AL-MUHARARA: Dozens of coffee shops and tiny eateries have popped up along this stretch of Gaza's southern coastline which was once a popular swimming beach for the Jewish settlers of Gush Katif.
Once upon a time, this beach and the surrounding (...)
GAZA CITY: The construction of a new underground wall and recent border clashes have frayed relations between Hamas and Egypt and could threaten the Islamist movement s main lifeline in Gaza, analysts say.
Since Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007 (...)
GAZA CITY: The Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Sunday marked one year since the start of the deadliest-ever offensive waged by Israel on the isolated enclave, swathes of which still remain in ruins.
Sirens were to wail throughout the Palestinian (...)
GAZA CITY: Tens of thousands of Hamas supporters waving green banners gathered in Gaza City on Monday to mark the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the Islamist group that rules the coastal strip.
Black-clad Hamas police had earlier sealed off (...)
GAZA CITY: Three Palestinian brothers were killed and nine other people were wounded on Tuesday when Israel bombed smuggling tunnels between the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and Egypt, medics said.
Rescue services were digging through the rubble to try (...)
GAZA CITY: Tensions rose in the Gaza Strip on Friday after renewed clashes between the ruling Hamas movement and president Mahmud Abbas s Fatah party left five people dead in less than 24 hours.
A Fatah loyalist, a Hamas member and a teenager (...)
Agence France-Presse GAZA CITY: Israel pressed on with its bloody offensive against Gaza on Friday, a day after reoccupying land and waging multiple air strikes in the deadliest 24 hours in the Palestinian territories for four years. Three (...)
Agence France-Presse GAZA CITY: Israeli troops staged their first ground operation in the Gaza Strip Tuesday since pulling out of the territory last year, killing three Islamic Jihad militants and a Palestinian policeman. Three other militants were (...)