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The militant Islamic Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip will announce the results of their internal elections next month, an official said Saturday, ending a monthslong voting process that will define strategy for the group. Hamas insists it will not...
CITY, Gaza Strip – The militant Islamic Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip will announce the results of their internal elections next month, an official said Saturday, ending a monthslong voting process that will define strategy for the group. Hamas insists...
A Palestinian fisherman unloads fish from a boat at the Gaza seaport May 19, 2012. Israeli gunboats and an Egyptian clampdown on fuel smuggling into the enclave are strangling the Gaza Strip's little fishing fleet, slowly turning a generation of... View Photo »
Report: Hamas admits for first time losing more than 600 men in Gaza war.
Delisle moves from the practicalities of settling in, shopping for groceries and taking the kids to the playground to the less ordinary areas that Israeli existence offers, taking trips to settlements and Pales tinian colleges, and wrangling with the...
Bank since the creation of the Palestinian Authority in 1994. Israel first imposed a blockade on Gaza in June 2006 after militants there snatched one of its soldiers. It was tightened a year later after the Islamist Hamas movement seized power, ousting...
A Palestinian cleans a fishing net next to a cat at the Gaza seaport May 19, 2012. Israeli gunboats and an Egyptian clampdown on fuel smuggling into the enclave are strangling the Gaza Strip's little fishing fleet, slowly turning a generation of... View Photo »
recently conducted an analysis of what would happen to the home front in a war ... The analysis was based on missile attacks against Israel during the First Gulf War in 1990-91, the Second Lebanon War in 2006 and Operation Cast lead (against the Gaza Strip) in 2009, as well as on the type of missiles an...
West Bank. Not one Jew lives in Area A. On December 21, 1995, Israeli troops withdrew from Bethlehem and three days later the city came under the complete administration and military control of the Palestinian National Authority in conformance with the...
20 years is over,” Mr. Ayalon said. “It does not work, and it will not work unless we change something.” Under the Blue White Future plan, Jewish settlers would leave voluntarily and military forces would remain pending a final-status deal with the...
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A Palestinian cleans a fishing net next to a cat at the Gaza seaport May 19, 2012. Israeli gunboats and an Egyptian clampdown on fuel smuggling into the enclave are strangling the Gaza Strip's little fishing fleet, slowly turning a generation of fishermen into fishmongers. Picture taken...
View Photo »A Palestinian fisherman smokes as he waits for boats at the Gaza seaport May 19, 2012. Israeli gunboats and an Egyptian clampdown on fuel smuggling into the enclave are strangling the Gaza Strip's little fishing fleet, slowly turning a generation of fishermen into fishmongers. Picture...
View Photo »Blood and holes in the ground are seen near the site of a car explosion at the city of Port Sudan May 22, 2012. One person was killed when a car exploded in the eastern Sudanese city of Port Sudan on Tuesday in what the government said resembled a blast last year that it blamed on an...
View Photo »Palestinians harvest watermelons on a farm in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip May 22, 2012.
View Photo »A Palestinian man wounded by Israeli fire receives medical care at Shifa hospital in Gaza City May 17, 2012. The Israeli army fired into the Gaza Strip on Thursday, injuring seven Palestinians in an incident that broke a relative lull in the coastal enclave, Palestinian and Israeli...
View Photo »Palestinian children hold candles during a rally in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, ahead of Nakba May 14, 2012. On May 15 Palestinians will mark Nakba, or catastrophe, of Israel's founding in a 1948 war, when hundreds of thousands of their brethren fled or were forced to leave...
View Photo »A Palestinian woman, dressed up as a Bedouin, takes part in a rally in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, ahead of Nakba May 14, 2012. On May 15, Palestinians will mark Nakba, or catastrophe, of Israel's founding in a 1948 war, when hundreds of thousands of their brethren fled or...
View Photo »Palestinian farmers collect wheat during the annual harvest season in Rafah, near the Egyptian border, in the southern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2012. The Palestinian economy is experiencing a serious drop in liquid assets that has worsened since last year due to a reduction in aid from...
View Photo »A Palestinian child walks past graffiti during a rally marking the anniversary of the "Nakba", Arabic for catastrophe, at the Nuseirat Refugee Camp, central Gaza Strip, Friday, May 11, 2012. The Nakba commemorations mark the uprooting of Palestinians who fled or were driven out of their...
View Photo »Palestinian children hold a key symbolizing the keys to houses left by Palestinians in 1948, during a rally marking the anniversary of the "Nakba", Arabic for catastrophe, at the Nuseirat Refugee Camp, central Gaza Strip, Friday, May 11, 2012. The Nakba commemorations mark the uprooting...
View Photo »Palestinian Islamic Jihad supporters take part in a rally in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, to show solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails May 11, 2012. Hundreds of Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli jails said on Friday they would shun vitamin...
View Photo »Vincent Fean, British consulate general in Jerusalem, walks with Palestinian Paralympians from the Gaza Strip past Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock mosque during his visit to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site on May 21, 2012, as they celebrate 100 days before the...
View Photo »Palestinian farmers harvest wheat on a farm in Khan Younis on the southern Gaza Strip May 6, 2012.
View Photo »A Palestinian doctor attends to a wounded man at a hospital in Gaza City on May 17, 2012, following Israeli shelling into the Gaza Strip in which seven people were wounded, two of them in critical condition, near the Karni crossing. The Israeli military maintains an exclusion zone...
View Photo »A Palestinian farmer waits for check up at a hospital in Gaza City on May 17, 2012, following Israeli shelling into the Gaza Strip in which seven people were wounded, two of them in critical condition, near the Karni crossing. The Israeli military maintains an exclusion zone inside the...
View Photo »Palestinian medics receive a wounded man for treatment at a hospital in Gaza City on May 17, 2012, following Israeli shelling into the Gaza Strip in which seven people were wounded, two of them in critical condition, near the Karni crossing. The Israeli military maintains an exclusion...
View Photo »Palestinian men gather at the 'Camp of Return' tent to stress the refugees' ties to their ancestral land in the Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on May 15, 2012, as Palestinians and Arab Israelis marked Nakba day, which commemorates the exodus of hundreds of thousands of their kin...
View Photo »Palestinian children light each other's candles as they take part in a candlelight vigil after hearing of an agreement between Israel and Palestinian prisoners currently taking part in a hunger strike, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 14, 2012. A group of Palestinian...
View Photo »Relatives of Palestinian prisoners celebrate after hearing of an agreement between Israel and Palestinian prisoners currently taking part in a hunger strike, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 14, 2012. A group of Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strike...
View Photo »Birgitta Tazelaar (R), head of the Netherlands Representation to the Palestinian Authority, follows a Palestinian woman as she enters her new home, after receving a donation from the Dutch, during a ceremony in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 24, 2012. Palestinians...
View Photo »Founder and president of the leading Egyptian Salafi Islamist Al-Nur party, Emad Abdel Ghafur (L), Arrives to the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 21, 2012 during his first official visit to the Gaza Strip.
View Photo »Palestinians shift through garbage dumped by a UN truck at a municipal dump site in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on April 19, 2012. Palestinians living in poverty search for food and other items they may be able to sell, whilst those working as rubbish collectors earn a daily...
View Photo »A Palestinian artist puts the final touches on a black and white mural painting dedicated to late Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza City on April 14, 2012, as Gazans marked the first anniversary of his murder in the northern Gaza Strip after being kidnapped by a fringe,...
View Photo »A Palestinian truck driver displays a picture of Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni on his windshield in Gaza City as Gazans marked on April 14, 2012 the first anniversary of his murder in the northern Gaza Strip after being kidnapped by a fringe, radical Salafist group. Arrigoni, a...
View Photo »A Palestinian boy holds a picture of Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza City on April 14, 2012, as Gazans marked the first anniversary of his murder in the northern Gaza Strip after being kidnapped by a fringe, radical Salafist group. Arrigoni, a 36-year-old member of the...
View Photo »A Palestinian cleans a fishing net next to a cat at the Gaza seaport May 19, 2012. Israeli gunboats and an Egyptian clampdown on fuel smuggling into the enclave are strangling the Gaza Strip's little fishing fleet, slowly turning a generation of fishermen into fishmongers. Picture taken...
View Photo »Report: Hamas admits for first time losing more than 600 men in Gaza war.
recently conducted an analysis of what would happen to the home front in a war ... The analysis was based on missile attacks against Israel during the First Gulf War in 1990-91, the Second Lebanon War in 2006 and Operation Cast lead (against the Gaza Strip) in 2009, as well as on the type of missiles an...
That ‘baby blood fresh Gaza’ thing? That’s not anti-Israel. That’s plainly anti-Semitic. That’s as vile as anything you’d see in Nazi Germany.
We want to keep the spotlight on him. We need to remember him, especially for what he symbolizes. The fact that he addresses Palestinian unity, [that] he is reaching out to inside [Israel], the Diaspora, West Bank, Gaza, makes him special and it’s also something that inspired us.
Any medicine crisis in Gaza is the fault of Hamas who divert funds to terror. Israel will provide all shipments of medication for Gaza to their destination
Any medicine crisis in Gaza is the fault of Hamas who divert funds to terror. Israel will provide all shipments of medication for Gaza to their destination
more than 100 residents of the Al-Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza were ordered by the Israeli military, who raided the neighborhood then, to stay in one house.
Gaza; the Israeli-controlled West Bank, where it operates underground; Israeli prisons where thousands of Hamas members are held; and exile where most of the top leadership is based.
Intellectuals and writers played a key role in ending apartheid in South Africa; likewise, Arab cultural figures are visiting Gaza this year to show solidarity with Palestinian academics and artists in support for their call to increase the global BDS [Boycott Divestment and Sanctions] campaign against ...
It is clear for Egypt that Israel is trying to push the responsibility about Gaza towards it.
Second, given the devious plots of the Assad regime, the state of Israel and other imperial powers operating in the region, the risk to convoyers crossing Syria would be unacceptably high. However, our objections were overruled, leaving Kia Ora Gaza with no option except to withdraw.
A Palestinian fishing boat was found outside the limits of Gaza's fishing zone and the navy took it to (the southern Israeli port of) Ashdod where the crew will be interrogated
Ross is an unconditional supporter of the Israeli starvation siege of (Gaza), and fully backed Israel's savage (2006) air attacks against civilian targets in Lebanon.
Israelis say this is a security issue. Rockets that are shot from Gaza into Israel should be condemned, as it’s a violation of international law. But I don’t think that the blockade is the right response to protect the Israeli people. The blockade is illegal
The most important thing, in order for the Gazan economy to start again and for people to get out of poverty, is the need to resume exports. The natural markets of the Gaza are the West Bank and Israel, but this is forbidden now
We funded…a missile defence system that recently intercepted those rockets coming out of Gaza…saving homes, schools, hospitals and the men, women and children who inhabit them. The U S. and Israel's top political, defence, and security intelligence officers are engaged in the most consistent, comprehens...
The nation's right to the whole of Palestine is not dead. Palestine is not waiting for the Arab summit or international decisions. The Palestinian nation relies on the guns of fighters in Gaza, in Ramallah and in Bint Jbeil.
We are also concerned at reports that Palestinian Authority security forces have tried to prevent protests in areas under their control, while Hamas security forces have beaten protesters in Gaza. All those involved in policing demonstrations should respect freedom of assembly and must adhere to interna...
News that Israeli forces are firing live ammunition on Land Day demonstrators near the Erez Crossing in Gaza, and that scores have been injured in protests in the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem is extremely worrying, particularly in the light of frequent and persistent use of excessive for...
Hamas won big time ... Six months after being released from Israeli jails, the murderers of our children are celebrating abroad and in Gaza. They're getting married, resuming terror, hosting television shows.
We went to Gaza in 1956 with a number of junior officers and we came under an Israeli attack. We called for rescue, but the Palestinians refused
Like a group of smiling tour guides at a Caribbean resort, legions of pundits and policymakers have been dancing the limbo with Hamas for years, setting the bar lower and lower for what is acceptable. Instead of holding the regime responsible for the well-being of the people of Gaza, most have turned a ...
Hamas (in Gaza) will be more realistic, more moderate after the election
against [Israel], through the force Iran will project toward its clients: Hezbollah in Lebanon, Islamic Jihad in Gaza. And there's also the potential for an existential threat. If they have a bomb, we are the only country in the world that someone calls for its destruction and also builds devices with w...
If it is calm in Israel, it will be calm in Gaza. But the people of Gaza will face hardship as long as terrorists use them as human shields to rain rockets down on Israeli cities.
