GAZA CITY (AFP) - A delegation of the Elders group of retired world figures on Saturday visited the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and called Israeli restrictions on the Palestinian enclave both illegal and an obstacle to peace.
"Mary Robinson, Ela Bhatt and Lakhdar Brahimi say the isolation of Gaza is not only illegal collective punishment, but also an impediment to peace," a statement from th [...]
GAZA CITY (AFP) - A female student at Al-Quds University in the Gaza Strip attended class on Saturday only to find she was not the first to arrive and had been beaten to it by a young male chimpanzee.
Alerted by her cries, campus police called a nearby zoo and were told that one of its chimps had made a dash for freedom, the university said.
"We had a surprise this morning when a fugit [...]
GAZA CITY (AFP) - A delegation from the Elders group of retired prominent world figures was in the Gaza Strip on Saturday to press for the easing of Israeli restrictions on the Hamas-ruled enclave.
Former Irish president and UN high commissioner for human rights Mary Robinson, Indian women's rights campaigner Ela Bhatt and former Algerian foreign minister and UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi entered Ga [...]
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Israeli warplanes carried out three raids on the Gaza Strip overnight wounding four Palestinians, Hamas security officials and witnesses said on Thursday.
Two people were wounded in air strikes in Gaza City while two more were wounded in a strike on the centre of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military said they hit two "terror targets" in response to rocket fire from Gaza earli [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Israeli warplanes staged three raids in the Gaza Strip overnight wounding four Palestinians, Hamas security officials and witnesses said Thursday.
Two people were wounded in strikes on the east and west of Gaza City and two others were hurt in a third attack on the centre of the Gaza Strip, they said.
An Israeli military spokeswoman refused to [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - An Israeli military court on Sunday convicted two soldiers of using a Palestinian child as a human shield by forcing him to check for booby traps during the 2008-2009 Gaza war.
A transcript of the court decision made available by the army said the infantry sergeants were found guilty of "exceeding their authority to the point of endangering life," and "conduct unbecomi [...]
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Israeli warships on Tuesday intercepted a Jewish activist boat trying to run the naval blockade on Gaza and forced it to change course for a port in southern Israel, organisers told AFP.
"Ten Israeli warships forced the boat to head for Ashdod by force," said Amjad al-Shawa, a Gaza-based organiser. "They surrendered because they were surrounded. They had no choice," he [...]
FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus (AFP) - A boat carrying Jewish activists from Israel, Europe and the United States set sail on Sunday from Cyprus bound for Gaza, in a bid to run Israel's blockade of the Palestinian territory.
The "Irene" left the port of Famagusta in the Turkish-held north of the divided eastern Mediterranean island in the early afternoon carrying eight activists, three of them crew me [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - A Palestinian fisherman was shot dead by the Israeli navy off the blockaded coast of the Gaza Strip on Friday, medics in the enclave said.
"Fisherman Mohammed Bakr died by a bullet by the Israeli navy today in the sea north of the Gaza Strip," said Adham Abu Selmiya, who heads the Palestinian territory's medical services.
An Israeli military spokeswom [...]
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