Gaza, Gaza Strip News

Islamic Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, stepped up a crackdown against members and supporters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party there, a source said on Thursday.

Palestinian workers will need one year to clear a half million tons of concrete rubble from Gaza Strip districts bombed and bulldozed by Israeli forces during their winter offensive, the United Nations said on Thursday.

The Beersheba District Court convicted Fatma al-Zaq, a resident of the Gaza Strip, of attempted murder after she was found guilty of helping her niece plot a suicide attack in Israel , and agreeing to carry one out herself.

Mubarak said that an Israeli soldier captured by Gaza-based militants more than three years ago is in good health and that he hoped he would soon be freed The Middle East peace process cannot handle another failure, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned yesterday, telling his Israeli counterpart his country would have to make "difficult ...

GAZA CITY, 8 July 2009 - Summer Games organized by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees at 152 camp locations throughout the Gaza Strip are helping many children get over the trauma of the 23-day Israeli offensive which ended on 18 January 2009.

Their new roof is made of cloth. Four years after being evacuated from their Gaza Strip homes, several evicted families moved into tents in recent days.

The United Nations team charged with examining whether Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in the Gaza Strip during their war earlier this year has nearly concluded its probe, but says it is too early to determine a final verdict.

CAIRO: An Israeli soldier captured by Gaza-based militants more than three years ago is in good health, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Tuesday, adding that he hoped he would soon be freed.

A UN human rights investigator on Thursday called Israel's seizure of a ship carrying relief aid for the Gaza Strip "unlawful" and said its blockade of the territory constituted a "continuing crime against humanity". Israeli authorities on Tuesday intercepted the vessel, which was also carrying 21 pro-Palestinian activists, and said it would not be ...

Bahraini officials made an unprecedented visit to Israel to collect five Bahrainis detained trying to enter the Gaza Strip to deliver aid, local media reported Saturday.

Lord Bingham, who retired last year as a senior law lord, said the aircraft could follow other weapons considered "so cruel as to be beyond the pale of human tolerance" in being consigned to the history books.

About 100 U.S. activists arrived in Egypt Sunday on their way to Gaza, hoping to deliver medical aid, trucks and support for lifting a 2-year old Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the territory.

Israel is deporting a former U.S. congresswoman, a Nobel peace prize laureate and other activists who were arrested trying to break the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip, a government spokeswoman said Monday.

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Thursday, June 25, 2009 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org Boat with 33 international human rights activists is acting on Obama's call for medical ...

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has called for the release of anti-war campaigner Mairead Maguire from Israeli custody.

A Gaza man was indicted Sunday in the Beersheba Magistrate's Court on suspicion of undergoing terrorist training and planning to set up a cell to carry out attacks inside Israel.

Israel's defense minister said Sunday he hopes to reach a "wider understanding" on regional peace when he meets Washington's Mideast envoy this week, but gave no indication the sides have resolved a dispute over settlement construction in the West Bank.

Rape, incest and sexual assault are some of the biggest taboos in the West Bank and Gaza Strip .

British nationals have told Sky News they are being held in "atrocious conditions" in an Israeli prison after their boat was seized as they tried to take aid in to the Gaza Strip.

A UN human rights mission on Sunday listened as witnesses described in gruesome detail the Israeli shelling of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip during a three-week offensive at the turn of the year.