Israeli army wounds seven Palestinians in Gaza

The Israeli army fired into the Gaza Strip on Thursday, injuring seven Palestinians in an incident that broke a relative lull in the coastal enclave, Palestinian and Israeli sources said. (more…)

Israel kills 20 year old Palestinian over land grab protest

A 20-year-old man was killed and another 51 people injured by Israeli fire on Friday, as thousands rallied across the West Bank and Gaza to mark Land Day, medical sources said.

Mahmud Zakut, 20, was killed in Beit Hanun in an area near the border fence with Israel, emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Selmiya said. (more…)

Israelis and Palestinians agree to ceasefire mediated by Egypt

A ceasefire has been agreed between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza after four days of deadly clashes, an Egyptian official says. A Hamas official later confirmed that the truce had been agreed. At least 25 Palestinians have died in Israeli air strikes since Friday, reports say. (more…)

Over 23 Palestinians killed as Israeli strike on Gaza continues

A Palestinian man and his daughter have been killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza, medics said. It is the fourth day of hostilities in which 23 Palestinians have been killed and more than 70 wounded.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue targeting rocket-firing militants for “as long as necessary”. (more…)

EU expresses concern over Israeli-Palestinian violence in Gaza

The European Union on Saturday expressed concern at the worst Israeli-Palestinian violence in three years which left 14 Palestinians dead, calling on both sides to restore calm. (more…)

Israel kills Palestinian militants in Gaza air strike

An Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip killed the head of the Popular Resistance Committees militant group Friday, the movement said.

The PRC said General Secretary Zohair al-Qaisi was one of two Palestinians killed in the strike, along with fellow-member Mahmud Halani, hours after Palestinians fired mortar rounds into Israel. (more…)

Gaza’s Hamas PM voices support for Syria protesters

CAIRO – Gaza premier Ismail Haniya hailed on Friday the “heroic” Syrian struggle for democracy during a rally at Cairo’s Al-Azhar mosque, in a departure from the Islamists’ refusal to criticise Damascus.

“I salute all the people of the Arab Spring, or rather the Islamic Winter,” Haniya told several thousand cheering people who attended a rally in support of the Palestinians and Syrians. (more…)

Gaza protesters tell Assad: Go to hell, we don’t need killers

Palestinians are demonstrating in Gaza City in solidarity with Syrian anti-government protesters.

The group mostly students hoisted Palestinian and Syrian flags and burned images of President Bashar Assad .They shouted “Bashar go to hell” …”leave us Palestinians alone we have enough killers “…we don’t need you. (more…)

Hamas Strongman In Gaza Rejects Unity Deal

A rare public rift broke open Sunday in the usually tightly disciplined Islamic movement Hamas over a reconciliation deal that would require it to relinquish key areas of control in the Gaza Strip. (more…)

Hamas assaults Shi’ite worshippers in Gaza , report

Masked Hamas police beat and detained members of the Gaza Strip’s tiny Shiite community during a religious commemoration last week, a follower and local rights groups said Tuesday, accusing their Islamist rulers of religious intolerance. (more…)