GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City on Tuesday afternoon killed two children, and at least six others, bringing the day's death toll to 15. An airstrike on Kishku street in the Zaitoun neighborhood killed two children, medics said. At least six Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on two cars in Gaza City's Sabra neighborhood. Three others were critically injured. Israeli warplanes fired missiles on the cars, entirely destroying one of the vehicles, witnesses said. The remains of the victims were brought to Gaza hospital. Three were identified by medics as Subhi Dughmush, Salah Dughmush and Ahmad Dughmush. Since the Israeli bombardment started on Wednesday, 133 Palestinians have been killed, and around 900 injured. Three Israelis died in a rocket attack last Thursday. Israeli jets continued to pound the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, as rockets flew into southern Israel, wounding one soldier. Hamas' military wing claimed responsibility...

EIR AL-BALAH, Gaza STRIP — No place is safe. That is what the relatives of Amin Zohdi Bashir and Tamer Rushdi Bashir said as they buried two cousins on Monday. They were killed Monday morning in a thundering flash of light that left their car in flames and streaks of tomatoes smashed across the roadside. Relatives said the men were farmers who had nothing to do with the dozens of rockets that militants in Gaza lobbed toward Israel on Monday. Israel said the men were terrorists who were deliberately targeted. But the line between Hamas — the Islamist group that governs the Gaza Strip — and the general population in a densely packed territory of 1.7 million is hopelessly thin. Over the weekend, Israel warned civilians, including journalists, to stay away from Hamas or risk being killed. Many Gazans said that is fundamentally impossible in a place where nearly everyone has a neighbor or a relative with links to Hamas, a group that Israel and the United States consider a terro...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — In the daily demonstrations here of solidarity with Gaza, a mix of sympathy and anguish, there is something else: growing identification with the Islamist fighters of Hamas and derision for the Palestinian Authority, which Washington considers the only viable partner for peace with Israel. “Strike a blow on Tel Aviv!” proclaimed the lyrics of a new hit song blasting from shops and speakers at Monday’s demonstration, in a reference to Hamas rockets that made it nearly to Israel’s economic and cultural capital. “Don’t let the Zionists sleep! We don’t want a truce or a solution! Oh, Palestinians, you can be proud!” Pop songs everywhere are filled with bravado and aggression. But this one reflects a widespread sentiment that does not augur well for President Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority, which is rapidly losing credibility, even relevance. The Gaza truce talks in Cairo, involving Egypt, Turkey and Qatar, offer a telling tableau. The Palestinian ...

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed four Palestinians on Tuesday morning, and another man died of his wounds, on the seventh day of Israel's bombardment of the coastal strip. Yahya Mohammad Awad, 15, was killed while hunting birds north of Gaza City, medics said. Bilal al-Barawi, 20, was also killed in an airstrike on north Gaza. Another airstrike on al-Mughraqa in central Gaza killed Mohammad Rezeq al-Zahar, in his 30s, and wounded his three-year-old son Ahmad, medics said. A Palestinian farmer, Akram Marouf, was killed while he was working on his land when a missile struck north Gaza. Four Palestinians were reported injured in the same strike on Beit Lahiya. Meanwhile, a Palestinian man died of his wounds, sustained in Israel's recent bombardment of Gaza, while being treated in Egyptian hospital on Tuesday. Khalid Daghmash was wounded in an airstrike on Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City and died in el-Arish hospital in north S...

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israel launched over 100 attacks on sites across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, bombing the headquarters of a bank and the home of a Hamas commander. Airstrikes injured two people in Gaza City, one young man in the Shajaya area of Gaza City and a woman after Israel bombed a house in the al-Zaitoun neighborhood. In Khan Younis, fighter jets targeted the al-Agha tower and a mosque. To the east, drones fired four missiles at a house in Abasan and warplanes completely demolished the home of a Hamas commander, Osama Abu Anza. The Israeli army said its attacks targeted underground rocket launchers, "terror tunnels" and ammunition storage facilities. Several people were injured after warplanes bombed the Islamic National Bank in Gaza City, which the army described as a financial institution used by Hamas to "fuel its terror activity." more

The Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth has published the conditions set out by negotiators for a ceasefire to end the current Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip. The newspaper said that a senior security official arrived in Cairo from Israel on Sunday to discuss the Israeli government's conditions with Egyptian officials. According to Yedioth Ahronoth, the Israeli conditions are: A lull for a period of more than 15 years. An immediate end to arms smuggling and the transfer of weapons to Gaza. A cessation of rocket fire on the part of all armed Palestinian factions and an end to attacks on soldiers near the Gaza border. Israel to have the right to hunt down "terrorists" in the event of an attack or if it obtains information about an imminent attack. The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt to remain open, but the crossings on the Gaza-Israel border to stay closed. Egypt's politicians, headed by President Mohamed Morsi, to be the guarantors of any ceasefir...

After a second Israeli attack on a media building in two days, this time killing two journalists, the spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister, Mark Regev explains to al-Jazeera English that because the journalists were Palestinian the Israel military considered them legitimate "targets." Regev's remarks were made just a few hours after the November 19, 2012 bombing of al-Shuruq Tower and another building used to house the offices of several media outlets, including both Palestinian and international networks. Speaking to al-Jazeera, Regev said, "We took out the target that we wanted to take out." When pressed by al-Jazeera over the injuries of eight journalists the previous day, where one lost his leg, Regev continued, Oh you're talking about... oh first of all maybe we have a discussion about who is a journalist and if you'll allow me I will elaborate on this. There is the al-Aqsa station, which is a station that is a Hamas command and control faci...

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli airstrikes on the northern Gaza Strip killed a family of four on Monday, as Israel continued to bombard the coastal enclave for a sixth day, Ma'an's reporter said. Foad Hijazi, Amna Hijazi and their two children Suhaib and Muhammad were killed when their home in Beit Lahiya was hit by an airstrike. Twelve people were reported injured in the attack. Four people, including a woman and child, were also injured in an airstrike on a civilian home in Rafah. Earlier, Israeli airstrikes killed five Palestinians in Gaza refugee camps. more

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli airstrikes killed five Palestinians in Gaza refugee camps on Monday evening, including a man with physical disabilities, in the sixth day of Israel's war on Gaza. Medics said the remains of Husam Shahadeh and his nephew Khalil Shahadeh were brought to Gaza hospital after Israeli shelling on al-Nuseirat camp. Muhammad Zeidan, who is physically disabled, was killed in an airstrike on an agricultural area near al-Nuseirat. A military strike on neighboring al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza killed Arkan Abu Kmayel and Ibrahim Al-Hawajri, medics said. The Popular Resistance Committees' al-Nasser al-Salah al-Din brigades said they were both members of the group. more

Activists have released a video from a protest on Route 60, which runs from Ramallah to Nablus. An Israeli car is seen running over an activist who protesters identified as Abdallah Abu Rahmeh.

Funerals were held for members of the Dallo family killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza City, in what was reported by Israeli media as "mistaken" strike. The Isreali army has since responded that the attack was intended and the it was aimed at the senior Hamas leader living in the same building as the Dallo family. [AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS] Al Jazeera Gaza Live Blog

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's foreign minister will head to Gaza on Tuesday alongside a delegation of Arab ministers to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, following Israeli air strikes on the Palestinian territory, a spokesman for the ministry said. Egypt is at the heart of efforts to broker a truce to end fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant groups. "Mohamed Amr, foreign minister, will head to Gaza accompanying an Arab ministerial delegation to express solidarity with the brave Palestinian people who are subjected to Israeli aggression for the sixth day in a row," Amr Roshdy, spokesman for the ministry, said on Monday. more

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will pay a visit in Gaza alongside an Arab League delegation to extend support to territory amid Israel's attacks, Turkish diplomatic sources have said. The delegation of Arab League foreign ministers headed by bloc's secretary general, Nabil Alaraby, will visit the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. In his talks in Cairo on Sunday, Davutoglu held separate meetings with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal as well as with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr and Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim. more

As is now widely known, in the early morning hours of 18 November during Israel’s continued escalation of its military assault on Gaza, the army targeted two buildings in Gaza City that housed international and Palestinian media outlets. The attacks left at least eight journalists injured. Twenty-year old cameraman Khader al-Zahhar had his right leg blown off when a rocket shot through the roof. At the time of writing, Israel has killed 72 Palestinians — 26 just today — since Wednesday, 14 November. According to a press release today by the human rights organization Adalah: “The Israeli army bombed Al-Shoroq Tower (or the “Journalists’ Tower”) in Gaza City. The 15-story building housed both local Arab and international media agencies such as Al Arabiya, Al Quds TV, Sky News, France 24, and Russia TV. Local media sources reported that eight journalists were injured in the initial attack. According to [Palestinian human rights group] Al-Mezan field reports, building occupants lat...

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Multiple airstrikes killed fourteen people and injured at least 70 as Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip entered its sixth day Monday, a Ma'an reporter said. Israeli aircraft targeted a car in the central Gaza Strip on Monday morning, killing three people, eyewitnesses said. Tamer Bashir, Amin al-Bashir and Rashid Abu Amrah were killed when the vehicle they were traveling in was hit in Deir al-Balah. Earlier, Muhammed Iyad Abu Zour, 4, Abu Zour, 19, Ahed Al-Qatati, 38, and Sahar Abu Zour were killed after airstrikes hit a house in the al-Zaitoun neighborhood of Gaza City. Muhammad Salameh Jundi, 31, was killed in the al-Shujaiyeh neighborhood, Imad Abu Hamda, 30, was killed in al-Shati refugee camp, and Jalal Nasr, 35, died from wounds sustained in a strike on Jabaliya, north of Gaza. An 18-month-old baby, Rama al-Shandi, was also reported killed in the strikes. more

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Negotiations in Cairo for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas have made progress, but a truce is unlikely in the coming days, PLO official Nabil Shaath said Sunday. Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal and his deputy Mousa Abu Marzouq updated Shaath on talks in Cairo between Palestinian factions and an Israeli delegate. Fatah leader and President Mahmoud Abbas is also in direct contact with Mashaal, Shaath said. Shaath told Ma'an that a ceasefire "is not likely to take effect in the coming days because Israel is trying to impose its own stipulations ignoring the demands of Hamas and other Palestinian factions." Palestinian factions are demanding an end to Israel's siege on Gaza and that Israel stops all incursions into Gaza, stops assassinating leaders and stops firing at fishermen off the coast. Shaath said Israel initially requested that Hamas hand over all its weapons. Hamas refused, and said it would agree to stop targeting civilians...

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli air raids across the Gaza Strip killed 24 people on Sunday, including five women and nine children, as Israel pounded the Gaza Strip for the fifth day. Since Wednesday, 72 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes, tank fire and naval shelling. On Sunday evening, an Israeli airstrike on Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip killed 54-year-old Atiyyeh Mubarak and 37-year-old Husam Abu Shawish. Minutes earlier, seven members of the Abu Shehada family were injured when their home was bombed in the al-Maghazi camp in central Gaza. An Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday afternoon killing Suheil Hammad, 45, and his 15-year-old son Muamin. They were driving a water tanker to sell water to residents, a Ma'an reporter says. Four women and four children were among 10 killed in an Israeli missile attacked that leveled the al-Dalou family home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza...

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israel bombed al-Shati refugee camp on Sunday killing a man and a 9-year-old girl, bringing the death toll in Gaza to 54 on the fifth day of heavy shelling. Medics said 27-year-old Ahmad Nahhal and 9-year-old Tasneem Nahhal were killed and eight others wounded in the strike on the camp, which lies on the coastline of Gaza City, medics said. In northern Gaza, medics recovered the body of 52-year-old woman, identified as Nawal Abed al-Ali, from the rubble of an earlier airstrike on a police station in the al-Tufah neighborhood. Nahhal was the fourth child killed in airstrikes across the enclave on Sunday morning. A strike on al-Bureij refugee camp killed 18-month-old Eyad Abu Khousa and wounded his brother, a Ma'an correspondent said Earlier, two children were killed and more than 12 people injured as two houses were bombed in northern Gaza early Sunday, a Gaza official Ashraf al-Qidra said. Medics identified the two children as Tamer Abu Asaifan a...

GAZA, (PIC)-- Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas said it fired on Sunday morning five rockets directly at an Israeli warship off the coast of central Gaza. The Brigades stated in a communiqué that its fighters fired five rockets of type "107" at an Israeli warship off the coast of Nuseirat refugee camp, affirming that the rockets hit their target directly. The Israeli army radio admitted the attack on the warship without saying if the ship was damaged or if there were casualties among the naval forces. more

Here are five BDS ways to effectively express solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza and elsewhere: 1. Boycott Israel! Don’t buy Israeli goods! Profits from exports from Israel help to fund the Israeli government and its crimes against the Palestinian people. Refuse to buy Israeli goods and tell retailers that you are doing it. Persuade friends and family to stop buying any Israeli products too! Brands to avoid include Ahava, Jaffa oranges, Sabra and Tribe hummus and SodaStream. 2. Join an active BDS campaign or start a new one Initiate action in your institution, union, group, etc., against the companies and organisations that support and profit from Israel’s system of oppression over the Palestinian people. For example, in the US, campaigners have pressured major pension funds to divest from Caterpillar, a company that provides bulldozers used to destroy Palestinian homes. Public bodies across the world have been successfully pressured to stop awarding contract...