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Egypt

Gaza border with Egypt opens under Palestinian Authority control

For the first time in a decade, the Gaza border with Egypt opens under Palestinian Authority control

18/11/2017

World News

Palestinian PM visits Gaza in reconciliation with Hamas

Palestinian PM and Fatah executive member visits Gaza as reconciliation with Hamas gains speed.

02/10/2017

World News

Expert analysis on Hamas move for unity

Palestinian Hamas group has said it is to take key steps to end a decade-old feud with rival faction, the Fatah movement.

19/09/2017

West Bank

Hamas 'ready' to work with Palestinian authority in Gaza

Repeated attempts at reconciliation have failed since the Islamist Hamas group drove forces loyal to President Abbas from the Gaza Strip in 2007.

17/09/2017

Gaza

Israel unveils plans for artificial island off Gaza

Israel says project will ease economic and humanitarian woes in Palestinian enclave

11/07/2017

Gaza

Egypt fuels Gaza to ease power crisis

Fuel from Egypt used to be smuggled through tunnels, many of them now destroyed by Cairo.

21/06/2017

Gaza

Power supplies to Gaza Strip cut even further

Hamas accuses Palestinian Authority of making life difficult to win political concessions

14/06/2017

Gaza

Gaza at risk of 'systemic collapse'

24/05/2017

World News

Gaza struggles under blockade

The International Committee of the Red Cross has warned that Gaza is at risk of systemic collapse as it struggles on with barely any electricity.Ongoing divisions between Fatah and Hamas mean that t

23/05/2017

West Bank

Hamas again leads Gaza boycott of Palestinian local elections

Palestinians go to the polls for the first time since 2012 today in the West Bank, again without the participation of Hamas, which is not allowing any vote in the Gaza Strip.

13/05/2017

Gaza

Palestinians react after Hamas unveils new charter

There has been reaction in Gaza and the West Bank after Hamas unveiled its new charter.

02/05/2017

West Bank

Palestine shuts up shop to support hunger-striking prisoners

Protests across the West Bank and Gaza are designed to show solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails.

27/04/2017

World News

'The occupation of Palestine dehumanises Israel'

“The occupation of Palestine is not only a serious attack on Palestinian rights and humanitarian standards – it is a cancer that will ultimately destroy democracy in Israel”, says Daniel Bar-Tal, a 71

26/04/2017

Israel

Israeli PM is slammed over conduct in 2014 Gaza war

"Israel needs to fix flaws" revealed in a scathing report on the conduct of the PM and that of former defence officials during the 2014 Gaza war

01/03/2017

World News

Export of 'useless' flowers halts in Gaza

The Gaza Strip once exported around 50 million flowers, but due to the area’s political situation, this figure has dropped to zero, according to Arab 24.

21/02/2017

Gaza

Residents evacuated from flooded Gaza camp

Rescue workers have evacuated the elderly from theır homes flooded wıth sewage and raın water ın a refugee camp ın the northern Gaza Strıp.

16/02/2017

Gaza

Hamas elects Yahya Sinwar as Gaza leader

The Palestinian group Hamas has elected a commander of its armed wing as overall leader in Gaza.

13/02/2017

Israel

Tensions flare on Israel-Gaza border

A group affiliated with the so-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for firing rockets towards Israel from Egypt.

09/02/2017

Gaza

Gaza blames Israel for tunnel blast 'killing two Palestinians'

The authorities in Gaza say two Palestinians were killed by an Israeli bomb attack on a tunnel near the Egyptian border.

09/02/2017

Gaza

Gazans protest power cuts

Security forces in Hamas-controlled northern Gaza have broken up protests by thousands of people calling for an end to power cuts.

13/01/2017