Gaza, Gaza Strip News Archives

Israeli soldiers speak with Palestinians after Jewish settlers scuffled with Palestinians in the West Bank village of Burin, near Nablus.

Regardless of any peace talks or intentions Obama may have, the United States has still done nothing to stop Israeli colonization of Palestinian territory.

Two Kansas City men are teaming up to help children of the Israeli-Gaza Strip area.

Venezuela plans to open an embassy in Palestinian territories and upgrade its ties to ambassadorial level, President Hugo Chavez said on Friday, to support Palestinians in their struggle against Israel.

TEL AVIV, 22 October 2009 - Some 838 students formally offered places and/or enrolled at foreign universities are unable to leave Gaza, according to the Palestinian interior ministry and Gisha , an NGO campaigning for freedom of movement.

The crisis due to the lack of cooking gas in Gaza Strip is threatening Gazan's daily life, especially during the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha holiday.

The aid convoy of Qatar Charity entering Gaza. DOHA: Qatar Charity's convoy of 18 trucks laden with of books and stationery worth QR10m reached Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

On Thursday, federal regulators approved a request to add Al Jazeera English to the list of satellite services eligible to be distributed in Canada.

The UK is now in the grip of festive fever as the nation prepares for the customary annual binge called Christmas.

Palestinian militants on Thursday fired five mortars into Israel's northwest Negev region.

Vast crowds of pilgrims cast stones at walls representing the devil on the third day of the annual hajj on Friday as Muslims around the world began celebrating Eid al-Adha, the most important holiday of the Islamic calendar.

Photo by BGNES An Israeli air strike wounded four Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Friday morning, according to the Israeli military and Palestinian medical workers.

Hundreds of Palestinian children in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip marked the United Nations' Universal Children's Day on Friday, calling for attention to their conditions and protection of their rights.

At Gaza Zoo, The Wild Things Return by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro November 24, 2009 Almost a year after Israel's offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, the coastal enclave is still struggling to recover.

Gaza, Nov 24 At least two Palestinians died and another four were wounded in recent Israeli air raids against underground tunnels in Gaza Strip.

Eds: APNewsNow. By DIAA HADID Associated Press Writer GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip A senior Hamas official says prisoner swap talks with Israel have hit a snag over some of the top militants the Islamic group wants freed.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 ISTANBUL: Israel wants to improve and strengthen ties with key Muslim ally Turkey that have soured over the Jewish state's offensive in the Gaza Strip, Israel's trade minister said on Monday.

In this Sunday Aug.15, 2004 file photo, Israeli soldiers are seen inside an Israeli military outpost along the Philadelphi corridor in the southern Gaza Strip, near the Egyptian border.

"In two days' time, I won't have any bread to sell," Abed the baker tells me grimly as he hands over my dozen pitta breads.

Officials with the consignment for Gaza schools. DOHA: A consignment of books and stationery will arrive in the Gaza Strip over the coming days with support from Qatar Charity.

Militants in the Gaza Strip fired a Qassam rocket into southern Israel on Monday, despite a recent declaration by Hamas that militant groups in the coastal territory had reached an agreement to halt cross-border rocket fire.

Israel and Hamas appear to be moving closer to a prisoner swap in which Israel would release up to 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

A Hamas official who asked not to be quoted told the Monitor on Monday that Israel and Hamas would probably reach a deal by week's end. One of the Gaza newspapers closest to Hamas, al-Risala, reported that the swap was being delayed by disagreement over just one prisoner. Later in the day the family of Marwan Barghouti - a popular West Bank Fatah leader held by Israel since 2002 - claimed he would be released as part of the deal.

On Sunday Israel allowed 550 calves to be brought into Gaza for the Muslim Eid Al-Adha holiday when it is traditional for sheep and calves to be slaughtered.

Israel should end the blockade of Gaza, cease evictions and demolitions of Palestinian homes, and ensure that the rights of children are respected and that all allegations of torture and ill-treatment are promptly investigated and perpetrators prosecuted, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in an annual report released today.

I believe it is Egypt that is blockading the Gaza-Egypt border. But according t o this AFP photo caption , reprinted on Andrew's blog, it is Israel that is responsible for Egypt's border with Gaza: Palestinians smuggle sheep into the Gaza Strip through a tunnel under the Egypt-Gaza border in Rafah on November 15, 2009.

Today The Rory Peck Trust announced that the third annual Martin Adler Prize is being given jointly to three Gaza freelancers who have played a significant role in getting news stories out of their country.

On Tuesday, the day Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slipped while climbing into a sea commando's rubber dinghy, he also made several interesting statements.

Palestinian officials announced Friday that a new date for parliamentary and presidential elections will be set next month now that President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone the January vote, though the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers maintain they will boycott the voting.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip a " Hamas announced Saturday evening that it has reached an agreement with other militant groups in Gaza to stop firing rockets at southern Israeli towns to prevent retaliatory attacks.Hamas has mostly refrained from firing rockets since January when Israel ended a three week offensive in Gaza aimed at stopping almost daily ...

Commenting on the raid, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday 'we strongly condemn these criminal acts, either in Gaza or the West Bank.

TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Despite a Hamas crackdown, Al Qaida continues to grow in the Gaza Strip.

Palestinians shout slogans and wave their national flag as they attend a rally commemorating the fifth anniversary of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's death in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Nov.

Following Ynet's report of the death of Samir al-Nadim, a 25-year-old heart patient who died after being transferred from Gaza to Nablus for surgery, officials in the Coordination and Liaison Authority in Gaza said that they intend to probe the incident.

Peace talks with Israel have failed and the Palestinians must launch popular and diplomatic campaigns to achieve statehood, Marwan Barghouti said in an interview from his prison cell.

Palestinian construction workers are seen at a large apartment building complex being built in the East Jerusalem settlement of Gilo yesterday Israel and Hamas reacted cautiously yesterday to reports a deal to exchange hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held in the Gaza Strip might be concluded by the end of this month.

An Israeli judge made an historic ruling last week when he decided that an Arab teenager needed a oeprotectiona from the justice system and ordered that he not be convicted despite being found guilty of throwing stones at a police car during a protest against Israela s attack last winter on Gaza.

Jerusalem, Nov. 17 : The inflow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip has gone up by approximately 900 percent in 12 months, the IDF has said.

Hamas rejected Monday a Palestinian suggestion to seek UN Security Council support for unilaterally declaring a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The Palestinians asked the European Union on Monday to back their plan to have the U.N. Security Council recognize an independent Palestinian state without Israeli consent.

IMEMC & Agencies: Palestinian medical sources reported Sunday that a farmer was wounded by Israeli fire east of Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Palestinians dance during a rally in the village of Beit Furik near the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday on the occasion of the anniversary of the symbolic November 15, 1988 declaration of independence by the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat The Palestinians said yesterday they plan to ask for UN recognition of their independence, amid ...

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In a clinic in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, Ratib Samur makes his way from one patient to the next armed with little more than a small box filled with enraged bees.

Hamas on Saturday claimed IDF reports that the group had test-fired long-range rockets were an Israeli attempt to justify a new military operation in the Gaza Strip, DPA reported.

Bashar al-Assad snubs Israeli talks offer; 'United States should do more to resolve conflict in the Middle East' Saturday, November 14, 2009 PARIS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Friday that an Israeli call to renew peace talks was mere 'word play' and the United States should be doing more to resolve conflict in the Middle East.

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has warned that Israel is planning another offensive on the Gaza Strip, Iran's Press TV reported on Friday.

" Wafa Sarhan was devastated to think her two sons would never hear her voice again after an Israeli strike on Gaza left them deaf.

The Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers of detaining dozens of its members on Tuesday to stop them marking the 5th anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat.

Playing in Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip, in rubble left after Israels January military offensive.

Voter registration for the upcoming Palestinian election failed to get under way as scheduled on Tuesday, adding to signs that President Mahmoud Abbas might be bluffing about a make-or-break vote in January.

"I can offer you a discount on the headbands," said Tareq Abu Dayyeh, souvenir-store owner.

The Gaza Strip-ruling Hamas authorities on Monday banned the holding of a conference for the International Federation of Journalists in Gaza, organizers said.

Israel is briefly easing its tight blockade of the Gaza Strip to ship in thousands of cattle ahead of a major Muslim holiday, Israeli and Palestinian officials said on Monday.

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday kicked off an open debate on the Goldstone report which accused both Israel and Hamas militants of war crimes during the 22-day Gaza conflict.

It is the British empire of the dead.Scattered across 150 countries and managed from a modest office building near London's Heathrow Airport, a global patchwork of graveyards constitutes a beautiful memorial to the ugliest carnage: the 1.7 million fighting men and women who died for Britain and its dominions in the world wars of the last ...

While Israel is being pressured to form a stance in regards to an investigation into last winter's military operation in Gaza , the Israel Defense Forces is thoroughly investigating criminal aspects in its fighters' conduct.

It is still hard for Nada Joma'a, a 14-year-old girl from the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza City, to forget the time when an Israeli missile destroyed her house, killed her mother and cut her leg during the 22-day Israeli air raid on the Gaza Strip that ended on Jan.

A jihadist group suspected of having links to al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for a fumbled rocket attack against Israel from South Lebanon on Oct.

General Assembly President Ali Treki today urged Israel and the Palestinians to heed the body's call to conduct credible investigations into charges that both sides were guilty of serious human rights violations during the conflict in the Gaza Strip at the start of the year.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip: Hamas said Friday it is allowing Muslims to leave the Gaza Strip on the annual pilgrimage to Mecca after blocking them last year because of a Palestinian political dispute.

OSLO: Norwegian prosecutors announced on Friday they would not pursue war crimes charges against Israeli officials, including former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, over the Gaza Strip offensive.

Australia has voted against the endorsement by the UN General Assembly of what has become known as the Goldstone Report.

The US is desperate to stop relations between Israel and the Palestinians worsening, writes Con Coughlin .

WASHINGTON a ' Shortly after his report accusing Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, Judge Richard Goldstone took part Thursday night in a debate with former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Dore Gold, in which he argued that statements made by Israeli politicians and military officials were proof ...

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Thursday he will not seek re-election as he voiced frustration with the US position on Israeli settlements and delivered a major blow to Washington's Middle East peace efforts.

The Beersheba District Court sentenced 41-year-old Nihad Aqra, who in 2002 planted an explosive device that killed three IDF soldiers, to three consecutive life terms.

By Judith Sudilovsky Source: Published: JERUSALEM - A student from a Catholic-run university in the West Bank was detained and deported to her home in the Gaza Strip two months before completing her studies.

Swine flu has not reached Gaza yet but with 1.5 million residents squeezed into 360 square kilometers it would appear to be a small miracle.

Smoke rises after an Israeli air force attack a target in the Gaza Strip on January 14, 2009, in Gaza City, Gaza Strip.

Israeli naval commandos seized a ship Wednesday that defense officials said was carrying more than 60 tons of missiles, rockets and anti-tank weapons from Iran to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

From the roof of an abandoned five-storey building behind the massive stage, the view of thousands of Islamic Jihad supporters - " around 40,000 - " gathered in Khatiba Square in central Gaza City after Friday prayers was impressive.

A Gaza boy looks up from entrance of smuggling tunnel on Palestinian side of Rafah border.

Head of the Military Intelligence Directorate, Major-General Amos Yadlin, told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday that Hamas has held a successful trial launch of a rocket with a 60 km range.

Arab U.N. delegates circulated a draft resolution on Monday that would require Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to bring a U.N. report alleging war crimes in the Gaza Strip before the Security Council.

A team of UAE Red Crescent Authority for prevention and control deafness will launch a curative and surgical programme in the Gaza Strip.

In a post on her blog, the Rosemary's Baby star reveals there are over 800 tunnels along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt - and one collapsed on Sunday as aid workers were bringing in supplies.

A Palestinian girl sits on a suitcase next to a bus bound for Egypt at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday.

House resolution calls the findings 'irredeemably biased' Source: washingtonpost.com The House of Representatives next Tuesday will likely pass a nonbinding resolution condemning the controversial UN Goldstone Report on alleged Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip that has become a major complication in Secretary Hillary Clinton's diplomacy in the ...

Monday, November 02, 2009 JOHANNESBURG: The Goldstone report on last winter's Gaza war has become something of a fixture in the media since its publication in September.

An Israeli army artillery battery fires into the Gaza Strip from the border on Tuesday.