Gaza

Gaza: Foreign staff can freely travel at Beit Hanoun crossing

Sunday-2-April-2017

The Palestinian interior ministry in the Gaza Strip allowed as of March 31 all foreign UN and Red Cross employees and officials to freely enter and leave the Strip through the Beit Hanoun (Erez) border crossing.

Haneyya: Fuqaha’s killers will not escape punishment

Sunday-2-April-2017

Deputy head of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haneyya has said that the killers of martyr Mazen Fuqaha will never escape retribution from Allah first and then from the Palestinian people and their resistance sooner or later.

Gaza Interior Ministry to take strict measures against agents

Saturday-1-April-2017

Palestinian Interior and National Security Ministry in Gaza announced on Saturday its intention to pursue tightened security measures against traitors and spies working for Israel in the coming hours and days.

Bedouin traditional ceremony to mark Land Day in Khan Younis

Saturday-1-April-2017

On the tunes of Bedouin traditional songs the horses began to knock on the dusty ground with their hooves announcing the start of the celebration organized by al-Tarabin tribe near the Israeli military site Kissufim on the eastern borders of al-Qarara area to the northeast of Khan Younis province in the southern Gaza Strip.

Gaza: Israeli army intensified drone overflights

Saturday-1-April-2017

The airspace of the Gaza Strip has seen recently intensive Israeli drone overflights raising fears among the population about Israeli intents to commit new crimes.

Protest in Gaza against UNRWA curriculum changes

Wednesday-29-March-2017

The executive office of the Popular Committees and the Supreme Council of Parents in the UNRWA affirmed on Wednesday their absolute rejection of all steps seeking to wipe out the Palestinian national identity through changing the school curricula to be consistent with the Israeli occupation authority's attempts to erase the Palestinian people's identity.

Israeli court retains director of TIKA in Gaza in custody

Tuesday-28-March-2017

The Israeli court of Beersheba decided on Tuesday to continue the detention of the director of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency TIKA in the Gaza Strip Mohammed Murtaja who was arrested on 12th February 2017.

Protest in Gaza demanding immediate release of Halabi

Tuesday-28-March-2017

Dozens of children women and farmers in Gaza called on Tuesday on the local and international institutions to immediately intervene to release Mohammed al-Halabi the director of the World Vision's office in Gaza from Israeli jails.

Algerian society: Egypt okayed humanitarian convoy to Gaza

Tuesday-28-March-2017

The Association of Algerian Muslim Ulama (scholars) announced on Monday starting preparation for sending a humanitarian convoy to the besieged Gaza Strip by the end of April after the Egyptian authorities agreed to let it pass through Rafah border crossing.