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Scoop
| 1 year ago
Ahmad Abu al-Amrin, director of the information office at the energy authority in Gaza, said that the occupation authorities refused to allow the Qatari fuel shipment into Gaza for the third time in a row, under the pretext of "security reasons".
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
The Israeli air force said it had attacked two weapons storage facilities in the Gaza Strip Wednesday. A statement from the spokesman's office of the Israeli military identified the attacks as direct hits and said the sites were targeted in response...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Human rights groups have warned that a Palestinian footballer who has been on hunger strike for 80 days in an Israeli prison faces imminent danger of death. Mahmoud al-Sarsak, who was once a star player in the Palestinian national team, was arrested...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 1 year ago
Direct hits were identified in the early Wednesday morning attacks, according to statement from the Israel Defense Forces spokespersons' office. The statement said that the sites were targeted in response to rocket fire from Gaza on southern Israeli...
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Haaretz
| 1 year ago
In a new report released on Wednesday, Amnesty International demanded Israel end the practice of holding Palestinians under administrative detention, calling on Israel to either release or properly charge Palestinians held in custody. The report...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The Palestinians urged foreign governments on Wednesday to implement the recommendations of an Amnesty International report criticizing Israeli prison conditions and practices. "The Palestinian government calls on the international community to take...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 1 year ago
Gaza Strip announced that there will be a reduction in its services in Gaza due to a decline in funding from donor countries...He also said that the program for distributing food is threatened by the lack of funds. Gaza, will create a deficit of $5...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 1 year ago
Sources said that a Palestinian, Tariq Aweis from Jenin, was arrested after Israeli forces raided his home. Three fishermen were arrested in Gaza after Israeli navy boats intercepted their fishing boat...Five Palestinians were arrested from Khirbet...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Israel must free all Palestinians held without charges under so called "administrative detention" orders or give them a swift and fair trial, rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday. "Release all administrative detainees unless they are...
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Ynet News
| 1 year ago
AFP Army says two arms caches bombed in response to rocket fire; Palestinians report two injuries. Hamas evacuating military facilities Elior Levy Air Force jets attacked targets in the Gaza Strip in response to the recent firing of rockets at Israel...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Julien Muguet Israel must either release or charge all Palestinians currently being held under administrative detention laws, Amnesty International stated in a report published late Tuesday. Israel has used its system of administrative detention...
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Scoop
| 1 year ago
The Higher Prisoners Committee of National and Islamic Parties handed a memorandum to the United Nations, and held a press conference outside. A group of children also handed a letter to the United Nations, demanding the release of the prisoners. The...
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Scoop
| 1 year ago
It has been reported that a chicken farm was one of the targets, and tunnels another...On Sunday a cheeses and yoghurt factory was targeted, destroying the factory for the fifth time since Operation Cast Lead at the end of 2008...As a resident of...
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Scoop
| 1 year ago
N Committee on the Rights of the Child 4 June 2012 Today, DCI-Palestine submitted a report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in advance of its review of Israel's compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 2013. All...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Mahmoud Sarsak walk near a poster bearing his picture in the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters A former member of the Palestinian national football team remains on hunger strike over his imprisonment by Israel without...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Palestinian Liberation Organization officials said a reform committee has agreed to regulations to boost women and youth candidates in Parliament elections. Party lists for the first Palestinian National Council elections must include one woman among...
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Haaretz
| 1 year ago
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged Israel on Tuesday to accept a two-state solution based on 1967 borders, warning that the opportunity "may not stay on the table for a long time" given the political upheavals caused by the Arab Spring. Abbas...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday used his keynote address at a regional World Economic Forum meeting to slam Israel over conditions in the Gaza Strip. "People are being jailed in the world's largest open-air prison," Erdogan...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Palestinians on Tuesday staged small demonstrations to mark the 45th anniversary of the Six Day War in which Israel seized the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Near the West Bank city of Ramallah, around 200 people protested by the Ofer military prison,...
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Jerusalem Newswire
| 1 year ago
Israel has acquired four of the specially modified diesel-electric submarines, taking delivery of the newest one just three weeks ago. They are known to be fitted with cruise missiles that have a range of 1,500 km, putting Syria and Iran within reach.
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Palestinian footballer Mahmoud Al-Sarsak left the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2009 to play football in the West Bank...He was arrested by Israeli security and, after three years of detention without trial, Sarsak is on hunger strike. His current term...
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Yemen Observer
| 1 year ago
Al-Hatami said the current health situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and refugee camps is alarming. The camps lack necessities of life, the cities are under occupation or blockade and lack the simplest health services, wounded persons...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The International Labor Organization warned Monday that the Middle East peace process is "badly stuck," leaving Palestinian workers in the occupied territories with a bleak outlook. "The optimism we saw last year has turned into a pessimism which has...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Germany is apparently equipping Israel with submarines which are fully capable of carrying nuclear warheads, suggests a report. Share This Story Three such submarines are built by the German shipyard HDW in the city of Kiel. They have already been...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The Israeli military carried out air strikes on Gaza overnight, injuring one Palestinian, after a rocket was fired at southern Israel, the army and Palestinian medical sources said on Monday. "Overnight, IAF [Israel Air Force] aircraft targeted a...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Three "Dolphin" class diesel-electric submarines delivered to Israel recently by the Howaldswerke Deutsche Werft (HDW) shipyard had been armed with medium-range missiles carrying nuclear warheads, Der Spiegel magazine reported. Israel, according to a...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 1 year ago
The factory belongs to Dalloul family, and is located in Az-Zeitoun neighborhood, in Gaza city; the bombardment led to excessive damage; the factory was previously bombarded five times. Furthermore, the army fired shells into open areas near Ar-...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 1 year ago
The early Sunday morning attacks targeted what the IDF described as three weapons manufacturing facilities in the central Gaza Strip and two tunnels allegedly used to attack Israeli military patrols in the area. The Palestinian news service Ma'an...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
Reuters Thursday 15 January 2009 LA PAZ: Bolivian President Evo Morales said yesterday his country is breaking diplomatic ties with Israel over the offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians. Bolivia had diplomatic...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
A small crowd on the docks in the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre, including fishermen, cheered welcoming the vessel, called SS Dignity, and some flashed the victory sign. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said the boat had ignored...
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Israel National News
| 1 year ago
According to the sources, the terrorist was an 18-year-old member of the Popular Resistance Committees terror group. He was wounded when the IAF attacked a terror squad in Gaza that was preparing to fire rockets into Israel.
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Haaretz
| 1 year ago
Design by Roni Arie Accelerated by cotendo Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East. Haaretz.com provides extensive and in-depth coverage of Israel, the Jewish World and the Middle...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 1 year ago
Last Tuesday, Israel gave its permission for the entry of the trucks starting on Sunday as it controls the commercial terminal. The Energy and National Resources Authority in Gaza said that the fuel is urgently needed in Gaza, and that it is...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
West Bank, 29 May 2008 Dozens of farmers from southern Israeli communities yesterday arrived at the Sufa border crossing and prevented the transfer of provisions into the Gaza Strip to protest the ongoing rocket attacks from Palestinian armed groups.
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
The two prisoners sent a letter to the Ramallah-based Addameer Human Rights Association in which they appealed to the Palestinian Authority leadership and Hamas to intervene to save their lives. The two men said they were being treated at a the Ramle...
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Salem News
| 1 year ago
In this aforementioned War of Words , Israel's second favorite term is 'rocket attacks' and this is absolutely something that takes place, but the further truth, is that in terms of lives, the rockets do not hold any records...For those people and...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
VOA News June 03, 2012 A series of Israeli airstrikes Sunday on the Gaza Strip has wounded seven people. The Israeli military said in a statement its aircraft targeted three weapon manufacturing facilities in the central Gaza Strip and "two terror...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
A delivery of 30 million liters of Qatari fuel, which was to have entered Gaza on Sunday, has been delayed yet again, officials said, prompting an angry reaction from the Palestinian energy authority. The Hamas-run Gaza Strip has been living through...
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Ynet News
| 1 year ago
Fighting Terror Strike on Rafah terror tunnel (Archives) Photo: Reuters Air Force jets destroy three Hamas, Islamic Jihad weapon mills, two terror tunnels in Strip Yoav Zitun The IAF struck five terror hubs in Gaza Strip overnight. Three of sites...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 1 year ago
Paltoday The army claims that it bombarded three facilities used for manufacturing weapons in addition to bombarding two siege-busting tunnels in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. According to the army, the bombarded facilities belong to...
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Tamil Net
| 1 year ago
Visiting alleged war criminals fear arrest in UK despite changes in law [TamilNet, Sunday, 03 June 2012, 01:37 GMT] Major-General Doron Almog, a senior Israeli officer of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Southern Command cancelled his planned trip to...
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Haaretz
| 1 year ago
Israeli F-16 fighter jets carried out four successive airstrikes on the northern, central and southern Gaza Strip before dawn Sunday in response to earlier rocket attacks by militants in the enclave. Witnesses said the Israeli planes hovered over the...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Three weapons production sites, two terror tunnels hit; Retaliation is second wave in wake of Palestinian infiltration into Israel, firing on IDF soldiers, killing of Netanel Moshiashvili. Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit The IAF carried out a number...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 1 year ago
Local sources reported that the army bombarded a chicken farm, and a farmland, located north of Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The shelling led to excessive damage but no injuries among the residents. Also, the air force fired at...
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Scoop
| 1 year ago
Monday, 28 May 2012, of four senior Israeli military commanders, who have been charged in a Turkish court in connection with the killing of nine Turkish citizens in 2010. Last Thursday, 31 May 2012, marked the second anniversary of the Israeli...
