
May 2 - By Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press
Authorities in the U.S. have accused a divorced Palestinian man of illegally moving his three children from their home in Kansas to his native Gaza earlier this year.

Apr 20 - By Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press
There is an afterlife for animals at the Khan Younis zoo in the impoverished Gaza Strip.
Apr 20 - By Associated Press
The U.N.'s human rights office says three men recently sentenced to death in the Palestinian territory of Gaza were executed unlawfully.
Apr 7 - By Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press
Gaza's Hamas rulers say they have executed three men in dawn hangings.
Apr 4 - By Associated Press
A Gaza official says Israeli fuel is being trucked to the Gaza Strip to power the Palestinian territory's only electricity station and ease a severe power shortage.
Apr 3 - By Associated Press
Swedish activists say they are planning another aid convoy to Gaza before the end of this year to protest Israel's blockade of the Palestinian territory.

Mar 25 - By Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press
Police in Hamas-ruled Gaza have detained dozens of taxi drivers for allegedly spreading "rumors" about the territory's worst power crisis in years, officials said Monday,
Mar 6 - By Karin Laub, Associated Press
The U.N.'s World Food Program is exporting 140 tons of date bars to the West Bank from Gaza this week, hoping this first shipment in nearly five years will help revive a vital trade route, an official said Tuesday.

Mar 1 - By Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press
Some 2,200 school children and 300 adults ran a relay race Thursday traversing the Gaza Strip north to south, roughly the distance of an Olympic marathon, to raise money for U.N. summer camps.
Jan 11 - By Associated Press
A Hamas official in Gaza says the militant group has sentenced a local Palestinian to death for collaborating with Israel.
Dec 29 - By Josef Federman, Associated Press
Each day, dozens of trucks move food, consumer products and industrial materials into the Gaza Strip at this heavily fortified crossing, in an odd arrangement that has turned Israel into a key supplier to a territory governed by its bitter enemy Hamas.
Dec 22 - By Associated Press
Israel's attorney general has decided not to prosecute Israelis who participated in a Gaza-bound flotilla that was raided a year ago.

Dec 19 - By Associated Press
Gaza's prime minister left the territory Sunday on his first trip abroad since his militant Hamas movement seized power in June 2007, hoping to improve ties with Muslim countries swept up in the uprisings convulsing the Arab world.
Dec 8 - By Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press
Palestinian security officials say a car carrying three people has exploded near a public garden in Gaza City.

Nov 7 - By Diaa Hadid, Associated Press
Dozens of Palestinians who lost relatives in an Israeli military offensive in Gaza three years ago have been forced to put their compensation claims on hold, saying Israel has placed near-impossible barriers to proceeding with their cases.

Nov 5 - By Associated Press
Ireland is urging Israel to quickly release international activists who were captured while attempting to breach Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Nov 4 - By Associated Press
Gaza's Hamas rulers say 300 Palestinian prisoners freed in a recent swap for a captured Israeli soldier will take part in Islam's annual hajj pilgrimage.

Nov 4 - By Ian Deitch, Associated Press
Israel's navy boarded two small protest boats trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip on Friday and towed them to an Israeli port just north of the Palestinian territory, officials said. The military said no one was hurt.

Nov 4 - By Ian Deitch, Associated Press
Israel's navy boarded two protest boats trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip on Friday and towed them to an Israeli port just north of the Palestinian territory, officials said.

Nov 3 - By Bradley Klapper, Associated Press
U.S. citizens attempting to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza could face action for violating Israeli and American law, the Obama administration warned Thursday, as two boats sailed across the Mediterranean Sea toward the Hamas-controlled territory and a potential confrontation with Israel.

Sep 16 - By Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press
In the Palestinians' high-profile bid to seek statehood at the United Nations, half the future nation they envision has been all but forgotten. Residents of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip are watching frustrated from the sidelines as the West Bank-based leadership pushes for the long-held dream.
Sep 11 - By Associated Press
Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip say they have invited a top Libyan leader for a visit.