GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- An explosive device blew up near a major square in Gaza City late Sunday, security officials said. The device exploded in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, with no injuries reported. Police arrived at the scene and are investigating the incident. The circumstances behind the explosion are unclear. A series of explosions have rocked Gaza over the past month. On April 6, an explosive device was set off near the al-Radwan mosque in Sheikh Radwan. Weeks later, an explosive device blew up near the Palestinian cabinet's headquarters in western Gaza City. On April 18, two explosions went off in Gaza Citycenter late Saturday causing no injuries. more

An explosive device was set off near the al-Radwan mosque in the Sheikh Radwan area in northern Gaza City late Monday. Witnesses told Ma'an that the sound of an explosion was heard in the area surrounding the mosque. No injuries were reported. Teams from the Ministry of Interior rushed to the area as soon as they were informed on the incident. Gaza has been rocked by a series of violent incidents in recent months, the majority involving attacks on the property of Fatah officials in the Hamas-dominated region. more

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian was injured late Friday in an explosion that occurred near the French Cultural Center in western Gaza City. Gaza police spokesman Ayman al-Batneiji told Ma'an that the explosion injured one Palestinian. Al-Batneiji added that the Gaza police, explosives engineering and the criminal investigations department arrived to the area and opened an investigation into the incident. It was the second explosion that occurred at the same site in less than a month. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the attack, saying that "the side responsible for such a criminal action does not belong to Palestinians as culture is a major part of the Palestinian identity." The statement added that those responsible for the explosions are "ignorant and do not appreciate the role of culture in the Palestinian national fight." more

Israeli airstrikes destroyed two residential housing towers in Gaza City on Tuesday as two Palestinians were killed in overnight airstrikes. Muhammad Muin Abu Ajwa and Hasan Omar al-Sawwaf were killed in airstrikes targeting central Gaza City. Another strike on the Nasser neighborhood hit a 16-storey mixed-use complex known as "Little Italy", causing its complete collapse, witnesses said. Witnesses said that F16s fired at least six rockets at the tower block, in which there were 60 apartments and a commercial complex including dozens of shops, completely destroying it. They said residents had fled the building after the Israeli army sent them pre-recorded warning messages. "The army told them to leave immediately and they all ran out into the street to find shelter," one told AFP. Shortly afterwards, warplanes fired on the 14-storey al-Basha building in the western Rimal neighborhood, causing massive damage and wounding another 15 people, witnesses and medi...

Thousands of Palestinians fled their homes in neighbourhoods of eastern Gaza City on Tuesday, carrying bags of clothes, pillows and mattresses after renewed Israeli air strikes, witnesses said. An AFP reporter saw hundreds of Palestinians streaming out of Shejaiya, one of the areas worst affected by more than a month of Israeli offensive. more

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Gaza Strip following the collapse of a ceasefire earlier in the day. Palestinian medical sources said that paramedic Atef Zamili was killed in an airstrike on his vehicle and that seven passengers were wounded. Zamili's death brings to 16 the number of health workers who have been killed in Israeli strikes since the beginning of the assault 25 days ago. This is third 13th ambulance to be targeted in an Israeli attack, according to the ministry of health. Meanwhile, Israeli forces widened their assault across the Gaza Strip on Friday afternoon, launching further ground movements in Shujaiyya in eastern Gaza City, Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, and Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The expansion of the invasion comes after Israel said one of its soldiers was captured during an attack on its military position east of Rafah inside the Gaza Strip. more

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces killed at least 100 Palestinians on Sunday including 66 in a single neighborhood of Gaza City, bringing the 13-day death toll to 437. The assault on Gaza -- which has also left 18 Israels dead -- is the largest and deadliest attack on the besieged coastal enclave since 2008. More than 200 Palestinians have died since the ground invasion began on Thursday. On Sunday, 66 bodies were recovered from the Shujaiyya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, in what medical authorities called a "massacre" and a level of violence not seen before in the ongoing conflict. At least 500 Palestinians were injured in Israeli attacks on Wednesday, with the total surpassing 3,000 as Gazan hospitals struggled to cope with the surge and facing shortages of medical supplies, doctors, and hospital beds. Hospitals were also facing continuous power cuts, as electricity has fallen by more than 70 percent as a result of Israeli shelling and the siege itself, whi...

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) – On the 13th day of the ongoing military offensive against the Gaza Strip, residents say invading Israeli forces committed "a new massacre" in the Shujaiyya neighborhood of Gaza City. At least 40 people have been killed and hundreds have been injured in the eastern neighborhood, medics said Sunday. The death toll is expected to rise as more bodies are uncovered. Medical sources said seven Palestinians were killed in other areas across the coastal enclave. Spokesman of the Palestinian ministry of health Ashraf al-Qidra said rescue teams evacuated at least 40 dead bodies from destroyed houses. More than 200 injured people were taken to al-Shifa Hospital. Medical sources identified some of the victims in Shujaiyya as Ahmad Ishaq Ramlawi, Marwah Suleiman al-Sirsawi, Raed Mansour Nayfah, Osama Ribhi Ayyad and Ahid Mousa al-Sirsik. Among the victims was photojournalist Khalid Hamid and paramedic Fuad Jabir. Dozens of victims in Shujaiyya haven't be...

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Electricity was disconnected in major areas in Gaza City after heavy Israeli strikes on the al-Shujaiyya neighborhood, the electric company said Friday. Public relations officer at the electricity company Jamal al-Dredsawi said the two main electricity supply lines coming from Israel were damaged. Al-Dresdsawi told Ma’an that two out of three lines were damaged, which means 75 percent of the city is without electricity. He added that repairs would be delayed until Saturday because of the ongoing strikes on the area. more

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- An Israeli tank on Saturday fired shells at an open area in Gaza City, locals said. Witnesses told Ma'an that Israeli tanks were stationed along the border facing the city's Shujaiyya neighborhood, and that one fired a shell into a Palestinian field. No injuries were reported. more

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Arsonists set fire to the main gates of a Christian school in Gaza City on Saturday, witnesses said. Unidentified assailants set fire to the entrance of the Holy Family School in the early hours of Saturday, with no injuries reported. The school was closed Saturday and parents were told to take their children home. more

See the casualty list at end of clipping (International Middle East Media Center): As Israel continued the bombardment of the Gaza Strip since Thursday, Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported that the number of slain residents arrived to 15, while more than 40 others, were wounded in the last 24 hours of military escalation. The sources stated that the Israeli Air Force fired a missile at a motorcycle driving in Ath-Thaltheen Street, in Gaza City, killing three residents, including a child. Their bodies were severely mutilated. Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesperson of the Higher Committee of Medical and Emergency Services in Gaza, reported that the child was only two years old, and that one woman is among the injured. The casualties were identified as Dr. Monther Qreiqe’ and his brother Mo’taz of the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, and a two-year-old child identified as Islam. They were transporting Islam to a local hospital as he needed urgent med...

From JPost The map, which debuted this week, is the brainchild of students and lecturers at the Geography Department of the city’s University College of Applied Sciences (UCAS). Besides documenting its archaeological and tourist sites, the map includes practical information such as hospitals and government buildings. Funded by the Bank of Palestine, the English-language map is handed out free of charge. "We decided to give Gaza its due," Amir Shurrab, a lecturer at UCAS's Information Technology Department and head of Midad, the company that implemented the mapping project, told The Media Line. "Gaza is the world's fourth-most-ancient city. This project was our dream and aspiration, which we finally realized." Gaza boasts unique archeological sites dating back millennia. The tomb of Prophet Muhammad's grandfather Hashem and the recently unearthed Hellenistic site of Tel Al-Rafah near the Egyptian border, where 1,300 silver coins were discovered, are only ...

From the BBC A mysterious explosion has gone off in Gaza City near a U.N. compound and a key base of the ruling Hamas movement's feared intelligence service. Security officials say no one was hurt in the blast, which tore a 2-meter (6-foot) wide hole through a wall surrounding the U.N. compound. They said it was not clear what the target was. more

Gaza Strip, ( Pal Telegraph )- A Palestinian citizens was injured Sunday as Israeli military forces opened fire at him in the east of al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza city. Adham Abu Silmya, medical emergency spokesman, said that the man was hit in his right leg by Israeli gunfire near Malaka juncture in al-Zeitoun neighborhood . He added that medical teams evacuated the man to Al-Shifaa hospital in Gaza city to receive medication; his health condition was described as moderate. more

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A witness says Israeli troops have fired two tank shells and several rounds from machine guns as Palestinian marchers approached Gaza's border with Israel. Medics say three people were wounded by gunfire. A witness says the tank shells landed in an empty field several hundred yards (meters) from the marchers. more

More civilians killed in Gaza, another useless IDF inquiry set up. Several mortars and a rocket have been fired from the Strip today resulting in no casualties. Palestinian sources said four people were killed Tuesday afternoon from Israeli artillery fire towards Gaza City's Tufah neighborhood. Two youths, aged 11 and 16, were among the victims, according to the sources. Eyewitnesses said one of the IDF shells landed at the entrance of a home in Tufah, killing four people and injuring five others. Among those killed were three members of the same family. more

Abbas claims he is ready to travel to Gaza to seal a national unity deal with Hamas, as pressure mounts on leaders. RAMALLAH: Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in major West Bank cities and in Gaza Strip on Tuesday, calling for unity between the Fatah-controlled West Bank and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The demonstrators waved the flag of Palestine and shouted with slogans for the restoration of national unity and chanted "People want to end division!" Hisham Dwaikat, one of the coordinators of the “March 15 Youth Movement” told Arab News that they will set up tents in Ramallah’s Al-Manara square “to pressure Fatah and Hamas to end their internal split.” Dwaikat added that the organized that rallies in West Bank and Gaza Strip “for the sake of restoring unity on the way towards liberation.” He added that the campaign to forge Palestinian unity was launched several weeks ago by youth groups on Facebook and other social networking sites. more

Gaza – Ma'an – Israeli forces operating east of the Ash-Shuja'iyeh neighborhood of Gaza City shot and wounded a Palestinian man, medics in the Ash-Shifa Hospital said. Muawiya Hassanein, head of emergency and ambulance services in Gaza, said the unidentified man was moderately injured. more

Three Palestinian civilians sustained wounds after the Israeli military opened fire east of Gaza City on Monday at midday. Local sources report that three civilians sustained moderate wounds when Israeli soldiers at the Al Mintar crossing of the Gaza-Israeli border opened fire at them. Medical sources announced that the three were moved to a nearby hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, an armed Palestinian group announced on Monday that its fighters clashed with Israeli military forces by the southern Gaza-Israeli border. The group, Abu Ali Mustafa, a leftist group, said no injures were reported among its fighters. Thanks to the International Middle East Media Center Meanwhile settlers opened fire on farmers near Nablus on Monday: Israeli settlers open fire at farmers near Nablus: youth injured