Heavy rain has flooded low-lying areas across the Gaza Strip, including Khazaa and Beit Hanoun where thousands of Gazans displaced by the Israeli offensive last summer are living in caravans. Civil Defense spokesman Muhammad al-Midana told Ma’an that a number of homes in the neighborhood of Kunz Street and Shabia[…]
The public workers union in the Gaza Strip announced that a general strike would be in effect Thursday across all public institutions in protest against the government’s continued to failure to pay salaries to tens of thousands of employees of the former Hamas government. The strike announcement signals a renewed[…]
The human rights group Amnesty International said in a report Thursday that Palestinian fighters committed war crimes during the 2014 Gaza conflict by killing both Israeli and Palestinian civilians using indiscriminate projectiles. The report comes after two other reports issued in late 2014 that accused Israel of war crimes for[…]
Israel’s military says it has opened several criminal investigations into incidents that took place during last year’s Gaza war against Hamas. In a statement late Thursday it says the Military Advocate General ordered six investigations, two of which were concluded with no wrongdoing found. One case concerns the death of[…]
“There would be a massive burden of injured and targeting of medics and ambulances; typically a first strike followed by a second strike when people gathered to assist victims of the first…” These are the words from a medical assistant working in the Gaza Strip during the 2014 attacks in[…]
The unprecedented number of Palestinians killed in the 2014 war in Gaza was linked to changes in the military rules of engagement regarding civilian protection measures by Israel’s army, a London-based NGO said this week. In a new report entitled ‘Under Fire,’ Action on Armed Violence found that Israel has[…]
Six months after a ceasefire agreement ended Israel’s 50-day military offensive on the Gaza Strip, Palestinians in the war-torn territory remain hostage to a UN-brokered reconstruction mechanism which has failed to deliver. On Sept. 16, Robert Serry, the UN envoy for the Middle East, announced a deal to ease restrictions[…]
OPINION by Tony Laurance- Writing for Al Jazeera last October, ahead of the Cairo Donor Conference for Gaza, I warned that it was not enough to pledge large sums – as donors duly did. We needed to learn from past failures and ensure that the aid was actually delivered. Alas,[…]
The Israeli military’s chief legal adviser said on Thursday that he is not concerned about a possible investigation by the International Criminal Court into Israel’s conduct during last year’s Gaza war. Israel’s own internal probes are sufficient, said advocate general Maj. Gen. Danny Efroni. The Palestinians recently joined the Netherlands-based[…]
Only about a little over five percent of money pledged to rebuild Gaza devastated by Israel’s deadly assault on the Palestinian territory last year has reached Gaza, humanitarian news service IRIN has said. A source at the office of the Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, told IRIN on Monday[…]
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