The illegal Zionist entity shuts down the Gaza Strip’s border crossing that hosts most imports into the Tel Aviv-besieged territory as a punitive measure against alleged launches of “incendiary balloons” from the Palestinian enclave towards the occupied territories. The Karam Abu Salem Crossing was closed on Tuesday after at least …
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On World Refugee Day, Palestinians try to scrape by in Gaza
On the United Nations’ World Refugee Day on Saturday, Marwan Kuwaik, a 70-year-old Palestinian in Gaza, will be focused on trying to eke out a living by selling snack food on the street. The June 20 event this year is aimed at reminding the world that everyone, including refugees, can …
Read More »Palestinians report first death in Gaza
A woman has died in Gaza Strip after contracting coronavirus, the Palestinian enclave’s first fatality from the global pandemic, the health ministry said. It said the 77-year-old woman had suffered from a prior chronic illness and had traveled to Gaza through neighboring Egypt on May 19. She had been quarantined …
Read More »Palestinians in besieged Gaza mark International Quds Day
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are marking International Quds Day by holding various events. Resistance groups have held a press conference to draw attention to the Palestinian cause and slam the normalization of ties between some Arab countries and the Israeli regime.
Read More »Gaza Strip Runs Out of COVID-19 Test Kits, Fueling Fears of Health Sector Collapse
Palestinian health officials have been forced to halt COVID-19 novel coronavirus testing in the Gaza Strip after the area health ministry’s test kit stocks ran dry earlier this week. “Testing at our central laboratory has stopped, after coronavirus test kits completely ran out,” Ashraf al-Qidra, a spokesman for the Hamas-run …
Read More »Israel bombs Gaza for second day after submitting to truce
Israel has carried out fresh air raids on the Gaza Strip in violation of a ceasefire that ended a flare-up marked by dozens of Palestinians killed in bombings and hundreds of rockets launched at Israeli cities. The Al Aqsa TV channel said Israeli warplanes hit an outpost belonging to Hamas …
Read More »Israeli airstrike kills members of family in Gaza
During the early hours of Thursday, an Israeli airstrike hit a residential area in central Gaza Strip. The attack claimed the lives of members of the same family, including women and children, while they were sleeping in their home. Neighbors rushed to the scene following the attack to help save …
Read More »Gaza death toll reaches 23 in second day of escalation
Israeli airstrikes killed 13 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, medical officials said, raising the Palestinian death toll to 23 over a two-day escalation in violence since Israel launched strikes to kill an Islamic Jihad commander. From early morning Gaza militants fired rockets into Israel and the Israeli military struck from …
Read More »Israel kills Islamic Jihad cmdr., prompts retaliatory rocket fire from Gaza
Israel has killed a senior commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip, sparking a barrage of retaliatory rocket fire from the besieged enclave into the occupied territories. In a statement, the Islamic Jihad’s military wing, Al-Quds Brigades, confirmed the death of its commander, …
Read More »Israeli troops kill man in Gaza protests: Palestinian health ministry
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian during protests along the fortified Gaza-Israel border on Friday, the Palestinian health ministry said. They named the dead as Saher Othman, 20, and said 52 others were wounded during the often violent demonstrations, 27 of them by live fire. A spokeswoman for the Israeli …
Read More »Israel jets conduct fresh airstrikes against Gaza Strip
Israeli warplanes have conducted fresh airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, shortly after Israeli troops attacked and injured dozens of Palestinians during anti-occupation protests near the fence separating the coastal sliver from the occupied territories. According to a statement by the Israeli military, Israeli fighter jets struck on Friday two …
Read More »Israeli troops kill Palestinian at Gaza border protest
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian on Friday afternoon during weekly protests along the border with Israel, Gaza health officials said. Thousands of Palestinian gathered along the frontier, and the Israeli army said some in the crowd hurled explosive devices and grenades toward the border fence separating Gaza from …
Read More »Israeli naval forces arrest two Palestinian fishermen off Gaza coast
Israeli naval forces have arrested two fishermen after opening fire on a Palestinian fishing boat off the coast of the besieged Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Information Center reported that the attack took place in the southern Gaza Strip area of Rafah on Saturday morning. The fishermen aboard the boats were …
Read More »Israeli forces wound dozens of Gazan protesters
Israeli forces have opened fire on Palestinian protesters gathering near the fence between the besieged Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied territories, leaving dozens of people injured. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesman for the Gazan Health Ministry, said on Friday that 33 protesters had been injured by live fire during the “Great …
Read More »Israel kills Hamas member in Gaza; Palestinians vow revenge.
The Israeli military says its troops have opened fire at two members of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement near the besieged Gaza Strip’s fence, killing one of them. According to a military statement, Israeli troops observed the two armed men approaching the fence separating the Hamas-run enclave and the occupied …
Read More »Palestinians launch general strike in Gaza Strip in protest at US-led Bahrain conference
Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip have launched a general strike in rejection of the US-led conference in Bahrain, which would seek to advance the economic aspects of President Donald Trump’s controversial proposal for “peace” between the Israeli regime and Palestinians, dubbed “the deal of the century.” On Tuesday, people …
Read More »Nearly 50 Palestinians wounded in ‘Catastrophe’ anniversary protests on Gaza-Israel border
Israeli troops wounded nearly 50 Palestinians at the Gaza border on Wednesday during protests to mark the 71st anniversary of the “Nakba”, or catastrophe, when many Palestinians lost their homes in the fighting around Israel’s creation, Gaza officials said. Thousands had gathered at the coastal enclave’s frontier with Israel, the …
Read More »Trump threatens Gazan people ‘more misery’ if ‘Palestinian acts against Israel’ continue.
US President Donald Trump has expressed his full support for Israel after another escalation in the conflict when Gaza Islamic Jihadist launched hundreds of rockets and IDF responded with massive air strikes. “These terrorist acts against Israel will bring you nothing but more misery,” Trump tweeted, advising the Gazan people …
Read More »Israeli jets, soldiers kill 4 Palestinians in Gaza Strip
Two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air raid on the Gaza Strip shortly after Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinian protesters taking part in the weekly “Great March of Return” rallies, leaving two of them dead and at least 50 others injured. Palestinian sources confirmed on Friday that Israeli aircraft …
Read More »Israeli warplanes strike Gaza again, prompt retaliatory rocket launch
Israeli warplanes have carried out a wave of airstrikes against Gaza, promoting two retaliatory rocket launches from the blockaded enclave towards the Israeli-occupied territories. The Israeli military said its fighter jets targeted several positions of the Hamas resistance movement in the northern part of the coastal strip in response to …
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