Official: Hamas willing to close down tunnels

Jerusalem (CNN) -- As Jamal al-Durrah washes his son Mohammad's tombstone in a Gaza graveyard, he fears that the boy's spirit rests uneasy. The image of the father shielding his 12-year-old son in a hail of bullets, under the glare of a camera, ...

GAZA, May 21 (KUNA) -- The Israeli Army launched a raid operation on a site located in southern Syria on Tuesday in response to machine gun shooting from the Syrian side on an army patrol passing by close to the border. Radio Israel quoted a ...

This week, writing for the New York Times, Fares Akram unwittingly describes the root of the American obesity epidemic. Akram tells the story of the Gazan population choked off from the world outside its small perimeter. It is a living metaphor for ...

Fouad Yahya, a resident of the Gaza Strip, had never expected that one day some fish would treat his skin disease, a kind of therapy that he learnt about via the internet and television news. "I smiled as I inserted both of my feet in a vessel ...

During press conference with Obama in US, Turkish PM says he plans to go ahead with visit to Gaza next month despite pressure from US to delay: "I place a lot of significance on this visit in terms of

Getting a KFC home delivery in the Gaza Strip is not easy . . . there are no branches in the Palestinian territory. The only way is to import meals via tunnels linking the besieged land to Egypt. Delivery can take up to three hours These have also been used ...

THE HAGUE The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened a preliminary probe into Israels deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010 in which nine Turkish activists died to see if war crimes or crimes against humanity had been committed, the ...