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A picture shows a view of the archaeological site of Saint Hilarion in the centre of the Gaza Strip, on June 8, 2022. Picture: MAHMUD HAMS / AFP

Gaza strip

Rich heritage buried under impoverished Gaza Strip

By AFP

In the Gaza Strip, ruled by Hamas and repeatedly ravaged by war, people are more familiar with burying the dead than digging up their heritage.

  • A Palestinian boy sleeps in the ruins of his family house that was destroyed in Israeli air strikes during the most recent Israeli-Palestinian fighting, in Gaza City, on 2 July 2021. Picture: MOHAMMED ABED/AFP

    Israel strikes Gaza after border clashes

    The Israeli military said it carried out air strikes against four weapons sites and that it had reinforced its Gaza division with additional troops.

    354 days ago
  • FILE: A Palestinian protester carries a national flag during a demonstration near the border between Israel and Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on 21 December 2018. A 16-year-old Palestinian was killed today by Israeli fire during border protests and clashes east of Gaza City, the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave said. Picture: AFP.

    Egypt intel chief expected in occupied Palestinian territories after truce

    Kamel was set to meet with Palestinian leadership, Palestinian civil affairs minister Hussein al-Sheikh said on Twitter, following the truce on 21 May that ended 11 days of deadly exchange of fire between Israel and armed Palestinian groups.

    438 days ago
  • Palestinians inspect a building, destroyed by Israeli strikes, in Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip on 21 May 2021. A ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, controlled by Islamist group Hamas, came into effect after 11 days of airstrikes and rocket fire. Picture: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP

    Life slowly resumes in ravaged Gaza Strip after ceasefire

    The Egypt-brokered truce halted Israeli airstrikes on the crowded Palestinian territory and rockets fired by Palestinian armed groups at Israel since 10 May.

    446 days ago
  • Israeli security forces and Palestinian Muslim worshippers clash in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third holiest site of Islam, on 21 May 2021. Picture: AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP

    Israeli police, Palestinians in fresh clashes at Al-Aqsa compound

    Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said "riots broke out" at the Al-Aqsa esplanade which is Islam's third holiest site and also revered by Jews, who call it the Temple Mount.

    447 days ago
  • The father of 12-year-old Rahaf al-Dayer holds her covered body at al-Shifa hospital, after she was killed in an Israeli airstrike that destroyed the upper floors of a commercial building and caused damage to the nearby health ministry and prime health care clinic, in Gaza City, on 17 May 2021. Picture: ANAS BABA/AFP

    Death toll climbs in Israel-Gaza conflict amid frantic diplomacy

    Israel's intense bombing campaign has killed 213 Palestinians, including 61 children, and wounded more than 1,400 people in Gaza. The death toll on the Israeli side rose to 12 when a volley of rockets Hamas fired at the southern Eshkol region killed two Thai nationals working in a factory and wounded several others.

    450 days ago
  • A ball of fire erupts from a building in Gaza City's Rimal residential district on 16 May 2021, during massive Israeli bombardment on the Hamas-controlled enclave. Picture: Bashar TALEB/AFP

    Inside weeks of deadly violence between Israel and Palestinians

    Here’s a recap of events leading up to and since violence escalated on 10 May with heavy military exchanges of fire.

    451 days ago
  • A streak of light appears as Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, early on May 17, 2021, Israeli warplanes bombarded the Gaza Strip overnight, said witnesses in the Palestinian enclave, from where armed groups have launched rockets into the Jewish state. Picture: Mahmud Hams / AFP

    Gaza pummelled by fresh Israeli strikes, more than 200 dead in a week

    Overnight Sunday to Monday, Israel launched dozens of strikes in the space of a few minutes across the crowded coastal Palestinian enclave controlled by Islamist group Hamas, according to AFP journalists at the scene.

    451 days ago
  • The Israeli Iron Dome missile defence system (L) intercepts rockets (R) fired by the Hamas movement towards southern Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip as seen in the sky above the Gaza Strip overnight on May 14, 2021. Israel bombarded Gaza with artillery and air strikes on Friday, May 14, in response to a new barrage of rocket fire from the Hamas-run enclave. Picture: ANAS BABA/AFP

    Israel pounds Gaza as US envoy arrives for talks

    Ten members of a single family -- eight children and two women -- were killed when a three-storey building in Shati refugee camp collapsed following an Israel strike.

    453 days ago
  • A man carries a suitcase on his shoulder while members of the Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas, mask-clad due to the coronavirus pandemic, stand guard at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip, on 9 February 2021, which reopened after an Egyptian announcement to let through incoming traffic until further notice. Picture: SAID KHATIB/AFP

    Egypt opens Gaza border crossing 'indefinitely'

    Rafah is the only passage to the outside world for Gaza - a densely populated enclave of around two million Palestinians, half of whom live below the poverty line - that is not controlled by Israel.

    548 days ago
  • A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to hurl stones during clashes with Israeli forces near the fence along the border with Israel in the eastern Gaza Strip on 16 August 2019. Picture: AFP

    Israeli planes bomb Gaza as Egyptians seek to restore calm

    The strikes came as visiting Egyptian security officials strove to defuse the latest uptick in violence, a Hamas source said.

    723 days ago
  • Masked Palestinians inflate balloons before attaching flammable objects to them to be flown toward Israel, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on 8 August 2020. Picture: AFP

    Israel closes Gaza crossing after Palestinians launch incendiary balloons

    Israeli media reported that more than 30 fires were set around border communities by balloons carrying incendiary devices launched from Gaza.

    730 days ago
  • A ball of fire is seen following an Israel airstrike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip early on 27 November 2019. Picture: AFP

    Israel strikes Gaza in response to rocket fire - army

    It said a weapons manufacturing site and underground infrastructure were among the sites targeted.

    988 days ago
  • Palestinians demonstrate near the fence along the border with Israel in the eastern Gaza Strip on 16 August 2019. Picture: AFP

    Israeli warplanes hit Gaza after Palestinian rocket attack

    The army said that Friday night's rocket launch at southern Israel was the first since 12 July.

    1090 days ago
  • FILE: A view of the remains of structures hit by Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip. Picture: United Nations Photo.

    Israel reopens Gaza crossings as calm restored

    Both the Erez crossing for people and Kerem Shalom crossing for goods had been closed on 4 May, when Gaza rulers Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.

    1187 days ago
  • A screengrab of US President Donald Trump.

    Trump says US backs Israel '100%' over Gaza escalation

    The tiny, densely populated enclave's health ministry said among those killed on Sunday were a pregnant woman and a four-month-old baby. The Israeli military declined to comment on the claim.

    1193 days ago
  • Smoke plumes rising following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on 14 July 2018. Picture: AFP

    Dozens of rockets fired at Israel from Gaza, Israel responds

    Israel said around 50 rockets were fired from the Palestinian enclave and its air defence systems intercepted dozens of them.

    1195 days ago
  • FILE: A member of Hamas' military police walks through rubble at a site that was hit by Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on 9 August 2018. Picture: AFP

    Israel strikes Gaza in response to rocket fire

    Around 30 strikes targeted positions held by the military wing of Hamas, which governs Gaza, and their ally Islamic Jihad, causing significant damage, a Gazan security source told AFP.

    1245 days ago
  • Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas smiles during his meeting with the Italian foreign minister at the Palestinian Authority's headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on 29 January 2019. Picture: AFP

    Palestinian president slams US dropping 'occupied' in report

    Donald Trump is expected to unveil his long-awaited plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace in the coming months.

    1246 days ago
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