Hamas approves the first bank to be licensed independent of the PMA in the Gaza Strip

The Israeli government held UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Richard Falk for over 20 hours at a Tel Aviv airport, before eventually putting him on an airplane bound for Los Angeles. UN officials complained of the envoy's treatment,...

Israeli and Hamas officials both expect a renewal of hostilities when current ceasefire ends on Friday.

As reported yesterday, the Israeli government allowed 33 trucks of humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip. Allowing the international community to send food to the troubled strip is certainly a positive step toward repairing the tenuous ceasefire with Hamas, but...

Between eight and 12 Qassam rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip today, causing no injuries and doing minimal damage in the latest incident in a two week spate of attacks on both sides which have threatened to end a five-month long ceasefire between Israel and...

Last week's Israeli raid on a house in the Gaza Strip led to a barrage of missiles and retaliatory strikes from both sides. The situation seems to have calmed down since then, though a rocket yesterday fired from the strip did hit Israel: causing no damage and no...

With more than half of the Gaza Strip's 1,500,000 residents without power, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has decided to allow "limited" amounts of industrial diesel into the strip. The Israelis sealed off the strip last week after a series of clashes tested the...

Sources in the Israeli military say the next 24 hours will be crucial to determining the future of the ceasefire between the Israeli government and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, after an exchange of strikes between the two sides left the five-month long ceasefire in...