Palestinian officials announced a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip this morning after 24 Palestinians and four Israelis were killed in the worst fighting for five years. The Israeli army on Monday lifted protective restrictions on [ More … ]
Nineteen Palestinians and four Israelis killed as Israeli forces mass on Gaza border, stoking fears of the ground invasion. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered “massive strikes” on the Gaza Strip after a two-day escalation that [ More … ]
Israeli fighter jets bomb alleged Hamas facilities in besieged enclave, with a man and a woman reported injured in Rafah Israeli fighter jets bombed multiple alleged Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early on Friday, [ More … ]
United Nations investigators reported on Thursday that Israeli forces who fired on Palestinians during the mass demonstrations on the border with Gaza, killing more than 100 people, may have committed war crimes. The report, by [ More … ]
Israeli settlers prevented the entry of dozens of truckloads of basic supplies and fuel, on Sunday, into the besieged Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing. According to local sources, dozens of Israeli settlers blocked [ More … ]
Jared Kushner, United States President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, and Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, concluded their visit to Cairo. The US delegation’s brief time in the Egyptian capital [ More … ]
This insight traces the different styles, eras, mechanisms, and transitions of Palestinian leadership across the past century and draws lessons for the future, arguing that there is hope for the Palestinian struggle in the current [ More … ]
At least 124 Palestinians, including journalists and medics, have been shot dead by Israelis in Gaza since late March Israeli troops killed four Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others on Friday with live fire and [ More … ]
Thousands of Palestinians have attended the funeral in Gaza of a volunteer medic who was killed by Israeli fire during protests on the border. Razan al-Najar, 21, was shot dead as she ran towards the [ More … ]
Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes on positions of Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The raids targeted three positions of Islamic Jihad group and a position of Hamas in central and southern Gaza [ More … ]
Israeli naval forces have intercepted a boat that set out from the Port of Gaza on Tuesday in hopes of breaking Israel’s decade-long siege of the Gaza Strip. Adham Abu Silmiyya, a spokesman for Gaza’s [ More … ]
Turkish Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Saturday there will be no peace in Palestine unless Israel ends its occupation. Writing for the Istanbul-based Daily Sabah, Kalin said: “The problem is the occupation and without [ More … ]
Israel has blamed Hamas for ‘riots’ on Gaza frontier, and says the killing of 60 protesters was measured. How do the facts stack up? The killing of scores of Palestinian protesters in Gaza has put [ More … ]
Palestinian protests on the Gaza-Israel border have dropped off over the past two days, amid reports that Egyptian officials intervened to restore calm after dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire. Gaza’s dominant Islamist [ More … ]
Turkey on Tuesday asked the Israeli ambassador to leave the country following indiscriminate violence and killings by Israeli soldiers along the Gaza border, diplomatic sources said. The Foreign Ministry summoned Ambassador Eitan Naeh and told [ More … ]
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