Nothing much has changed in Gaza, despite a ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Palestine following the Israeli offensive in July and August this year. So says Dr Basil Abuwarda, a Palestinian doctor based at the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. “The situation is still the same and the siege[…]
Israel’s military say fighters in the Gaza Strip have test-fired rockets into the Mediterranean Sea, just hours after the government approved the construction of 78 new homes in two settlements in the occupied West Bank. Four rockets were fired in the past 24 hours, the military said, without elaborating on[…]
“There is no military solution, only a political one. Stop the siege, stop the bombing. Include the Palestinian people.” This was the call by Norwegian physician and activist, Dr Mads Gilbert, who has vowed to resist an Israeli imposed ban against him visiting the Gaza Strip. Gilbert lambasted the Israeli[…]
Mads Gilbert, an outspoken Norwegian doctor and activist who treated patients at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital during Israel’s assault on the Palestinian territory this summer, has been denied access to Gaza “indefinitely” by Israeli authorities. Gilbert told Al Jazeera on Friday that he was turned away from the Erez border crossing[…]
Norway’s doctor of peace for Gaza, Mads Gilbert, has been hit by a lifetime ban from entering the region by the Israeli government on Thursday. Israeli authorities cited security reasons as to why they have shut Gilbert out from the Gaza Strip. The Norwegian 67-year-old has travelled to and from[…]
Israeli naval boats on Wednesday evening fired at and sank a Palestinian fishing boat in the sea off the coast of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Witnesses said that army boats fired shells at a boat belonging to the al-Bardaweel family, completely destroying it in the process. People aboard[…]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday appointed a five-member panel to investigate Israeli attacks on UN shelters during the Gaza war and the discovery of Hamas weapons at UN sites. Ban announced plans to set up a probe during his visit to Gaza last month after describing Israeli shelling[…]
A series of co-ordinated explosions have targeted the homes of several leaders of President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Party in the Gaza Strip, a party official has said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the explosions early on Friday occurred at a time of rising tensions with the rival[…]
The highest-ranking US military officer has said that Israel went to “extraordinary lengths” to limit civilian casualties in the recent war in Gaza that killed hundreds of Palestinians, mostly civilians. Army General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged recent reports criticising civilian deaths during the[…]
Israel has closed two border crossings with Gaza, the army said on Sunday, after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave struck its territory. “The crossing points for people and goods, Erez and Kerem Shalom, have been closed until further notice except for humanitarian aid,” an army spokeswoman said. She[…]
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