Gaza Strip

Engaged couple's Gaza home destroyed just three weeks before their wedding.

Young Jewish Conservatives’ director Ben Packer supports founder of Kach organization designated as terrorist group by US.

Christians share traditional wheat-based dish.

Group blocked from entering al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

Watch: Writer sees Palestine beyond the occupied Gaza Strip for the first time.

Ezz Zanoun describes his life as a photojournalist under siege. 

Palestinian tradition carries on despite Israeli restrictions.

Young Palestinian couples beginning to overcome divisions between refugees and non-refugees.

Women play growing role in family mediation, but have sometimes met resistance.

“If Gaza has one face of death, she has many other faces of life."

Palestinians are still learning to cope with grief and loss three years after Israel's 51-day war.

Palestinians fear severing of Qatari lifeline to isolated territory.

"We have the right to live, and music is our language."

Palestinians describe the role falafel plays in their lives.

Aid for impoverished families dries up after Israel outlaws Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement.

A grandmother was struck under rubble for two hours after Israel attacked her home last summer.

Testimonies from Israeli soldiers remind me of my family’s fear last summer.

Classic automobiles remind Palestinians of when they could travel freely.

Gaza residents found Hebrew graffiti and Stars of David on their walls.

Only five truckloads of food and agricultural goods were exported from Gaza last month.

Only two percent of the $5.4 billion pledged reconstruction aid has been delivered.

Muhammad Mahmoud Quraiqe wants to draw the most portraits ever completed within a week.

Many farmers could not irrigate their trees during the Israeli assault, leading to sharp drop in harvest.

Depicting characters that were both proud and weary, the 23-year-old captured the mood during Israel’s summertime offensive.

Mohammed Al Hawajri, Raed Issa and Dina Matar on objects and memory, and home and resistance.

Two dozen Palestinians from Gaza remain in Israeli detention; captors have threatened to rape the men’s wives.

  MEMO | Sept 2, 2014 Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar said on Monday that the United States is a partner to the Israeli occupation and its crimes committed in the Gaza Strip.Speaking to the Palestinian Al-Quds television, he said: &#8220

MEMO | Tuesday, 02 September 2014 11:46 IMAGES The explosives engineering division in the Ministry of Interior in the Gaza Strip yesterday destroyed around five tonnes of unexploded bombs that were launched by the Israeli army on the sector during their latest assault.

Ma’an News Agency | (updated) 02/09/2014 12:57 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah met with a rep

  Tuesday September 02, 2014 10:03 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News Palestinian medical sources report that a man and a child have died of serious injuries suffered, in different strikes, during Israel’s extensive bombardment and aggression on the Gaza Strip.

by Richard Silverstein on September 1, 2014 | Tikun Olam | תיקון עולם IDF Col. Ofer Winter’s approach to Rafah: apres moi, le deluge.

Ma’an News Agency | Published today (updated) 02/09/2014 11:34 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces opened fire

Amid fear that Hamas had captured an Israeli soldier, the Israeli military sealed civilians in the Rafah area and began shelling on Aug. 1, 2014. The Israeli military confirmed that Rafah residents were barred from leaving the area, but declined comment on the war crime allegations.

    Published on Sep 1, 2014 Press TV has spoken to British member of parliament George Galloway who was attacked for his views on Israel during the recent Gaza offensive. Galloway says the attack on him is an attack on the British parliament but is surprised at Westminister’s silence.

Ma’an News Agency | (updated) 01/09/2014 22:30 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu d

PressTV | Published on Sep 1, 2014 Israel’s aerial and ground assaults on the Gaza Strip have wreaked destruction on the blockaded area, Press TV reports.

By Stuart Littlewood | Redress | Sept 1, 2014 The UK Independence Party (UKIP), which hopes for a big breakthrough in next year’s general election, has been wining and dining potential Conservative defectors one of which has actually come across.

Ma’an News Agency | Sep 1, 204 | 16:49 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) &

MEMO | Monday, 01 September 2014 14:43 Speaking in a meeting of Fatah leaders in Ramallah, Abbas said: ‘The plan, which was proposed in 1956, included annexing 1,600 square kilometres from the Sinai Peninsula to the Gaza Strip in order to receive Palestinian refugees.&

Ma’an News Agency | (updated) 01/09/2014 14:49 GAZA CITY (AFP) — Still in shock weeks after an Israeli shell blast shredded his arm and killed four members of his family, Ahmed Ayyad is one of many wounded Palestinians in Gaza now ne

Published today (updated) 01/09/2014 15:15 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A nine-year-old boy died in Gaza on Monday from wounds sustained during Israel’s recent offensive on the besieged enclave, medics said.

MEMO | Monday, 01 September 2014 12:12     The Palestinian Authority should propose a mechanism for the opening of the Gaza border crossings in accordance with the ceasefire agreement, leading member of the Hamas movement Mousa Abu-Marzouk said yesterday.In an interview with Al-Aqsa Satellite Channel, Abu-Marzouk said the opening of borders should not be &

Published on Sep 1, 2014 #Watch Short video addressing the 1st stage of the distribution process for #EMGAZA2 Full report & Photos are on this link https://www.facebook.com/hani.s.salam&

MEMO | Monday, 01 September 2014 12:16   A number of Palestinian human rights groups have called on the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to immediately sign the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in order to facilitate the prosecution of Israeli leaders over war crimes.The NGOs include the Aldameer Association for Human Rights, the &

[ PIC 01/09/2014 – 06:52 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Ismail Haneyya, Deputy Head of Hamas political bureau, urged the Egyptian intelligence to pressure the Israeli occupation to observe the terms of the ceasefire agreement brokered by Egypt a few days ago.

The int’l public foundation to aid Gaza held its first meeting in Istanbul   [ PIC 01/09/2014 – 06:54 AM ] ISTANBUL, (PIC)&

[ PIC 01/09/2014 – 08:52 AM ] GAZA,(PIC)– Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad confirmed Sunday during a phone conversation with deputy chief of Hamas political bureau Ismail Haneyya that his country has already started preparations

    Published on Aug 31, 2014 Palestinian human rights groups are trying to initiate an international investigation into the treatment of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli military during the Gaza war that could amount to war crimes.