3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (274+ words) Israeli strikes killed at least four people and wounded several others across Gaza on Thursday, the Palestinian News and Information Agency reported. The report said that the attacks occurred in Rafah and Khan Younis in southern Gaza, and Beit Lahia…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago  (839+ words) Israel at the weekend announced the government's approval for a defense ministry complex at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency "s compound in Sheikh Jarrah, including a museum and enlistment office. "These are U. N. premises and, at a minimum, this…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (439+ words) As Palestinians marked the 78th Nakba Day on Friday, children in Gaza continued to be stripped of their right to education, as bombs are turning their schools into rubble, and smashing what was left of young survivors' futures. On May 14, 1948, Israel…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1413+ words) The village, al-Joura, was demolished by the Israeli military at the time. It has since vanished under neighborhoods of the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon and the grounds of a national park. The neighborhood where Abu Hamam's family ended up…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (563+ words) 78 years ago, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, seen by many Palestinians as a national catastrophe, or "Nakba," tore through the Gaza Strip, resulting in mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians. However, 78 years later, many believe that the history repeats itself as the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (690+ words) Displaced residents in Gaza are relying on tents equipped with solar panels to provide them a lifeline to the outside world, with these makeshift charging stations helping people keep their phones topped up and stay connected amid frequent power outages....

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (550+ words) An entire generation of young people in the war-torn Gaza Strip are watching their future collapse under the weight of shattered schools, mass unemployment, and the lingering trauma of conflict. Gaza's youth have been stripped of their classrooms, jobs and…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (1200+ words) The vote in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah was a largely symbolic "pilot" election, officials said, part of the Palestinian Authority's effort to politically link Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, unpopular in the West Bank and frozen…...

4+ week, 17+ hour ago  (1475+ words) The Palestinian Authority, which administers semiautonomous areas of the West Bank but is left out of the U. S. -drafted ceasefire plan for Gaza, has described Saturday's local election in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah as a largely symbolic pilot while the authority…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (691+ words) Thousands of Palestinians voted Saturday in the first municipal elections held in Gaza in 20 years, though the process was limited to the city of Deir al-Balah in the central part of the enclave, alongside local elections across the West Bank....