US claims father illegally moved kids to Gaza

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.

In Gaza zoo, stuffed animals join live ones

There is an afterlife for animals at the Khan Younis zoo in the impoverished Gaza Strip.

UN rights office says Gaza executions unlawful

The U.N.'s human rights office says three men recently sentenced to death in the Palestinian territory of Gaza were executed unlawfully.

Gaza Hamas rulers hang 3 accused of spying, murder

Gaza's Hamas rulers say they have executed three men in dawn hangings.

Israeli fuel entering Gaza to ease power crisis

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.

Swedish activists plan new Gaza convoy this year

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.

Hamas holds dozens of drivers in Gaza power crisis

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,

Israel-Gaza truce mostly observed

Worst Gaza flare-up in months kills 14, Palestinians say

UN: Gaza exports long way off despite trial

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.

Gaza marathon draws hundreds in rainy weather

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.

Palestinian rift healed? Abbas to head government

Hamas sentences Palestinian to death

A Hamas official in Gaza says the militant group has sentenced a local Palestinian to death for collaborating with Israel.

Gaza and Israel: Unlikely trade partners

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.

Israel drops case against flotilla participants

Israel's attorney general has decided not to prosecute Israelis who participated in a Gaza-bound flotilla that was raided a year ago.

Gaza's Hamas leader launches Muslim world trip

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.

Palestinian security reports car explosion in Gaza

Palestinian security officials say a car carrying three people has exploded near a public garden in Gaza City.

AP Exclusive: Palestinians face steep court fees

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.

Ireland calls on Israel to free activists

Ireland is urging Israel to quickly release international activists who were captured while attempting to breach Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.

Palestinians freed in deal with Israel go to hajj

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.

Israeli navy boards 2 protest boats bound for Gaza

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.

Israeli navy boards 2 protest boats bound for Gaza

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.

US warns activists trying to break Gaza blockade

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.

Palestinians seek statehood, but Gaza is forgotten

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.

Hamas invites Libyan leader for Gaza visit

Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip say they have invited a top Libyan leader for a visit.

Reports from the NY Times and Reuters confirm that the Muslim Brotherhood’s late entry “replacement” candidate, Mohammed Morsi, and a rival Muslim Brotherhood member candidate, Aboul Fotouh, garnered first and third place, 25% and 20% of the vote tally, respec …

Israel is corrupting our courts as they have corrupted our Legislative Branch.

Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian philosopher Murad Wahba, which aired on Sada Al-Balad TV on April 20, 2012: Murad Wahba: Democracy has four components. Interviewer: Where does Egypt stand with regard to these four components? Murad Wahba: We're not even  …

Most of the victims were farmers...

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told an international pro-Palestinian delegation on Friday that there is no future for Israel "on the land of Palestine," Gaza news portal Al-Resalah reported.Haniyeh was speaking at a meeting in Gaza with delegates from several countries inc …

Israeli forces opened fire near the Karni border crossing in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources reported on Thursday, adding that eight civilians were wounded, two of them seriously. According to Army Radio, the soldiers opened fire at armed Palestinians approachi …

Israel may seem like Goliath vis-à-vis the Palestinians, but in a regional context it is David. Gaza is host to 10,000 rockets, many of which can hit Tel Aviv, and Hezbollah in Lebanon has 50,000 missiles that place all of Israel within range. Throughout the Middle East, …

Israeli forces, protesters clash at Nakba Day events

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics came out with its annual "nakba" report where it tries to twist numbers to make Israel look as bad as possible. Just a quick glance through it shows a number of lies as well as more evidence that the PA has no real interest in peace …

Hamas security forces wearing masks and wielding batons and rifle butts forcibly "dissolved" a protest against the "suppression of freedom" in Gaza.Thursday's rally was staged by Gaza residents and supporters from Egypt decrying the Hamas administration's systemic repression of …

So - now it's out in the open. This map of "Palestine" does not include Israel. And what is left to talk about?  

Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu: "Black South Africans and others around the world have seen the 2010 Human Rights Watch report which "describes the two-tier system of laws, rules, and services that Israel operates for the two populations in areas in the West Bank under …

The IDF should no longer be the only body to investigate its own conduct when it is charged with ostensible war crimes or various human rights violations, especially against Palestinians. That is expected to be the main conclusion of the Turkel Committee, which is likely to  …

The following are reactions to the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces on May 2, 2011, from Middle East television and jihadi websites. The clips are from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Lebanon, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Gaza, and the U.K.  …

Catching up with the West. Now only 150 years behind.

Israel's military prosecution announced Tuesday that no legal steps will be taken against those responsible for the killing of 21 members of the Samouni family during the 2009 Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. A letter was received by the human rights group B'Tselem from Major  …

Sinai is unhinged; Egypt is worsening; Syria is unstable, and oh yes, there's Iran too

From MEMRI, an Arabic interview with someone who gets it exactly right:

Colonel Nabi Mer'ei from Horfish was the first Druze to ever joinIsrael’s paratroopers; he went on to become a revered officer at the Gaza Brigade and educated generations of soldiers and commanders.  Mer’ei was killed 16 years ago during an operation  …

IDF ready to attack Tehran’s nuclear facilities if needed, Chief of Staff Benny Gantz says; military constantly engaged in covert, high-risk operations beyond Israel’s borders, he says (...)

Hamas would view any future agreement between the Palestinian Authority and Israel not as a permanent peace treaty but rather as a truce, a senior Hamas official told a Jewish newspaper.

Navi Pillay says three men sentenced to death recently didn't have regular access to lawyers; hangings weren't approved by Abbas, as required by law

Some 1,600 Palestinians in Israeli prisons will go on an open-ended hunger strike starting April 17, the Palestinian Authority’s minister for prisoner affairs, Issa Qaraqi, announced Saturday. The prisoners are demanding an end to administrative detentions and solitar …

IOF conducted 52 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 3 limited ones into the Gaza Strip.   IOF arrested 32 Palestinians, including 6 children, in the West Bank.A house was damaged and some jewelry was lost during house raids.

Calling on the government to rebuild the demolished Homesh settlement, the Samaria Regional Council and the Samaria Citizen’s Council have planned a festive Passover event amid its ruins on Tuesday. Israel demolished Homesh in 2005, along with three other Samaria sett …