(MaanImages/File) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli military vehicles opened fire on a border area in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, trapping journalists at the scene, witnesses said. Ten military vehicles crossed several hundred meters into Gaza, east of Khan Younis, firing towards houses and farmlands, residents said. A crew of journalists took cover for [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli military vehicles crossed into the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, witnesses told Ma’an. Seven army vehicles including bulldozers entered Gaza north of Beit Hanoun and dug up lands in the border area, they said, adding that gunshots were heard in the area. Meanwhile, four Israeli vehicles crossed the border east [...]
Israel, Palestine and the Human Rights Council By Robert FantinaWith the ever-present backing of the hypocritical United States, Israel has once more thrown a temper tantrum on the world stage. The latest move by the United Nations that has outraged apartheid Israel, is that organization’s decision [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinians and international activists went out in a demonstration organized by a local initiative in Beit Hanoun north of Gaza to protest the buffer zone on Tuesday. Coordinator Saber Zaaneen said the demonstration arrived to the zone, which Israel imposed on the borders of Gaza. It prevent hundreds of farmers from [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers on Monday shot and injured a Palestinian construction worker in eastern Gaza, medics said. The 23-year-old man was taken to the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, medical officials told Ma’an. An Israeli military spokeswoman did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Also Monday, witnesses said that dozens of [...]
Firefighters try to save bags of food aid at the United Nations headquarters in Gaza City after it was bombed by Israel on Jan. 15, 2009. (MaanImages/Mohamed Al-Zanon) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestine can still pursue an investigation into possible Israeli war crimes during the last offensive on Gaza at the International Criminal Court, PLO observer [...]
(MaanImages/file) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israel’s navy fired live ammunition at a fishing boat in the Gaza Strip on Monday, witnesses said. Several shells were fired into open areas off the Gaza coast, locals told Ma’an. An Israeli military spokeswoman said that a fishing boat had deviated from the designated fishing area, and after failing [...]
Sinai, a base for resistance Friday, 06 April 2012 A rocket fired from Sinai to Eilat on Thursday, is a fearful development for Israelis, for two main reasons. First is that the Sinai has turned out to be a strong base for the resistance against Israeli occupation. Second, the sole Israeli [...]
A family rushes from the scene of an Israeli missile strike on a building in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Dec. 28, 2008. (MaanImages/Hatem Omar) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The International Criminal Court will not investigate Israel’s conduct during its December 2008 offensive on Gaza because Palestine is not a state, the world prosecutor [...]
Death in war is simply murder no matter who commits the acts. Deaths related to a war are the same. That children can be slain as a part of any cause is the ultimate act of a coward or cowards. There is just no escaping [...]
A fuel tanker arrives at a power plant in the central Gaza Strip, March 23, 2012. Gaza’s sole power station shut down on Sunday morning after two days of electricity production. (REUTERS/ Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza’s sole power station shut down on Sunday morning after two days of electricity production, as [...]
A boy holds a flag during a rally calling on Egyptian authorities to supply the Gaza Strip with fuel and electricity in Khan Younis on the southern Gaza Strip March 23, 2012. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A senior leader of Hamas criticized the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority for being an ally of Israel [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Protesters on Wednesday held a rally in Gaza City against Mahmoud Abbas, accusing the president of neglecting his responsibilities to the Gaza Strip. They carried posters urging the president to resign if he could not fulfill his duties, and reminding Abbas that he presides over all Palestinian people and not just [...]
(MaanImages/Moti Milrod, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces killed 115 Palestinians last year, including 18 minors, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem.The death toll of 2011 shows a marked increase on 2010, when Israeli forces killed 68 Palestinians in Gaza and 12 in the West Bank. Further, [...]
Palestinians endured 6 decades of dispossession, occupation. (Julie Webb) By Roger Sheety The recent killing of 25 Palestinians in Gaza and the wounding of at least 80 more within four days—March 9-12—requires some context as the majority of western mainstream media outlets are either unwilling or unable to provide any. More often than not these [...]
Wounded Palestinian children (background) receive medical atttention at a hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on March 12, 2012, following an Israeli air raid. China is concerned about the escalation of the situation in Gaza.” Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Weimin China has called on Israel to put an [...]
In March 2003, the news was full of talk of war with Iraq – a preemptive war to protect the west, particularly the U.S. and Israel, from the weapons of mass destruction then alleged to have been amassed by Saddam Hussein. When Rachel traveled to Gaza that year, the world was not [...]
Palestinians take part in a rally calling on Egyptian authorities to end the power crisis, near the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 18, 2012. (Reuters/ Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Dozens of Palestinians gathered at the Rafah crossing into Egypt on Saturday, to protest continuing fuel shortages in [...]
Gaza. Everything as usual. (Al Jazeera) By Uri Avnery ‘What have you learned in school today, my son?’ ‘There was no school today. There is an emergency!’ ‘And what have you learned from that, my son?’ Actually, quite a lot. This week’s “round”, as the army likes to call it, followed a well-established pattern, as [...]
Gaza power plant stops due to smuggled fuel shortage By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA | Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:17pm EST Feb 14 (Reuters) – The Gaza Strip’s only power station, which supplies the Palestinian enclave with up to two-thirds of its energy needs, was shut down on Tuesday because of a [...]
We ask you to arm Gaza too MARCH 14, 2012 BY OCCUPIEDPALESTINE 0 COMMENTS Aren’t the Arabs supposed to be as one body? Isn’t it forbidden for anyone to shed Arab blood, especially the Israelis? MEMO | March 14, 2012 News about Israel’s latest killing spree against the people of the Gaza Strip has only occupied a [...]
A Farewell to a Purity of Arms By Richard Lightbown In response to the recent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip Hillary Clinton repeated the political mantra “Israel has the right to self-defence”. The statement is absolutely true of course, but that right does not allow Israel to commit offensive strikes [...]
Israel‘s Latest Ritual Slaughter By Stephen Lendman March 14, 2012 “Information Clearing House” —Four days of Israeli terror bombing left at least 25 Palestinians dead and dozens injured, some seriously. Human rights groups expressed outrage. So did Arab League states, Iran, Turkey, and Malaysia. Israel’s UN envoy Ron Prosor [...]
TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — The latest military campaign in Gaza should have been stronger, the country’s internal security minister said Tuesday after a ceasefire with Palestinianarmed groups.Yitzhak Aharonovich said that “This round was too long, unnecessarily so, and we should have increased our response. We need to learn our lessons so that next time [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The prime minister in Gaza said Tuesday that an agreement had been reached to stop Israel‘s military campaign against the Gaza Strip and an end to its assassination policy. Ismail Haniyeh told a visiting delegation that Egyptian efforts resolved the deadly escalation, as “the people and the government will not accept [...]
Israelis survey the damage to shops following a rocket attack in Gaza. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images Israel and militant factions in the Gaza Strip have agreed to an Egyptian-brokered truce to end four days of cross-border violence in which 25 Palestinians have been killed, a senior Egyptian security official said. Both sides had “agreed to end the current [...]
Netanyahu Raises Prospect of Ground Invasion of Gaza Egypt Predicts Ceasefire in Two Days by Jason Ditz, March 12, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Violence continued in the Gaza Strip today, with the fourth day of Israeli attacks against the tiny enclave killing at least seven people, including three civilians, bringing the [...]
The Palestinians and Israelis have made rival calls for the UN Security Council to act as Israel hit back against rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip with deadly air strikes that left at least 18 people killed, according to medics in Gaza. Tensions have mounted as the international Quartet on the [...]
At least 16 Palestinians have been killed and many others wounded in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since Friday,Press TV reported. “We believe the reason behind the Israeli attack is the silence of the Arab [world] and the international community. We demand that the resistance factions retaliate for and avenge [...]
Israeli Buffer Zone State Terror By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 11 March 2012 Israeli Buffer Zone State Terror by Stephen Lendman State terror is official Israeli policy. It’s imposed numerous ways to enforce harshness too extreme to bear. The strategy hopes many Palestinians will give up and leave. Israel repeatedly [...]
(MaanImages/HO) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Dozens of Palestinians gathered in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday to protest Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip which have killed 18 people since Friday. Demonstrators called for a halt to the violence and condemned the silence of the international community over the deadly fighting, as they gathered [...]
Men carry the body of 12-year-old boy Ayoub Assaleya during his funeral in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip March 11, 2012.(REUTERS/Suhaib Salem) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli airstrikes on Sunday killed three people in the Gaza Strip, including a 12-year-old boy, as cross-border violence continued for a third day. Medical spokesman in Gaza Adham [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The head of Gaza’s gas station owners organization said Wednesday that the Gaza Strip is experiencing a domestic-use gas crisis after Israel reduced the amounts of fuel entering the enclave. Mahmoud al-Shawwa said that over the past two weeks, Gaza has received 40 to 60 tons of domestic gas, but it [...]
(MaanImages/Hatem Omar, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Hamas leader Ahmad Yousef said Tuesday evening that ministers in a new interim government will be named within two weeks, raising hopes that an impasse over the unity cabinet had been broken. Hamas leader: New cabinet will be named in 2 weeks Published today (updated) 07/03/2012 11:43 Fatah [...]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A constitutional court in Ramallah on Tuesday postponed a hearing on the legality of President Mahmoud Abbas‘ appointment as prime minister of a unity government to March 20. Abbas and Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal agreed that the president will lead a unity government in Doha in February. PLO central council member Abdul-Jawwad [...]
An elderly Palestinian man waits bags full with olives at an olive oil factory following a harvest in Gaza City. (MaanImages/Wissam Nassar, File) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The leader of the business community in the Gaza Strip warned on Sunday that dozens of factories are at risk of closure due to Gaza’s fuel crisis.Ali al-Hayik, [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The prime minister in Gaza on Thursday called on Palestinian leaders to visit the Gaza Strip, saying they all have a right to visit the enclave as part of an undivided Palestine. Speaking during a lunch meeting with leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ismail Haniyeh [...]
Open Letter from Gaza: Three Years after the Massacre, Justice or Nothing! Tuesday, 27th December, 2011 Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine We, Palestinians of Gaza, 3 years on from the 22-day long massacre in Israel’s operation ‘Cast Lead’, are calling on international civil society to make [...]
Creativity under siege. (UNRWA) By Stuart Littlewood Imagine a handful of engineering students imprisoned in the tiny Gaza enclave taking on the cream of Europe’s technical universities in a competition to build a race car and compete with it. They did it last year. And they’re planning to do it again this year – at [...]
(MaanImages/file) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The International Committee of the Red Cross on Thursday supplied 150,000 liters of fuel to the ministry of health in the Gaza Strip. “The lack of fuel restricts the functioning of vital public services, especially hospitals,” Irfan Sulejmani, the head of the ICRC sub-delegation in Gaza, said in a statement. [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hamas officials on Thursday played down reports that the movement was placing barriers in front of a reconciliation deal it signed with Fatah earlier this month. Party spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said Hamas was moving forward with the deal in line with the terms agreed in Doha by President Mahmoud Abbas and [...]
Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore (MaanImages/HO) 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 Foreign Affairs and Trade, told reporters: “Ireland is completely opposed to the blockade … It is [...]
Israeli soldiers sit atop tanks near Kibbutz Nir Am, just outside the northern Gaza Strip, on Jan. 18, 2012. (REUTERS/Amir Cohen) GAZA CITY GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — An Israeli army tank fired an artillery shell at a Palestinian home east of Gaza City on Saturday morning, causing damage but no injuries, locals said. The shell [...]
Gaza premier Ismail Haniyeh speaks to the media after Friday prayers in Gaza City. (Reuters/Ismail Zaydah, File) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh will visit Iran during an upcoming international tour, he announced Wednesday. The trip will begin Jan. 30 and include a stop in Kuwait, Haniyeh said during a visit [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The Gaza headquarters of the Central Elections Commission reopened Tuesday and will start work Wednesday, officials said. link to article http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=455108 CEC director Jamil Khalidi received keys for the Gaza City office a day after the commission’s chairman Hanna Nasir lamented its closure. Nasir said Monday that the Hamas-led government had failed [...]
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Monday detained two Palestinian MPs during a raid on the Jerusalem headquarters of the International Red Cross.Mohammad Tawtah and former Jerusalem affairs’ minister Khalid Abu Arafa are being questioned by Israeli police on suspicion of conducting “Hamas activities inside Jerusalem,” Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Ma’an. The elected [...]
Hamas leader Khalid Mashaal confirmed on Saturday that he not stand again as head of the party’s politburo in upcoming elections in the movement. (AFP/Khaled Desouki, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=454153 – Hamas leader Khalid Mashaal confirmed on Saturday that he does not seek renomination as head of the party’s politburo in upcoming elections. A statement from [...]
UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos speaks during a news conference in Khartoum on Jan. 4, 2012. (REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah) UNITED NATIONS (Ma’an) — The UN humanitarian chief has told the Security Council that Israel’s settlement building in the West Bank and blockade of Gaza is harming Palestinian economic development. Israel’s dismantling of [...]
UN Slams Gaza Blockade: Collective Punishment of Civilians Blockade Causing Serious Human Rights Issues, Food Insecurity by Jason Ditz, January 18, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A child could see that what Israel does in Gaza is criminal in the [...]
Relatives of Muhammed Abu Odah mourn during his funeral in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip Jan. 18, 2012. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces opened fire on the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing two people and seriously injuring at least two others, witnesses and medics said. The health ministry in [...]
