Rafah, Palestinian Territory News

Why I want to march in Gaza Pam Rasmussen, The Electronic Intifada, 23 December 2009 Peace and justice activists will soon travel to Gaza to show their support for Palestinians under siege On 29 December, I will attempt to cross into the Gaza Strip along with 1,300 other peace and justice activists from 43 countries.

BEIRUT: It was a typically cold London day in January earlier this year when, in front of thousands of people demonstrating against the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, British MP George Galloway announced a convoy of aid would be travelling from London to Gaza under the banner "Viva Palestina." Almost a year later and after two successful ...

As Karen Abu Zayd approaches the end of her mandate as UNRWA commissioner-general, she talks to Dina Ezzat about a lifetime's commitment to fighting injustice Later this month, Karen Abu Zayd will end her mandate as commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency , which looks after the destiny of over four million Palestinian ...

APART from Joe Sacco, the world hasn't got another full-time graphic novelist war correspondent.

Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a number of different occasions in recent days at Egyptian construction workers building a steel fence meant to separate Egypt from the Gaza Strip, Egyptian media reported on Thursday.

A picture taken from the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah shows heavy machinery at work on the Egyptian side of the border on December 10 Trucks filled with contraband trundle along on a road leading to Egypt's frontier with the besieged Gaza Strip.

Reports that Egypt is building a steel underground wall along its border with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip have fueled speculation about what exactly Cairo intends to accomplish with the project, which British newspapers claim is being carried out with the help of the US Army Corps of Engineers.

The immediate objective is obvious: to severely disrupt the flourishing smuggling trade carried out in an extensive subterranean network of tunnels under the border. The smugglers provide everything from food to weapons for Gazans, who are largely cut off from the outside world due to an Israeli blockade.

Boom in illicit trade in motorbikes, dismantled in Egypt and smuggled into Gaza, brings deadly consequences Tunnels in Gaza being dug to provide a smuggling route from Egypt.

Tens of thousands of Hamas supporters thronged downtown Gaza City Monday to mark the 22nd anniversary of the group's founding, in a massive display that showed the Islamic militants still enjoy broad support despite years of rule that have led to war, poverty and isolation.

Hamas militants carry portraits of the Islamic Resistance Movement's late founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin during an anti-Israel rally in the refugee camp of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday.

Early in the second intifada, Karen Koning AbuZayd, then the newly appointed deputy commissioner general of UNRWA traveled to Rafah, in Gaza, to observe firsthand the situation of Palestinian refugees whose houses had been razed by bulldozers of the Israel Defense Forces.

Egyptian earth-moving machinery was at work on the Gaza Strip border on Wednesday and an Israeli newspaper said a project was under way to build a subterranean metal wall to block Palestinian smuggling tunnels.

CAIRO: A team of French doctors have performed medical check-ups on captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in the Gaza Strip, the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat reported on Sunday.

A Hamas source on Sunday denied an earlier Al-Hayat report that a four-person French medical team arrived in Gaza last week to check on the condition of captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, Israel Radio reported.

Bradford has waved off a mercy convoy carrying about A 250,000 of medical supplies to war-torn Gaza.

" British Member of Parliament George Galloway is planning a third charity convoy to the Gaza Strip, in cooperation with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, following the success of his first two convoys.

Gaza, : Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory - 19-24 Nov.

Palestinians run after a cow, one day before Eid al-Adha in Rafah in southern Gaza, November 26, 2009, Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha to mark the end of the haj by slaughtering sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command.

A Palestinian woman holds on to barbed wire as she and other pilgrims from Gaza wait to pass through the Rafah border crossing to Egypt for the upcoming Eid al-Adha festival, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.

Hamas won't remain idle "in the face of a Zionist escalation" in the Gaza Strip.