Gaza, Gaza Strip News

British nationals have told Sky News they are being held in "atrocious conditions" in an Israeli prison after their boat was seized as they tried to take aid in to the Gaza Strip.

A UN human rights mission on Sunday listened as witnesses described in gruesome detail the Israeli shelling of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip during a three-week offensive at the turn of the year.

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Israel was said to have deployed the Hermes-class unmanned aerial vehicle for combat missions against Hamas in 2009.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - " A local fundraiser for Palestinian refugees in Gaza is catching criticism.

Engagement and political validation must not happen at expense of the Palestinian people.

Most members of a group of foreign peace activists seized at sea by the Israeli navy remained in custody Friday, three days after their failed attempt to run Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, relatives and supporters said.

Israel has approved construction of 50 new housing units in a West Bank settlement to absorb settlers who are to be evicted from a nearby unauthorized outpost, according to a court document obtained by The Associated Press on Monday.

Although it's not an opinion often heard within the context of public debate, there are some who argue that resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be characterized by cooperation rather than separation.

Gaza sources say a teenage girl was killed, several others were wounded following exchanges of fire between IDF troops, armed Palestinians in Strip; Army: Forces fired mortar shells at Palestinian gunmen 07.02.09, 21:55 / Israel News Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip say that a 17-year-old Palestinian girl was killed and a baby was apparently ...

Her back to the camera, a Gaza woman ashamedly unbuttons her dress before a female Israeli soldier, revealing that her breasts were removed in a failed attempt to halt cancer.

The blockade of Gaza is causing severe humanitarian hardship and the situation is getting worse every day, the head of the U.N. aid agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Wednesday.

In this Jan. 14, 2009 file photo, a Palestinian man looks up as white smoke rises from a building following an explosion caused by Israeli military operations in Gaza city.

The two Palestinian rivals Fatah and Islamic Hamas have agreed to hold a last round of talks on July 25and sign a final agreement on July 28.

The Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying foreign peace activists - including a San Rafael woman - trying to break a blockade of Gaza on Tuesday and forced it to sail to an Israeli port, the military said.

In a tearful and gruesome testimony, Salah Al-Samouni spoke of the two days of Israeli helicopter attacks in the Zaytoun area of Gaza that claimed 29 members of his family on Jan. 5 and 6.

"They hit us, they hit us with Apaches," Mr. Samouni told United Nations war crimes investigators in Gaza City on Sunday. "I found my 2-year-old daughter, she was dead.... Why?"

Six months after Israel's winter military offensive that left over 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead (10 soldiers and three civilians), the UN is holding unprecedented public hearings in Gaza City and Geneva this week into allegations that war crimes were carried out during the conflict.

Spain's National Court on Tuesday decided to shelve an investigation launched by one of its judges into a 2002 bombing by Israel on the Gaza Strip, judicial sources said.

Main Category: Public Health Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses ; Pregnancy / Obstetrics ; HIV / AIDS Article Date: 30 Jun 2009 - 3:00 PDT The government of Malawi supplies 250,000 of its HIV positive citizens with antiretrovirals free of charge, Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika said during an AIDS candlelight memorial ...

Nearly five months after Israeli naval forces seized a Lebanese boat attempting to defy the naval blockade imposed on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, another vessel said to be carrying three tons of medical supplies set sail from the port in Larnaca, Cyprus Monday morning en route to the coastal territory.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group accused rival Hamas of arresting dozens of Fatah activists in the Gaza Strip on Monday.

Photo: ADAMS REPORT: 'I believe there is a widespread desire to achieve a peace settlement.