Gaza strip News
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‘Dégradé’ is an intense drama that unfolds within the confines of a Gaza hair salon while a police standoff outside threatens their already precarious safety.
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When Israeli air strikes devastated Gaza in 2014, the Rafah Zoo, located in the southern Gaza Strip, was also a casualty of war, struggling to recover from physical damage and the resulting economic freefall.
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Rabie Darduna, a father of six who lives in the Gaza Strip, was purposely duped into selling his million dollar painting by UK graffiti artist Banksy for $175. Banksy's works of art have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Israel has banned Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert from entering Gaza permanently. Israeli authorities say the ban was imposed on Gilbert for security reasons.
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A delegation of five Spanish left-wing politicians, along with eight EU delegates from Cyprus, France, Ireland and Portugal, have been denied entry into the Gaza Strip, where they wished to report on the impact of recent actions by the IDF in that area.
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Israel has announced that all its forces are to withdraw from the Gaza Strip as part of an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Hamas.
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As what they term the "spiral of violence" continues in Gaza, the Danish development ministry has said Friday that 11 million kroner ($2 million) in emergency aid will be given to Palestinian civilians trapped in the enclave.
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Four days of Israeli airstrikes on the densely populated Gaza Strip have left more than 100 people dead, and overwhelmed hospitals.
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Israel has launched an open-ended and escalating offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Air strikes and naval gunfire hit 50 sites overnight while Israeli troops have been mobilized along the Gaza border.
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Israel said Sunday that it had arrested six Jewish suspects in the slaying of a Palestinian teen abducted from an East Jerusalem street on July 2.
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Fatah and Hamas have come to an agreement about how the new Palestinian unity government will be formed along with the technocratic ministers will be appointed. Elections are scheduled to transpire six months from now.
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In what is probably a satire the Russian-language version of the Palestinian Information Center a Hamas website, reports that there is an initiative in the Gaza strip for the Gaza strip to hold a referendum on joining Russia.
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An explosive device left on board a bus in Israel could have caused significant casualties in the latest attack since Israel led a war in Gaza.
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Following a deadly attack by militants that killed 24 police, Egypt has closed the Rafah border crossing. The crossing is the only way out of the Gaza strip for most Palestinians. It is the only crossing that is not through Israel.
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While attention is focused on events in Egypt after the coup, little notice is taken of the drastic effects regime change in Egypt has had on residents of the Gaza strip.
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Harry Fear holds in an exclusive interview with Palestinian resistance icon Leila Khaled, a former aircraft hijacker and member of Palestine’s PFLP faction in Gaza. They discuss the issue of Palestinians' armed struggle with Israel.
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Egyptian police are protesting the kidnapping of seven comrades by Islamist gunmen by closing the only crossing from Egypt into the Gaza Strip for a second day.
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In a sign of increasing tensions between Egypt and Hamas the Egyptian authorities have deported seven Palestinians to the Gaza Strip.
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A striking photograph, taken by a Swedish photographer, of grieving men carrying Palestinian children's bodies through the streets of Gaza has been awarded the prestigious 2012 World Press Photo Award
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Just in case you thought it was all over, Gangham Style parodies are still a hot item on YouTube, and this one is a tongue-in-cheek version all the way from the Gaza Strip. Fun, but with a serious message too.
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No one is safe from persecution in the politically turbulent and often violent neighborhoods of the Palestinian territories, not even journalists.
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Malaysia's prime minister, Najib Razak, visited the Gaza Strip, entering through the land border with Egypt to avoid entrance through Israel.
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A little civil disobedience has sprung up on Facebook, with Israeli citizens donating their right to vote in the upcoming Israeli parliamentary elections to their Palestinian neighbors.
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Some media reports suggest an Israeli strike in a residential area, wounding four Palestinians. Others say that it was an industrial accident, but information received suggests an attack by Israel. Now with video update by journalists on the scene.
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On Tuesday, the World Bank reported that it has approved a grant of US$6.4 million to improve water and sewage services in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Development Bank will also donate US$11.14 million to the project.
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The eight day strike by Israel on Gaza not only killed 168 Palestinians, most them civilians, but has also resulted in $300 million in economic damage, the Palestinian Chamber of Commerce reports.
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One adult Palestinian was killed and at least eight teenagers have been injured when Israeli soldiers opened fire at the Gaza-Israel border on Friday. (Updated).
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While the ceasefire agreement has been reached between between Israel and Hamas is holding, Jews and Arabs living in America have weighed in.
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It was recently reported that the prominent hacker group Anonymous had leaked the personal information of 5,000 Israeli officials. Yesterday the social media of Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom was filled with pro-Palestinian messages.
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The offices of Agence France-Presse in Gaza have been hit by an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday. Fortunately no staff were hurt in the attack. However, 3 journalists were killed and 2 others injured in separate airstrikes.
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Palestinian boys watch the funerals of five militants killed during Israeli air strikes over night, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 7, 2014 Said Khatib, AFP
The Gaza Strip village of Abasan is seen from the Israeli side of the border in 2007. Moonguard/Wikimedia Commons
A Palestinian hugs his father who was wounded in an Israeli strike on a compound housing a UN school in Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, following their arrival at the Kamal Edwan hospital in Beit Lahia on July 30, 2014 Mohammed Abed, AFP
Palestinian woman having just received a package of non-food items for her family in Sudaniya camp north of Gaza Strip. Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Israeli soldiers of the 155mm artillery canons unit fire towards the Gaza Strip from their position near Israel's border with the coastal Palestinian enclave, on July 17, 2014 Menahem Kahana, AFP
Israeli soldiers march next to an army deployment area near the border between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on July 25, 2014 Gil Cohen-Magen, AFP
Gaza Strip water and sewage. YouTube
Relative of three-years-old Palestinian girl Hala Bhairi, who medics said was killed by shrapnel during an Israeli air strike on the Bureij facility, shows her body to the media at a hospital morgue in the central Gaza Strip December 24, 2013 With permission by Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Islamic Jihad, the second largest militant group in Gaza, has taken the initiative. Catholic Church
Smoke billows from a Palestinian building following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, on July 18, 2014 Thomas Coex, AFP
Max and Mona, the refugee lion cubs of Rafah in Gaza. Screengrab via TIG Media
Smoke billows from buildings following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on July 11, 2014 Mohammed Othman, AFP
Israeli soldiers work on their Merkava tanks in a deployment area near the border with the Gaza Strip on July 11, 2014 Menahem Kahana, AFP
A Palestinian woman carrying a child makes her way through debris as people inspect the remains of a house belonging to a member of the Islamist Hamas movement following an Israeli air strike on July 8, 2014 in the Gaza strip town of Khan Yunis Said Khatib, AFP
People take part in a demonstration in front of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 16, 2014, to protest against Israel's deadly bombing of Gaza Jewel Samad, AFP
Young relatives of four boys, all from the Bakr family, killed during Israeli shelling, cry during their funeral in Gaza City, on July 16, 2014 Mohammed Abed, AFP
Israeli bombardment of Gaza Screengrab / BBC
One of the areas in Gaza. mmansour
Palestinians line up to receive their delayed salaries in the cash-strapped Gaza Strip on November 9, 2018 after Israel authorised Qatar to transfer funds into the territory Said KHATIB, AFP
Palestinians who were displaced from their houses due to fierce clashes between Israel and Hamas return to check their homes in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City, on August 1, 2014 Mahmud Hams, AFP
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