The Israeli military calls it “the campaign between the wars” — short but increasingly harsh operations against the Hamas rulers of Gaza that are meant to warn off the Islamist militant group and postpone, if not prevent, the next major conflagration. The problem is that each round of escalating violence may instead bring the next […]

Israel and Palestine’s Hamas resistance movement have agreed to restore calm in the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for Hamas said on Saturday. “With Egyptian and United Nations efforts it has been agreed to return to the era of calm between (Israel) and Palestinian factions,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told Reuters. Israel did not immediately comment […]

Police in Gaza said they are investigating the cause of a blast which killed a man and his son in the enclave on Sunday. The explosion came hours after a ceasefire ended a fierce flare-up in fighting between Israel and Hamas resistance movement. “An explosion took place this morning in a house west of Gaza […]

The Palestinian Health Ministry in a report on Friday said 120 people have been killed and hundreds have been injured since March 30 Felestin Al-Youm (Palestine Today) quoted the Palestinian Health Ministry that some 120 Palestinians were killed and thousands more injured during the six-week “March of Return” protests that first began on March 30 […]

Iranian National Committee of Humanitarian Law has denounced the killing of tens of civilians, including children and teenagers, and injury of thousands by armed Israeli forces in Gaza Strip. According to the news and reports on the current attacks dated Monday 14 May 2018 –Nakba Day– in Gaza Strip by the Zionist Regime which coincided with 70th anniversary […]

Ali Akbar Velayati, the senior Aide to Iranian Leader, posted a message on his official page on the Internet, condemning the Friday murdering of Palestinian demonstrators in the Gaza Strip. “The latest crimes committed by the blood-shedding Zionist regime which murdered the Palestinians attending the Return Day demonstration revealed, once again, the savage and criminal […]

Ali Larijani, the current Chairman of PUIC, issued a statement late on Saturday condemning the Friday murdering of Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza strip. “The only language that the terrorists ruling in Tel Aviv can understand is the language of force and resistance is only solution to counter the ambitious ends of the Zionist regime,” reads […]

EU’s diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini issued a statement on Saturday criticizing Israeli use of live ammunition against peaceful assembly of Palestinians near the Gaza border. In a statement issued by Federica Mogherini, EU High Representative/Vice-President, on Saturday, the European Union called for an independent and transparent probe into Israel’s deadly use of force against protesters […]

The sole electricity plant in the Gaza Strip has stopped working because of a lack of fuel as concerns grow over worsening humanitarian conditions in the besieged Palestinian enclave. Mohammed Thabet, spokesman for Gaza’s energy distribution company, said on Thursday that it was informed by the energy authority that the power station had stopped functioning […]

TEHRAN  – The Palestinian Hamas movement has handed over administrative control of Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings on the Israeli regime border, and Rafah crossing on the Egyptian border to Palestinian Authority. Wednesday’s handover, the first in over a decade, is part of deals agreed on in the latest round of Egypt-brokered reconciliation between Hamas […]