GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: Small amounts of Israeli fuel were trucked into the Gaza Strip on Friday, slightly easing an energy crisis provoked by a cut-off of Egyptian fuel, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.
The shipment however did not meet (...)
GAZA CITY: Israeli airstrikes killed three Palestinians including a schoolboy in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, officials said, while Gaza rocket squads fired salvos into southern Israel, deepening the worst round of violence between the sides in more (...)
GAZA CITY: Darting down the bumpy streets of Gaza wearing a cheap pair of sneakers, Palestinian runner Bahaa Al-Farra dodges potholes and traffic as he trains to compete against the world's best athletes at the London Olympics.
Although an (...)
RAMALLAH: After months of wavering, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has taken a decisive step toward reconciliation with the Islamic militant group Hamas, a move Israel promptly warned would close the door to any future peace talks.
In a deal (...)
HERZLIYA: UN chief Ban Ki-moon has warned that time is running out for a Mideast peace deal and urged Israel to make goodwill gestures, including easing its blockade of Gaza, to help lure the Palestinians back to negotiations.
Ban on Thursday (...)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli aircraft fired missiles at militant facilities in the Gaza Strip early Friday, killing a Palestinian civilian and wounding 25 other people, Gaza officials said, as a new round of violence in the area threatened (...)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP): Palestinian security officials say a car carrying three people has exploded near a public garden in Gaza City.
The officials say ambulances are on the way to the site of the blast but had no further details. They spoke (...)
CAIRO: The long-estranged leaders of the two rival Palestinian political movements said Thursday they significantly narrowed differences and opened a new page in relations in reconciliation talks in Cairo.
Despite the upbeat tone, it remained (...)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: An Egyptian official said Tuesday that Israel has agreed to briefly delay expanding its military operations in the Gaza Strip to give Egypt time to try to persuade Palestinian militant factions to halt rocket fire on southern (...)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The release of an Israeli soldier by Hamas as part of a prisoner exchange with Israel is reshaping complex regional ties, mostly in favor of Gaza's once isolated Islamic militant rulers.
The swap, mediated by Egypt, has (...)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: The release of an Israeli soldier by Hamas as part of a prisoner exchange with Israel is reshaping complex regional ties, mostly in favor of Gaza's once isolated Islamic militant rulers.
The swap, mediated by Egypt, has (...)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Hamas militant group released an Israeli soldier Tuesday more than five years after his capture, turning him over to Egyptian mediators in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
The deal, the most lopsided (...)
RAMALLAH: Some Palestinians criticized Hamas on Thursday for conceding too much in its deal to swap a captured Israeli soldier for more than a thousand Palestinian inmates.
Much of the criticism has come from officials who are loyal to Fatah, (...)
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Some Palestinians criticized Hamas on Thursday for conceding too much in its deal to swap a captured Israeli soldier for more than a thousand Palestinian inmates.
Much of the criticism has come from officials who are loyal (...)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian travelers say dozens of angry Gazans attempted to storm a crossing at the Egyptian border but were pushed back.
The commotion came just a week after Egypt permanently reopened the crossing and lifted (...)
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — After four years, Egypt has permanently opened the Gaza Strip's main gateway to the outside world.
The move to lift most travel restrictions on Gaza residents brings long-awaited relief to the territory's Palestinian (...)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP): Luxury cars with Libyan plates are becoming a common sight in the Gaza Strip, a surprising side-effect of the unrest in the north African country.
Most of the cars in Hamas-ruled Gaza — an impoverished territory (...)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: Rival Palestinian groups said they reached an agreement Wednesday on reuniting their governments in the West Bank and Gaza after years of bitter infighting that weakened them politically and caused the deaths of hundreds in (...)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza's Hamas government said Monday it was searching for three suspects in last week's killing of an Italian activist.
Hamas has been conducting a manhunt since the death of Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian activist who (...)
GAZA CITY: The body of an Italian activist was found hanged in a Gaza apartment just hours after he was abducted by an Al-Qaeda-inspired group, Hamas said early Friday, in the first kidnapping of a foreigner since Hamas overran the coastal strip (...)
GAZA CITY: Thousands of Palestinians thronged major squares in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on Tuesday to deliver an impassioned appeal to their leaders to end the long-running feud that has divided the Palestinian people between two rival (...)
RAFAH: A rare euphoric mood is sweeping through the Gaza Strip, where people are hoping the downfall of Hosni Mubarak will give the coastal territory a chance to get out from under an Israeli-Egyptian blockade that has stifled the (...)
BUREIJ REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip: A Hamas insurgent who escaped from an Egyptian prison and sneaked back to Gaza though a smuggling tunnel received a hero's welcome Sunday by the Palestinian Islamist movement.
Egypt arrested Ayman Nofal in the (...)
GAZA CITY: Israeli aircraft bombed three Gaza tunnels, killing two Palestinians and wounding a third, Hamas security officials said Sunday.
Two more Palestinians were missing following the late Saturday airstrikes, which the Israeli military said (...)
GAZA CITY: Israel's interception of a flotilla trying to break the blockade of Gaza has been a boon to Hamas and vastly improved prospects of at least easing the 3-year-old closure of the territory.
Before Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound (...)