Palestinians suffering

Source : Al Jazeera and agencies | 05 Apr 2012

The International Criminal Court has halted a Palestinian Authority bid to clear the way for the permanent war crimes tribunal to investigate an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip that began in December 2008.

By Nidal al-Mughrabi | Reuters | Gaza | 01 Apr 2012

A Palestinian woman held by Israel without charge was deported to the Gaza Strip on Sunday under a deal that ended her 44-day hunger strike.

Hana Shalabi of the Islamic Jihad militant group was put into so-called "administrative detention" on February 16. An Israeli military official said that in return for her release from jail, she had agreed to three years' exile in the Gaza Strip.

By Reuters | Jerusalem | 30 Mar 2012

Israeli security forces fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades to break up groups of Palestinian stone-throwers yesterday as annual Land Day rallies turned violent.

Medics in the Gaza Strip said the Israelis also used live fire to prevent protesters from nearing the frontier wall, seriously wounding one man.

By Lawahez Jabari | NBC News Producer | Ramallah | 30 Mar 2012

Palestinian organizers are calling for massive demonstrations on Friday to mark Land Day, an annual event that commemorates the killing of six Arabs who were protesting Israeli land policies on March 30, 1976.

Source : Al Arabiya | Cairo | 21 Mar 2012

The Muslim Brotherhood aims to open the Egyptian border with Israel-besieged Gaza to commerce, a shift that would transform life for Palestinians there but which is hitting resistance from Egyptian authorities reluctant to help ease the blockade.

The biggest party in Egypt's new parliament, the Islamists are not yet in government but have been seeking ways to ease the pain of bans imposed by Israel and Egypt.

Source : Al Arabiya | Gaza | 21 Mar 2012

Power outage is one of the main problems facing residents of Gaza since Israel bombed the power generators that provide the strip with electricity five years ago.

Throughout this time, Gazans have been involved in constant attempts to find alternatives to the dysfunctional Electricity Company. Very few succeeded in producing results and one of them is an inventor who managed to create a home-made electric system.

By Jihan Abdalla | Reuters | West Bank | 19 Mar 2012

Jewish settlers have seized dozens of natural springs in the occupied West Bank, barring Palestinians or limiting their access to scarce water sources, a United Nations report said on Monday.

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it had surveyed 530 springs in the West Bank and found that 30, mostly in areas where Israel retains military control, were taken over by the settlers.

Source : Al Arabiya | Gaza | 20 Mar 2012

The Palestinian Authority has asked the United Nations Human Rights Council to conduct a formal inquiry into the impact of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki said on Monday.

The probe should look into “attempts to confiscate land and settler violence along with the impact of settlement expansion on Palestinian life and basic human rights,” he said, adding that the proposal for an inquiry was formally tabled on Friday.

By Ibrahim Bapzak | AP | Gaza | 12 Mar 2012

Israeli airstrikes killed two Palestinian militants and a schoolboy in the Gaza Strip on Monday as Palestinian rocket squads barraged southern Israel, in escalating fighting that has defied international truce efforts.

Source : Agencies | 10 Mar 2012

Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip killed 12 Palestinians on Friday, in one of the worst flare-ups along the restive border in months, Hamas officials said.

The Israeli military said it had launched air strikes in response to more than 30 rockets fired at Israel by militants. It added the strikes had also been launched to thwart a plan by militants to attack Israel from across the border with Egypt.