Gaza City (dpa) – Gaza’s only power plant has stopped producing electricity due to a severe fuel shortage, cutting off “major and vital” supplies to the strip, its Energy and Natural Resources Authority announced Tuesday. “Now that the power station has stopped, we won’t be able to fulfill the needs of hospitals as well as [...]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – The Israeli military said Friday that its aircraft had bombed six targets in the Gaza Strip overnight, in response to rocket fire targeting the south of the country. There were no reports of Palestinian fatalities. The military’s statement described the targets as two weapons storage facilities in the northern Gaza Strip, [...]
Gaza City (dpa) – Palestinian protesters threw shoes and chairs at the convoy of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as it entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday, witnesses at the scene told dpa. Several dozen family members of Palestinian prisoners waited for Ban on the Palestinian side of the Erez crossing with Israel, north of [...]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Palestinian militants launched rockets and Israel fired “warning shots” at targets in northern Gaza, ahead of a visit to the coastal enclave by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday. Ban was scheduled to arrive in Gaza in the late morning, after meeting officials in Jerusalem and the West Bank city [...]
CAIRO: A peaceful demonstration in the Gaza Strip buffer zone that began around 10:30 on Tuesday morning devolved into chaos when 50 rounds of live ammunition was fired directly at Palestinian and international solidarity activists, according to a press release from the Palestinian International Solidarity Movement activist group. The live ammunition and a few tear [...]
Gaza City (dpa) – Two Palestinians were killed and three seriously injured on Wednesday when Israel raided an area north-east of Gaza City, said Gaza emergency services chief Adham Abu Salmeyeh. The five men were riding a donkey cart near the border with Israel, witnesses said. They said they heard a loud explosion. An Israeli [...]
Ankara (dpa) – Turkey urged the Palestinian factions to reconcile after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks Sunday with Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the militant Hamas group in Gaza. The call for Hamas to close ranks with the rival Fatah party came just before the Palestinians were due to hold their first direct meeting [...]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israeli aircraft attacked a Palestinian militant cell in the northern Gaza Strip Friday morning, as the group was preparing to launch rockets at southern Israel, a military spokeswoman in Tel Aviv said. Unconfirmed reports from the Gaza Strip said one person was killed in the strike, and five injured. The group [...]
Gaza/Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israeli Air Force jets bombed two targets in the Gaza Strip overnight, in response to several rockets fired into southern Israel, the military said Thursday. The strikes hit a site used by Palestinian militants in central Gaza and a tunnel dug by militants in the north of the coastal enclave, it [...]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – The Israeli air force attacked a vehicle in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing its driver, the Gaza emergency services said. The victim was a member of the extremist Palestinian organization Islamic Jihad, the emergency services added. The explosion reportedly also injured four passers-by. Islamic Jihad is one of several [...]
CAIRO: Gaza is to get zero emissions schools after the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) unveiled the plan last week to boost education and increase environmental awareness in the small Palestinian enclave. According to UNRWA, the new schools will rely entirely on renewable energy and will be used as new education facilities for [...]
Gaza (dpa) – Hamas Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh left Sunday on a tour of several Muslim countries, his first since his militant Islamist movement seized control of the coastal enclave in June 2007. Haniyeh will visit Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Bahrain and Turkey, his aide Yousef Rizqah said in a statement. The aim is to garner [...]
Gaza (dpa) – Paving the way for possible membership of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Hamas on Thursday joined a committee aimed at reforming the umbrella organization of Palestinian groups. “Hamas has become part of the temporary committee that will from now prepare reforming the PLO, until general elections are held,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoom [...]
The United Nations relief agency for Palestinian refugees said this week it has formed a partnership with a renowned architect to build 20 environmentally-friendly schools in the Gaza Strip. The blueprint for the “environmental zero impact” schools to be built by UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) [...]
CAIRO: Palestinians are on the move these days. September, October and November has seen drastic developments towards changing the conditions of life for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. September witnessed a bid to the United Nation for Palestinian statehood at the hand of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. Likewise, October saw Gaza-based Hamas [...]
CAIRO: Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon Saturday slammed newly re-found Palestinian unity, saying that a Fatah-Hamas unity government would “turn the Palestinian Authority into a terror entity.” “Such a move will deal a debilitating blow to the changes of reaching a settlement,” he said, adding that the foreign ministry is looking into the possibility [...]
CAIRO: Mohamed Saad al-Katatny, the head of Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) warned Israel on Wednesday from attacking the Gaza Strip, saying it will push for “unwanted results.” The FJP, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, denounced in a statement released on Wednesday that the recent Israeli announcement about an eminent attack on [...]
CAIRO: In yet another early morning airstrike on Gaza, rockets injured two people in Gaza City early Wednesday. West of the city, an Israeli warplane struck a group of militants, injuring one man. In the neighborhood of Tuffah, Israeli F16 jets fired at least one missile injuring one woman lightly. Several civil homes were also [...]
CAIRO: “The recent escalation and loss of life – as well as the disruption of the southern residents’ daily routine – will eventually make it necessary for the army to launch a major offensive in Gaza,” IDF chief Benny Gantz told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday. Referring to last week’s bloody fighting between [...]
CAIRO: A naval police building was struck by Israeli rockets early Monday morning in Gaza. The hit left one Palestinian police officer in his twenties killed and four others wounded, one seriously. According to Israeli news media, the airstrike also knocked out electrical power for more than 100,000 people in Gaza. Eyewitnesses in Gaza said [...]
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