Gaza

Since the start of the confrontation between Palestinian militants and Israel, more than 123,000 people have been displaced in the Gaza Strip, according to a report released by the UN on Monday. “Over 123,538 people, have...

Following violent protests in which Israeli fire injured three Palestinians, the Israeli army launched a drone strike on the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to sources on both sides. The early-evening strike is one of several...

For the first time, the military wing of Gaza rulers Hamas has displayed its weaponry in public, attracting hundreds of Palestinians, including toddlers carrying rocket launchers for pictures. Members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades interacted with...

Calm returned to Gaza on Sunday as a tenuous ceasefire ended five days of violence, leaving Palestinians and Israelis to tally the toll of cross-border shelling that killed scores. Fishermen flocked to the sea in the...

Following the death in Israeli custody of a Palestinian hunger striker from the Islamic Jihad faction, Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza on Tuesday, an AFP journalist witnessed. Following the death of Khader Adnan, a leading...

Thursday, a day after the bloodiest Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank in nearly 20 years, the Israeli army and Palestinian militants exchanged airstrikes and rocket fire in and around Gaza. Israeli forces raided the...

As violence erupted amid US pleas for “urgent efforts” to restore calm, Israeli jets attacked Gaza early on Thursday. Palestinian militants responded by firing rockets at the Israeli aircraft. Israel said that the dawn attacks, which...

In response to militant rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave, Israel began airstrikes on Gaza on Friday. Tensions had increased following the deadliest army assault on the occupied West Bank in years. Following waves of rocket...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Thursday expressed alarm at the high number of Palestinians, including children, killed and injured in the latest escalation in Gaza. “Inflicting hurt on any child during the...

An AFP reporter at the crossing claimed that fuel tankers entered Gaza on Monday as a cease-fire between Israel and Islamic Jihad militants in the Palestinian territory, negotiated by Egypt, held. The trucks arrived in southern...