Gaza siege

Health ministry: Israel prevents entry of anesthetic gas into Gaza

Tuesday-7-February-2017

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation authorities deliberately prevented passage of nitrous gas which is used as an anesthetic for the third time in one month.

Turkish delegation arrives in Gaza to discuss power crisis

Sunday-5-February-2017

A Turkish delegation arrived in Gaza on Sunday via Beit Hanoun crossing to discuss the power crisis plaguing the besieged enclave for years.

Khudari: Restrictions on the entry of products paralyze economy

Tuesday-31-January-2017

MP Jamal al-Khudari head of the Popular Committee against the Siege said that Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) increases the list of products banned from entering the besieged Gaza Strip on a semi-daily basis.

Popular Int’l Committee hails rapprochement between Egypt and Gaza

Saturday-28-January-2017

The Popular International Committee for Supporting Gaza has welcomed the recent rapprochement between Egypt and the Gaza Strip and the renewed opening of the Rafah border crossing for several days.

A martyr who foiled Israeli intelligence plots

Tuesday-24-January-2017

Some might accept spying for the enemy under certain conditions but this very notion does not exist in Ahmed Shubair’s dictionary.

European campaign to launch events in Europe in protest at Gaza Siege

Monday-23-January-2017

The European Campaign to Lift the Siege on Gaza launched a series of events in a number of European capitals and big cities in protest at the continuation of the Israeli siege on Gaza in coincidence with its 12th anniversary.

Khudari: Gaza reconstruction slow 60% of homes still damaged

Sunday-22-January-2017

Jamal al-Khudari head of the Popular Committee against the Siege said that Gaza reconstruction process is very slow revealing that 60% of the Palestinian homes damaged in the Israeli 2014 offensive on Gaza Strip are still in ruins and that 60000 Palestinians are still homeless.

Khudari: Quarter of a million unemployed person in Gaza

Tuesday-17-January-2017

Palestinian MP Jamal al-Khudari said that the number of the unemployed persons in Gaza reached a quarter of a million due to the tightening measures of the Israeli siege.

Memo to UNSC over tragic fallouts of Israeli siege on Gaza

Monday-16-January-2017

A memorandum was handed over to the UN Security Council (UNSC) by the International Commission to Support the Rights of the Palestinian People (Hashd) to push for lifting the Israeli siege on Gaza.

Committee: Gaza siege must end in 2017

Thursday-5-January-2017

Dozens of Palestinians participated on Thursday in a rally organized by the popular committee against the Gaza siege which aims at appealing to the international community to break the siege on the coastal enclave in 2017.