CAIRO/GAZA: The Muslim Brotherhood aims to open the Egyptian border with Gaza to commerce, a shift that would transform life for Palestinians there but which is hitting resistance from Egyptian authorities reluctant to change a longstanding (...)
GAZA/CAIRO: Egypt will let more fuel into Gaza and increase the amount of electricity it supplies to the Palestinian enclave, Palestinian and Egyptian officials said on Tuesday, a move to ease a power crisis that has embarrassed the ruling Hamas (...)
GAZA/JERUSALEM: Violence flared up between Israel and Gaza, with the Israeli air force killing three Palestinians and insurgents firing rockets deep across the border.
The latest fighting erupted on Thursday when an air strike on a car killed two (...)
GAZA: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood visited the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip for the first time on Saturday, signaling a shift in Cairo's posture toward the Palestinian Islamists since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak.
A delegation led by deputy (...)
GAZA: "Cinema in Gaza is like writing on rocks with your fingers," says Palestinian writer-director Sweilem Al-Absi.
It's not just the dearth of funds, equipment and studio facilities that prompts such laments from film-makers in the Gaza Strip. (...)
GAZA: Islamist group Hamas stopped travelers from crossing into Egypt on Sunday in a row with Egyptian authorities over restrictions at the Rafah border that have dented Palestinians' hopes of ending Gaza's isolation.
Egypt eased border access (...)
GAZA: Gaza's Hamas rulers said on Wednesday that Egypt was limiting the number of people allowed to enter from Gaza, undermining a move announced last week to ease the blockade of the enclave imposed by Israel.
Cairo expanded the opening hours of (...)
RAFAH, Gaza Strip: Egypt eased travel restrictions for residents of Gaza on Saturday, eroding a blockade of the Palestinian territory imposed by Israel to isolate its Islamist Hamas rulers.
Egypt, which made peace with Israel in 1979 but whose (...)
Five thousand years of fascinating history lie beneath the sands of the Gaza Strip, from blinded biblical hero Samson to British general Allenby.
The flat, sandy lands on the Mediterranean's southeastern shore have been ruled by Ancient (...)
GAZA: Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers signalled on Sunday they were looking to end a flare-up in violence that began four days ago with a missile attack on an Israeli school bus and has claimed the lives of 19 Palestinians.
The fighting (...)
GAZA: Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip killed two insurgents from the Islamist group Hamas and three Palestinian civilians on Friday as a fresh spike in cross-border violence continued for a second day.
The Israeli military said the (...)
GAZA: Israeli aircraft killed two Palestinian insurgents in the Gaza Strip on Sunday as tensions remained high despite signals on both sides of the border of a readiness to return to a de facto ceasefire.
Islamic Jihad, a militant group that has (...)
GAZA: Israeli tank fire struck a home in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing four Palestinians, including three youths, and injuring three other people, hospital officials said.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment.
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RAFAH: Egypt on Tuesday reopened its border with the Gaza Strip for limited Palestinian passage in both directions for the first time in almost a month, said the Islamist Hamas movement, which controls the territory.
Egypt closed the Rafah (...)
GAZA: Hamas launched a program on Tuesday to rebuild 1,000 homes in the Gaza Strip destroyed during an Israeli offensive two years ago, a project that could boost the Islamist group's standing in the enclave it controls.
Hamas, shunned by the (...)
GAZA: Egypt has told Hamas that Israel might launch a Gaza war to curb rocket attacks, a warning that led the group to urge other militant factions to cease fire, sources familiar with Egypt-Hamas contacts said on Wednesday.
"Egypt has told Hamas (...)
GAZA: A major bank in the Gaza Strip closed down two branches on Thursday, sparking a stampede by depositors and a crush in which several clients fainted.
Panic hit after word spread that the Arab Bank had shut two of its three branches to cut (...)
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GAZA: The Palestinian interior minister resigned on Monday, rocking a two-month-old unity government, after the biggest surge in factional fighting in months revived fears of civil war. Despite an Egyptian-brokered truce, two Palestinian (...)
GAZA: Fatah and Hamas officials agreed on Friday to take steps to end violence between the two rival Palestinian movements which has raised fears of civil war. Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said an Egyptian security delegation had (...)
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GAZA: An Israeli missile hit the Gaza Strip home of a well known lawmaker from the governing Islamist group Hamas on Wednesday in what the army said was an attack on a weapons factory.
In the West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian (...)
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GAZA: Fatah gunmen threatened on Tuesday to kill leaders of the governing Hamas group, escalating a power struggle marked by the worst internal violence in Gaza and the West Bank since the Palestinian Authority was created in 1994. On a (...)
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GAZA: Hundreds of Palestinian police and security officers blocked all main roads in Gaza City with garbage containers and burning tires on Thursday in a protest over largely unpaid wages. Policemen, firing rifles into the air, turned (...)
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GAZA: Egyptian mediators have presented Hamas and other militant groups with a new proposal aimed at ending a six-week-old standoff over an Israeli soldier seized near the Gaza strip, Hamas officials said on Tuesday. A source close to the (...)
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GAZA: The Gaza Strip s main international gateway was closed on Wednesday after European monitors said an Israeli security alert prevented them from manning the crossing, officials said. The Palestinian militant group Hamas said it (...)
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GAZA: Businessmen in Gaza, facing steadily worsening economic conditions since Israel limited trade in and out of the poor coastal strip, are trying to move their operations across the border into Egypt. Unable to import raw materials or (...)