Palestinian universities in the Gaza Strip are suffering from a severe financial crisis that threatens the continuity of their work next year, academics and university administrators said on Thursday. On the sidelines of a meeting […]
Gaza’s growing humanitarian crisis is finally registering in Israel as a pressing problem requiring “clear and immediate” action. However, it is not the impact of the crisis on the population of Gaza that is sounding the alarm […]
Newly-released data for June has provided a reality check to reported claims that Israeli authorities are easing restrictions on the blockaded Gaza Strip. According to Gisha, an Israeli NGO which monitors and campaigns on freedom of […]
Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet rejected a plan which would have allowed 5,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to work in Israel, Ynet News reported yesterday. News reports revealed that there had been secret talks between Israel […]
A Hamas delegation headed by Dr. Musa Abu Marzouq yesterday met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Bogdanov in Moscow. Abu Marzouq briefed the Russian official on the political developments of the Palestinian issue including […]
Palestine is embarking on an ambitious project to produce all of their own energy for internal consumption. If successful, it would break its electricity dependence on the Israeli government that frequently leaves the West Bank and Gaza Strip without power. Seeking to reduce […]
Two leaders of Israeli towns in the peripheries of the Gaza Strip boycotted a visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, local media reported yesterday. According to the Times of Israel, the leaders accused Netanyahu’s government of […]
Director of UNRWA’s operations in Gaza Matthias Schmale yesterday warned that the situation in the besieged Gaza Strip “is moving from bad to worse”, the Anadolu Agency reported. Schmale told a meeting organized by Press House in […]
Israel has resumed allowing fuel entries into the blockaded Gaza Strip following a three-day hiatus, according to a Palestinian official, Anadolu Agency reports. Mohammad Thabet, the spokesman for Gaza’s electricity company, told Anadolu Agency: “The resumption of […]
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza yesterday warned of deterioration in conditions in its hospitals due to the “unprecedented” lack of medicines, Shehab.ps reported. In a statement, the ministry said that: “Patients in Gaza hospitals are […]
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) yesterday called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to stop its “racist” policies against the Gaza Strip, Safa news agency reported. In a statement, the PFLP said that the […]
Israeli defense contractors yesterday completed a new section of a wall along the Gaza Strip. The wall, which is a bright green barrier along roads bordering Gaza, is intended to prevent Gazans from clearly seeing […]
The second group of the medical aid convoy, “Miles of Smiles 36” arrived in the Gaza Strip through Rafah Border Crossing, Monday. Khaled Al-Yousef, the coordinator of the Miles of Smiles convoy in Europe, said […]
The Gaza Strip suffered financial losses of more than $9.5 million as a result of Israeli attacks during the escalation in early May, reported Xinhua. The figure was given by Naji Sarhan, deputy minister of Public […]
UNRWA’s budget deficient now stands at $200 million, Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl revealed today. During a press conference at the agency’s regional headquarters in Gaza City, Krahenbuhl said: “The current budget deficit of the Agency’s budget is […]
Israel announced yesterday that it would return 65 confiscated fishing boats to fishermen in the Gaza Strip, the Wafa news agency reported. This comes after NGOs Gisha – Legal Centre for Freedom of Movement, Adalah – The […]
Israeli authorities have decided to drastically reduce the permitted fishing zone off Gaza’s coast “until further notice,” on Thursday. Head of the Palestinian Fishermen Union in Gaza, Zakariya Bakr, told Ma’an that Israeli authorities reduced […]
UN Envoy for the Middle East Process Nikolay Mladenov yesterday discussed with Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh the Israeli siege imposed on Gaza and the situation of prisoners inside Israeli prisons. In a statement, Hamas said […]
Israeli authorities reportedly reopened a limited fishing zone off the coast of the Gaza Strip today, according to reports. The Israeli government and fishermen both stated that a 12 nautical mile fishing zone was opened this morning, though […]
After mourning the killing of 27 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Palestinians in Gaza began observing the holy month of Ramadan. In Al-Nusierat refugee camp, in central Gaza, hundreds of people went to the local […]
Israeli authorities partially opened the Karam Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) border crossing to allow the entry of truckloads of fuel into the besieged Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, after 48 hours of Israeli escalation. According to […]
Marking International Labor Day, the besieged Gaza Strip has seen its unemployment rate rise to 54% with poverty levels rising to 80%, according to Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU), on Wednesday. The head […]
The World Bank said, on Wednesday, that Palestinian economy is now facing a “severe fiscal shock” due to the tax revenues issue with Israel, calling for a speedy resolution. The published report, prepared by the […]
Israeli naval forces opened heavy fire, on Thursday morning, towards Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of the northwestern besieged Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses told Ma’an that Israeli naval forces fired several mortar shells towards Palestinian […]
Large areas in the besieged Gaza Strip had its electricity cut off since predawn Friday due to the failure of a second power generator. The Electric Distribution Company in Gaza confirmed that a second power […]
The only pharmaceutical factory in the Gaza Strip is struggling to survive Israeli restrictions and the economic crises brought about by the 12-year siege imposed on the coastal enclave. The factory has been subjected to […]
Israel today closed Gaza’s main commercial crossing to all good except fuel, local sources reported. Israel has increased its targeting of the besieged Gaza Strip over the past few days, striking sites in the enclave causing damage […]
Unemployment rate in the Gaza Strip sharply increased in 2018 to reach 52% compared with 44% in 2017, while in the West Bank it was 18% in 2018, compared to 19% the year before, the […]
A Palestinian was shot and injured by Israeli live fire, on late Monday, east of Gaza City. Local sources told Ma’an that Israeli forces opened fire towards a group of Palestinians, east of Gaza City, […]
Two Palestinians were killed overnight in a tunnel between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, Gaza’s interior ministry said Monday. Bozum said 39-year-old major Abdelhamid al-Akar and Sabhy Abu Qarushayn, 28, “suffocated due to the inhalation of toxic […]
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