Gaza

Gaza

Israel vows Islamic Jihad 'will pay price' as jets flatten Gaza homes

Israeli warplanes stepped up strikes on Saturday with hits on four residential buildings in Gaza City, all locations apparently linked to Islamic Jihad militants.

06/08/2022

Gaza

Israel and Gaza militants exchange fire in second day of violence

Palestinian militants fired rockets into southern Israel while Israeli planes struck Gaza again on Saturday, following the previous day's Israeli strikes which killed at least 10 people.

05/08/2022

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Rescuers rush to Gaza building hit by Israeli air strikes

The Israeli army said on Friday it had launched air strikes in central Gaza City

05/08/2022

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Meet the surfers who are making waves in the Gaza Strip

In partnership with Media City

"We stay at the sea because it is where we can experience a taste of freedom and happiness."

01/08/2022

Gaza

Israel strikes Gaza Strip hours after US President Biden's visit

The strike on Saturday hit a Hamas weapons manufacturing facility, IDF claimed.

16/07/2022

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Gaza surfers ride the waves in 'first' Palestinian event

Their surfboards may be old, but that doesn't stop these young Gazans from riding the waves.

23/06/2022

Green News

'The sea is clean': People in Gaza finally swim on their beaches again

"We couldn't come before because the sea was polluted and if we did, our children used to come back home with viruses and skin diseases," says one Gazan local.

09/06/2022

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Palestinians gather ahead of Quds (Jerusalem) day in Gaza

Palestinians in Gaza City gather a day earlier to mark the yearly al-Quds (Jerusalem) day which falls on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan.

29/04/2022

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Meet the Gazan clowns making children laugh this Ramadan

In partnership with Media City

"We make the children so happy that they forget the conflict, bombings and destruction."

25/04/2022

Gaza

Unemployment in Gaza sees textile workers team up with Israeli firms

A new chapter in the Palestinian-Israeli relationship brings together the textile workers in Gaza — where the unemployment rate is estimated to be around 55 per cent — and Israeli companies in need of cheap clothes manufacturers.

27/01/2022

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Meet the rock band shining a light on the people of Gaza's struggles

In partnership with Media City

“Rock music worldwide is something that has been always stereotyped: people who scream. That is not rock music, rock music is a philosophy.”

24/01/2022

Tech News

School kids in Gaza City are getting lessons from a robot teacher

The bot assistant is the “first of its kind” in the Palestinian enclave which has been under blockade since 2007.

03/12/2021

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Gazan engineers create firefighting robot from scrap

Gazan engineers use a robot they’ve created from auto parts and other trash to handle dangerous remnants of war and extinguish fire, as they face shortage of raw materials due to the Israeli blockade.

28/08/2021

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Activists in Gaza and far-right Israelis march

Activists in Gaza fire incendiary balloons towards Israel Several arrested ahead of right-wing Jerusalem march

15/06/2021

Gaza

Children share their experiences of the recent Israel-Gaza violence

"The houses were falling down on people," said one 11-year-old. "We lost hope. Some people ran away and the paramedics told us to run to the hospital."

31/05/2021

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Gazans head to the beach as ceasefire holds

Families flocked to Gaza's beaches on Sunday after spending almost two weeks largely confined to their homes during the latest war between Israel and the territory's militant Hamas rulers.

31/05/2021

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The show must go on! Puppeteers pick up the pieces of destroyed theatre in Gaza

Two weeks after a ceasefire brought an end to 11 days of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, Nabil al-Khatib, Palestinian artist and founder of Beit al-Fann (the house of art) salvages puppets from his theatre studio in Gaza City to keep bringing smiles to the faces of Palestinian children.

31/05/2021

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Gaza beaches packed as Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds

In Gaza, a week since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was announced, many residents come out to enjoy the beaches.

29/05/2021

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Fragile peace holds in Gaza but tensions with Israel remain

On Friday protesters hurled stones at Israeli security forces amid clashes in the village of Baita, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry claimed a 26-year-old man was killed and two more injured by live fire.

29/05/2021

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Palestinians dressed as clowns entertain children in Gaza

Palestinians dressed as clowns entertain children amid the ruins of a building destroyed during the recent Israeli bombing in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

27/05/2021

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Palestinian barber resumes work amid ruins of destroyed Gaza shop

Palestinian barber Hashem al-Jarousha is determined to keep practising his profession and hobby amid the ruins of his shop in Gaza City which was destroyed by Israeli strikes.

26/05/2021

Gaza

EU boosts humanitarian assistance for Palestinians to €34 million

In a statement published on Tuesday, EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič said that "following the announcement of a ceasefire, urgent humanitarian access is now vital, to relieve the suffering of the many innocent victims".

25/05/2021

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Israeli strike hits Gaza residential apartment

Israeli strikes hit a residential apartment building in Gaza City and destroy a Hamas-run women association centre

19/05/2021

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Palestinian firemen try to extinguish huge fire at mattress factory east of Jabalia

Palestinian firefighters try to extinguish a huge fire at the Foamco mattress factory east of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip.

17/05/2021

Gaza

Diplomacy failing to prevent Israel-Gaza conflict from escalating

The violence continues, with eight children and two adults killed on Saturday in Gaza and one Israeli man killed in a Hamas rocket attack on the city of Ramat Gan.

15/05/2021

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Gaza journalist reports live when building is hit

An Israeli airstrike that toppled a high-rise building in central Gaza City startled a Gaza-based journalist as she was reporting for Al Jazeera.

13/05/2021