Palestinians in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have staged a sit-in to protest the resumption of direct talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel. On August 20, the PA agreed to US calls to sit at the negotiating table with Israel at the summit on September 2 in Washington, despite vehement [...]

The Iranian president says any Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are bound to fail as long as the main problems of the Palestinian nation remain unresolved. “Tens of rounds of negotiations have been held for more than 30 years and tens of plans have been put forward but they have all failed,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in [...]

Israel has decided to deprive six ailing Palestinian prisoners of direly-needed medical care and place them under strict confinement. The Israeli prison service has chosen to move those affected from Israel’s Ramleh Prison Hospital to central prisons. The families have gathered in protest to the potential move and human rights organizations have warned that transferring [...]

Two civilians were shot Saturday morning by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) east of the town of Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, while exercising their profession of collecting scrap at devastated areas in the northern Gaza Strip. Muawiya Hassanein, head of the Health Ministry’s emergency unit, said in an exclusive statement to the Palestinian Information Center, [...]

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says Washington’s main obsession is providing security for Israel rather than establishing peace in the Middle East. “The process of peace talks shows that the fate of Palestine has not been the obsession for the West and they have only been seeking to provide security for Israel sometimes through wars [...]

The mother of the prisoner Ashraf Shafiq Hussein Al-Khatib (32 years), from the Gaza Strip, called on local and international human rights centers and all concerned with the issue of prisoners in the prisons of the occupation to intervene to know the fate of her son who was detained on 23/6/2010 from the checkpoint of [...]

All-female vessel Mariam, which was to take aid to the Israel-blockaded Gaza, remains committed to the mission though non-cooperation has delayed its departure. “The trip has not been cancelled but delayed,” one of the organizers, Samar al-Hajj, was quoted by AFP as saying. The group of more than 50 women was to set sail for [...]

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has asked US and French officials to prevent the Lebanese aid ship Mariam from sailing to the besieged Gaza strip. In phone calls to US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, US National Security Adviser James Jones, and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Saturday, the Israeli defense minister asked them [...]

Israeli naval forces have shot and injured a local fisherman during a patrol of the Gaza Strip’s coastline, Palestinian medical sources have said. The 22-year-old victim came under attack on Saturday while sailing, the Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported. Muawiya Hassanein, the director of ambulance and emergency services in Gaza, said his colleagues had transferred [...]

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has threatened Beirut with action by the Israeli navy to intercept a Lebanese ship heading to the besieged Gaza Strip. Barak claimed that the Lebanese ship Mariam is not on a humanitarian mission, describing it as a provocative move. He also alleged that the ship’s journey has been organized by [...]

Head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili has called for new measures to lift the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip. “There is need for a new move in defense of the innocent people of Gaza and to lift the siege of the strip,” Jalili’s office quoted him on Friday as saying. Speaking [...]

IRI Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili urged visiting Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jasim bin Jabr al-Thani Friday that regional cooperation was essential at the current juncture. He noted that the Zionist regime and enemies of the region are opposing to any cooperation between the regional states. “Our resistance in [...]

The United Nations urges Israel to put an end to its restrictive measures imposed on the impoverished Gaza Strip for more than three years. In a joint study released Thursday, the World Food Program and the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the Israeli measures have caused painful reality to Gaza population. “This [...]

A Lebanese aid ship will kick off its journey to the Gaza Strip on Sunday to deliver humanitarian relief to the besieged people of Gaza. The ship Mariam is scheduled to leave Lebanon’s northern port of Tripoli for Cyprus on Sunday, an organizer said Thursday. Since Lebanon is still technically at war with Israel, the [...]

An Arab Israeli politician speaks out against an alleged theft by the Israeli forces of the Flotilla activists’ personal belongings. Hanin Zuabi, who is member of the Israeli parliament, Knesset, joined the humanitarian campaign to break Israel’s three years old siege of the Gaza Strip under the banner of Freedom Flotilla. Israeli commandos stormed the [...]

An Algerian aid ship carrying 60 containers of medical supplies is ready to set sail to the Gaza Strip, WAFA Palestinian news agency reported Thursday. Sources said that the campaigns was organized by the Algerian Union of Muslim Scholars, national characters, businessmen, NGOs and Algerian citizens from all over Algeria. The humanitarian aid will include [...]

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) used artillery to shell Palestinian houses east of Abasan to the east of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. He added that the IOF pounding did not cause human casualties but only material damage as most shelled houses were deserted after being partially destroyed by the IOF in [...]

Palestinians have repelled an Israeli attack in which several tanks crossed into southern parts of the Gaza Strip and an Israeli soldier pierced through the bordering security fence. According to Hamas security officials, six Israeli tanks crossed into the area and one of them fired shells at a house near the town of Khan Yunis [...]

The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees has warned that it would close schools and clinics in the Gaza Strip due to lack of funds. UNRWA spokesperson Adnan Abu Hasna said on Monday that the agency was suffering from an 84-million-dollar budget deficit. “This will force UNRWA to take steps towards closing [...]

A new Viva Palestina aid convoy will leave for the besieged Gaza Strip on September 18, a member of the organizing committee of the aid group has announced. In a written article published by the Morning Star, George Galloway says the convoy will leave in three coordinated legs to deliver aid to Gaza from London, [...]