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Gaza,(Alresalah.ps)--As a response to the emergency assistance call of the local health officials in the Gaza Strip, suffering from the illegal blockade, concerning the supply of out-of-stock and...
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 15:50
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a Palestinian child and a young man were wounded on Friday at dawn, when the Israeli Air Force bombarded a number of areas in the coastal...
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 15:28
Calling the Israeli regime as one of apartheid is not rhetoric, nor is it an exaggeration or a propaganda tool. This is the reality in modern day Palestine, where the Israeli regime is based on...
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 02:00
Paris-based Tu Vas Voir developing adaptation of Sacco’s graphic novel on 1956 Gaza massacre; company also confirms new Walter Salles film to start shooting at end of 2012.
Incendies director Denis...
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 20:36
by Ali Abunimah (Electronic Intifada)
Yesterday I wrote to University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, asking her to condemn a vile and inflammatory attack by Professor Ruben Gur on the...
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 18:25
Palestinian Parliament speaker Aziz Dweik is being held by Israel along with dozens of other parliamentarians
STRASBOURG, February 1, 2012 (WAFA) – A group of 26 members of the European Parliament...
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 13:53
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Dozens of people threw shoes and stones at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's convoy as it entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Ma'an's correspondent said.
No one was injured...
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 16:00
Both the Ma'an News Agency and the Palestinian Authority’s news service, WAFA, have on Tuesday suffered from repeated attacks by hackers, leading to periods where their news sites have been...
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 14:51
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian farmer on Tuesday east of Gaza City, medical officials and an Israeli military official said.
Emergency services spokesman Adham...
Tue, 01/31/2012 - 23:29
GAZA CITY - Secours Islamique France is a respected aid agency, part of the global Islamic Relief network based in the UK, but when it comes to helping Palestinians in Gaza, its operations are...
Tue, 01/31/2012 - 20:15
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- The Israeli prison service has decided to break the hunger strike of detained Islamic Jihad leader Sheikh Khader Adnan by force, the Hebrew radio said on Tuesday.
Adnan earlier on...
Tue, 01/31/2012 - 18:52
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at night, the eastern area of the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, and kidnapped two residents east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza...
Mon, 01/30/2012 - 18:45
Khader Adnan, an imprisoned Palestinian activist and a spokesperson for the Islamic Jihad party, has been on an ongoing hunger strike since December 17. He is facing severe health consequences for...
Mon, 01/30/2012 - 15:25
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh left the Gaza Strip on Monday, for his second international tour in weeks.
Departing through the Rafah crossing with Egypt, Haniyeh will first...
Sun, 01/29/2012 - 13:47
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore visited the Gaza Strip on Friday, where he slammed Israel's blockade on the coastal enclave.
Gilmore, who is also Minister for...
Sat, 01/28/2012 - 19:46
Palestinian local sources reported that an Israeli missile targeted Saturday at dawn a home in the neighborhood of Ash-Shujaa’eya, east of Gaza. No injuries reported.
Eyewitness told the Maan News...
Fri, 01/27/2012 - 20:02
(Reuters) - The leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, has effectively abandoned his headquarters in the Syrian capital, Damascus, diplomatic and intelligence sources said...
Fri, 01/27/2012 - 15:51
A year ago on January 23, 14-year-old Islam Dar Ayoub Tamimi was arrested at gunpoint after the Israeli army surrounded his house at around 1:30am. A few days before, on January 17, Islam’s house was...
Thu, 01/26/2012 - 23:57
(Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordanian King Abdullah - image by Al-Arabiya)
The recent talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have reached a standstill, with the Israeli...
Thu, 01/26/2012 - 19:51
VIVAnews – The construction of Indonesia Hospital (RSI) in Gaza, Palestine is nearing to be completed. Chairman of MER-C's Presidium, Jose Rizal Jurnalis, said the first work is almost 80% completed....