Kerry that Recep Tayyip Erdogan postpone his visit to the Gaza Strip planned...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is to launch a primary investigation into Israel's murderous attack on the humanitarian Freedom Flotilla in May 2010. The convoy of ships was in...

Egypt's President Morsi might join Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his visit to the Gaza Strip later this month. The claim has been made by Turkish writer...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS During a visit to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Finnish foreign minister, Erkki Tuomioja, discussed the humanitarian issues facing the Sector and promised a $1.5m increase in...

Under normal circumstances, when one country apologises to another it usually passes without comment. When the country doing the apologising is Israel people sit up and take notice. Israel...