The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has said she is weighing opening war crimes investigations into Palestinians as well as Israelis after Palestine joined the tribunal’s jurisdiction last month. Fatou Bensouda rejected Israeli fears of bias by the court, promising to consider the evidence “independently and impartially without fear or[…]
– Three ships are prepared to embark to the Gaza Strip this summer in a humanitarian mission called “Freedom Flotilla III,” the coordinator of the international coalition to break the siege on Gaza Berawi Zaher said in a statement Friday. He explained in a press statement that the departure time[…]
The UN’s new Middle East peace envoy on Thursday urged Palestinian factions to unite and Israel to lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip, on his first visit to the territory. “I strongly believe that it will hurt the cause of the Palestinian people if division, if the lack of[…]
Police in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip beat and arrested protesters on Wednesday at a youth rally in the north of the besieged coastal territory, an AFP correspondent said. More than 400 demonstrators gathered in Shujaiyeh, a neighborhood in eastern Gaza City that was razed during a July-August war between Hamas and[…]
A 14-year-old Palestinian is in critical condition and has been transferred to Ramallah for treatment after he was hit by a stray Israeli bullet on Friday at his home in the central Gaza Strip, his family said Tuesday. The family of Fadi Abu Mandil, 14, said that the teen will[…]
A United Nations inquiry on Monday blamed the Israeli military for seven attacks on UN schools in Gaza that were used as shelters during the 2014 war. “I deplore the fact that at least 44 Palestinians were killed as a result of Israeli actions and at least 227 injured at[…]
Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian man east of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday. A Ministry of Health spokesman, Dr. Ashraf al-Qudra, said that the 37-year-old man had been shot in his right foot in the Abu Safiya area east of Beit Hanoun. Al-Qudra said the[…]
A group of Good Samaritans from Cape Town rallied together to raise half a million rand for humanitarian agency Gift of the Givers (GOTG) for their continuous work in Gaza. An impressive amount of R520 000 was collected by the Muslim Association of the Red Cross Hospital (March) and was[…]
A Hamas spokesman said Monday that ministers of the unity government informed him they were leaving the Gaza Strip upon instructions by Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah after failing to register civil servants. Sami Abu Zuhri said in news conference that he was informed that the cabinet did not have the[…]
Six months after donors pledged billions of dollars for devastated Gaza, most of the money remains blocked, and reconstruction efforts are painfully slow, a coalition of aid groups said Monday. The report also condemned the international community for failing to help open the blockaded Palestinian territories up to each other,[…]
WhatsApp us 