Tag: Gaza Strip
Qatar, Egypt agree to supply fuel, basic building materials to Gaza Strip
Qatar and Egypt have signed agreements “to supply fuel and basic building materials for the Gaza Strip,” Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi made the announcement during...
J Street joins anti-Israel groups in support of Gaza amendment to defense bill
J Street has joined with several dozen largely anti-Israel groups, including some that support the BDS movement, in calling for the U.S. Senate to adopt the Gaza amendment as part of the 2022 National...
Hamas: If Israel doesn’t meet our demands, its captives won’t see the light of...
Deputy Hamas chief in Gaza Khalil al-Hayya told Al-Jazeera on Monday that if Israel doesn’t pay the price of an alleged prisoner-exchange deal in the making, “its captives won’t see the light of day.”
Al-Hayya’s interview with...
Report: Israel complied with laws of war, minimized casualties during Gaza conflict
A new report from JINSA, a Jewish security think tank, finds that the Israel Defense Forces complied with the laws of war and even went to great lengths to minimize civilian casualties during the...
Israel to allow 3,000 more work permits for Palestinians from Gaza Strip
Israel announced on Wednesday that it is issuing work permits for 3,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to enter the country, bringing the total to 10,000.
COGAT, the Israeli defense body that controls Palestinian civil...
Gantz, IDF approve addition of 4,000 Palestinians to Population Registry
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz directed Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alyan, the Israel Defense Forces’ Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), to approve the registration of some 4,000 Palestinians to the Palestinian Population...
Qatar restarts cash payments to Palestinians in Gaza, using UN credit cards
Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip began receiving payments on Thursday after Israel agreed to a new distribution system that includes the involvement of the United Nations.
Qatari envoy Mohammed al-Emadi said that payments of...
Thousands of Gazans apply for work in Israel as border restrictions ease
Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza applied on Wednesday to get permits to work in Israel.
“There is no work in the Gaza Strip,” said Fathi Abu Nur, a 40-year-old unemployed man, told AFP.
Israel has resumed allowing...
The delusion of reaching an ‘arrangement’ with Hamas
The death of Israeli Border Police officer Bar-El Hadaria Shmueli, who was shot in the head during a riot on the Gaza-Israel border on Aug. 21, is not merely the reflection of a tactical...
Palestinian terror factions: IDF shooting of Gaza suspect crosses ‘all red lines’
The joint control room in Gaza that represents several terrorist factions said the shooting of a Palestinian suspect by the Israel Defense Forces on Thursday represented a “crossing of all red lines, which will...