RAFAH, Palestine: The opening of the Palestinians’ first airport, in the presence of U.S. President Bill Clinton, was a symbol of the hopes for independence...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: With hundreds of empty plastic bottles collected from the shores of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, fisherman Muath Abu Zeid has...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: The two leading Palestinian factions missed another deadline Thursday to implement a reconciliation deal, potentially burying the...
RAMALLAH, Palestine: Leading Palestinian political factions are to gather Tuesday in Cairo to push ahead with reconciliation efforts, despite fundamental...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Hamas has passed the first test of a reconciliation agreement by giving up control of the Gaza Strip’s borders, but sterner challenges...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: When Hamas announced this week it would accept demands from rivals Fatah in a bid for Palestinian reconciliation, it was the latest in...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: The death of a little boy after swimming in polluted seawater has put the spotlight on Gaza’s pollution crisis and the human...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Hamas this week marks 10 years since taking power in Gaza with the Palestinian enclave at risk of conflict and facing electricity...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Yahya Sinwar, the new leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, is a top commander in the Islamist movement’s armed wing with decades of...
KHAN YUNIS, Palestinian Territories: Dutch artist Marjan Teeuwen walks past a column formed from rubble to show off her latest creation, a barren house in the...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: The head of the Gaza Strip’s first Coca-Cola plant said Thursday he hoped the venture would send a “message to investors” that the...
GAZA CITY, Occupied territories: Mobbed by fans, Adel Meshoukhi is the kind of singer that perhaps only Gaza could produce – an internet sensation who depends...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: As if from nowhere, a dozen young people surge out of a tunnel, Kalashnikov assault rifles in hand, to launch a surprise assault on a...
KHAN YOUNES, Palestine: Azza al-Najjar struggles in vain to keep her 2-year-old warm by wrapping him in blankets in her prefabricated metal home as a winter...
GAZA CITY: A local Salafist leader was shot dead in Gaza City Tuesday during a confrontation with Hamas security forces as tensions mounted between the...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: With Gaza’s supply of drinking water expected to dry up by 2020, a Palestinian engineer is pioneering a machine to make seawater potable...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: A year after rival Palestinian nationalist movements Hamas and Fatah agreed to end their bitter divisions, the unity deal they signed...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: In a tunnel dug deep underneath the besieged Gaza Strip, masked gunmen from Islamic Jihad ferry rockets and mortars back and forth,...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: A garland in hand, 11-year-old Sara decorates the family Christmas tree with her parents. But this year, the young Gazan will be...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Barely four months after a bloody conflict battered Gaza, experts warn that a new war could be in the offing if reconstruction is not...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Everywhere you turn, walls in the Gaza Strip are covered with paint – brightly colored slogans, political portraits and prose.For youth...
GAZA CITY: The top EU diplomat appealed Saturday for the establishment of a Palestinian state as the killing of a young Arab-Israeli by police fanned tensions...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Among the mountains of rubble littering Gaza after a deadly summer war, clay outlines emerge of men, women and children with a story to...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Surrounded by the rubble of a deadly war with Israel, Gazans marked a somber Eid al-Adha festival Saturday with prayers and visits to...