22+ hour, 40+ min ago  (566+ words) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he had issued a directive to expand the Israeli military's control over the Gaza Strip from 60 percent to 70 percent of the territory, while Hamas warned that the ceasefire deal was on…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1114+ words) Three months on, he still has no force to lead as none of the five countries that pledged troops have come through with any significant contributions. Efforts to shore up the fragile ceasefire have stalled as Hamas has refused to…...

1+ week, 1+ day 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…...

1+ week, 3+ day 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…...

2+ week, 20+ hour 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…...

2+ week, 20+ hour 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…...

2+ week, 23+ hour 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…...

3+ week, 1+ 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....

3+ week, 4+ 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…...

1+ mon, 4+ 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…...