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Israel bars Gaza runners from Bethlehem marathon
Israel has refused to grant permission to 26 runners from the Gaza Strip to travel to the West Bank to run in the first Bethlehem marathon on April 21, officials said on Thursday. The race, which begins at the Nativity Church, is the first event of its kind in the…
Veteran leader Khaled Meshaal re-elected as head of Hamas
Veteran Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal was elected for a new term as head of the Palestinian Islamist movement, a party official said on Monday. There had been speculation that Meshaal, who is based in exile, would be forced aside by the movement’s powerful leaders in the Gaza Strip, which it…
‘Gaza rockets’ hit southern Israel during Obama visit
Two rockets fired by militants in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Thursday hit southern Israel as US President Barack Obama was visiting the country, police said. “One exploded in the back yard of a house in Sderot, causing damage and the second landed in a field,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld…
Hamas and Israel agree to cease fire
A deal to end a deadly week-long conflict between Hamas and Israel in and around the Gaza Strip was agreed on Wednesday, a senior Hamas official told AFP. “The deal has been agreed. There will be an announcement in half an hour,” the official said on condition of anonymity. UPDATE…
‘Anonymous’ crashes hundreds of Israeli websites over Gaza air assault
Online activist group Anonymous said on Saturday it had downed the websites of dozens of Israeli state agencies and a top bank in protest over the Jewish state’s deadly air assault on Gaza. The hackers said their operation “OpIsrael” had either damaged or completely erased the sites of more than…
Gaza, an impoverished and besieged sliver of land
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — The Gaza Strip, under fire from Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defence campaign unleashed on Wednesday, is an impoverished and overpopulated enclave ruled by the Islamist group Hamas. Some 1.6 million Palestinians live in the cramped territory spread over 362 square kilometres (140 square miles) along…
Israel’s Navy takes over Gaza-bound ship Estelle
Israeli troops on Saturday boarded a boat carrying pro-Palestinian MPs and activists seeking to run its naval blockade on the Gaza Strip, blocking the latest attempt to reach the enclave by sea, the military said. The operation, which the military said was concluded peacefully, ended the latest bid by activists…
Noam Chomsky makes first visit to Gaza
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — Jewish-American scholar and activist Noam Chomsky reportedly called for an end to Israel’s siege of Gaza, on his first ever visit to the Hamas-ruled enclave on Thursday. Chomsky, who was in the Gaza Strip for a conference at the Islamic University, called “to end the…
Israeli airforce strikes in Gaza following rocket attack
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — The Israeli airforce carried out a sortie in the Gaza Strip early Thursday morning, sources on both sides said, hours after rockets from the enclave hit southern Israel. Palestinian medics and security sources said the strike targeted a Hamas security site south of Gaza City.…
Palestinian man attempts self-immolation after denied money to visit sick daughter
A man upset over not being given money to visit his sick daughter in Jordan tried to immolate himself on Wednesday during one of several demonstrations against rising prices in the West Bank, Palestinian sources said. Gaza Strip resident Hussein Qahwaji, aged 37, was stopped from setting himself on fire…
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