Tag: Gaza Strip
Egypt imposes life jail penalty for cross-border tunnel use
People who dig and use cross-border tunnels in Egypt could face a maximum penalty of life in jail, state news agency MENA...
Closing of Egypt’s Rafah crossing leaves thousands of Gazans stranded
Egypt's decision to shut its border with the Gaza Strip has stranded thousands of Palestinians on the Egyptian side of the border...
Egypt clears Gaza border area to create security buffer
Egypt began clearing residents from its border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday to create a buffer zone following some of the...
Egypt partially reopens Gaza crossing after week-long closure
Egypt partially reopened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a week after it was closed in response to a...
Israeli air strike kills Palestinian militant in Gaza
An Israeli air strike killed a Palestinian member of Islamic Jihad and wounded two others in the southern Gaza Strip the militant...
Freed Shalit may find liberty tough
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was freed from five years of isolated captivity in the Gaza Strip to a joyous reception, but other...
Israel-Palestinian swap due in Sinai next week
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will be freed from five years of captivity in the Gaza Strip some time next week in exchange...
Hamas sets Gaza entry restrictions for foreigners
Hamas foreigners wishing to enter the Gaza Strip would require visas, enabling its Islamist administration to monitor aid workers and pro-Palestinian activists...
Turkey says can send warships to east Med any time
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkish warships could be sent to the Eastern Mediterranean at any time and Israel could not...
Gazans have mixed feelings over Abbas UN bid
President Mahmoud Abbas's bid to seek UN recognition of a Palestinian state is not generating much enthusiasm in the isolated Gaza Strip,...
UN experts say Israel’s blockade of Gaza illegal
Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip violates international law, a panel of human rights experts reporting to a UN body said,...
Israel troops kill Gaza gunman in incursion
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian gunman and wounded two civilians during an incursion into the southern Gaza Strip militants and medical sources...
Gaza rocket lands in Egypt, border tension simmers
A woman was injured by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip into the Egyptian town of Rafah Egypt's state news...
Israel and Hamas agree Gaza truce
Israel and the Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, agreed to a cease-fire after five days of cross-border violence, said...
Israeli air strike kills chiefs of Gaza’s PRC group
An Israeli air strike killed the leader of an armed Palestinian faction, a top lieutenant and three other members in the southern...
Jobless Gaza enters 5th year of Israeli blockade
The Gaza Strip enters its fifth year of a full Israeli blockade by land, air and sea with unemployment at 45.2...
Egypt frees Bedouins held after 2004-06 bombings
Egyptian authorities released 35 Bedouins who were detained after bombings in Sinai resorts in 2004-2006, the latest move to ease tensions in...
Israel offers to let Europe diplomats visit Gaza: official
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has invited his Italian counterpart to lead a delegation of European foreign ministers to the Hamas-controlled Gaza...
Israel is easing Gaza land blockade
Israel says it is easing a land blockade of the Gaza Strip that drew heightened international criticism after its deadly raid on...
Egypt lets Muslim Brotherhood MPs into Gaza
Egypt allowed lawmakers from the Muslim Brotherhood and other opposition groups to enter the blockaded Gaza Strip, but barred construction material contained...
Iran Revolutionary Guards ready to escort Gaza ships
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards are ready to provide a military escort to cargo ships trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, a...
Navy boards aid ship peacefully, escorts it to Israel
Israeli forces boarded the Rachel Corrie after it ignored orders not to head for Gaza, but there was no repetition of the...
Egypt verdicts political and unjust: Hezbollah
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah described as "political and unjust" the verdicts that Egypt passed on 26 men it convicted of planning...
Israel hopes Egypt completes Gaza wall by year end
Israel hopes an underground wall that Egypt is building along its border with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip to stop smuggling will be...
Egypt’s role in Gaza “cannot be denied”
Human Rights Watch has criticized Egypt for its role in cutting off people in the Gaza Strip from the rest of the...
Egypt to build anchorage to secure Gaza sea border
Egypt is building an anchorage for patrol boats on its Gaza sea border, further bolstering its defences against suspected weapons smuggling by...
Israel to build barrier along Egyptian frontier
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved plans yesterday to erect a barrier along part of Israel's border with Egypt and install advanced surveillance...
Egyptian soldier shot dead in Gaza border clashes
An Egyptian soldier was shot dead during a violent protest at the Egypt-Gaza border yesterday, an Egyptian security source said.
The source said...
Egypt police clash with Gaza relief convoy
Egyptian security forces clashed today with members of a convoy led by left-wing British politician George Galloway trying to take relief supplies...
