August 23, 2014
11:12 am

Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk in Gaza, December 7, 2012 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas backs International Criminal Court bid

Group’s support for Palestinian appeal to The Hague could subject Israel, and Hamas itself, to a war crimes probe

By Ibrahim Barzak and Mohammed Daraghmeh

August 1, 2014
9:31 pm

Israeli soldiers take part in a briefing at an army deployment area on the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip Friday, August 1, 2014. (photo credit: Jack Guez/AFP)

Dozens said killed in Gaza after 2 soldiers killed, 3rd seized during truce

Israeli forces move deeper into Rafah area, where Hadar Goldin was captured Friday morning

By Ibrahim Barzak and Daniel Estrin

August 1, 2014
1:49 am

Smoke rises after an Israeli strike on Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 31, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Majed Hamdan)

Israel, Hamas agree to 72-hour ceasefire

Humanitarian truce to begin at 8 a.m. Friday; IDF will still tackle tunnels; Israeli and Palestinian teams will go to Cairo for talks

By Ian Deitch and Ibrahim Barzak

July 30, 2014
4:17 am

Heavy smoke billows following an Israeli military strike on Gaza City, on July 29, 2014. (AFP/Ashraf Amra)

Israel hits symbols of Hamas rule as 128 killed

IDF carries out heaviest strikes to date in northern Gaza. Territory plunged into darkness after power plant hit

By Ibrahim Barzak and Yousur Alhlou

June 6, 2014
10:49 am

In this June 3, 2014, photo, Imad and Rawda Zanoun and their grandchildren Rawda and Farah visit the grave of the girls' father, Alaa Eldin, who was killed in a 2007 fight between Hamas and Fatah, days before the Hamas takeover in Gaza City. (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)

Despite unity, Palestinians wary of burying hatchet over deaths

Sides slated to agree to compensation for 375 killed in factional fighting in Gaza last decade, but some prefer revenge over payouts

By Ibrahim Barzak

May 15, 2014
5:47 am

In this Tuesday, May 13, 2014 photo, Palestinian refugees Fathiyeh Sattari, 62, and her son Hassan, 40, look at their photograph that was taken at the Rafah UN Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, clinic in 1975. (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)

UN photo archive tells story of Palestinian refugees

On the 66th anniversary of the ‘Nakba,’ a million-dollar project aims to digitize, preserve hundreds of thousands of images

By Karin Laub and Ibrahim Barzak

April 11, 2014
11:54 am

Palestinian security officers Ahed Abu Shabban, 23, foreground, and Muhmmad Debo, 22, aim electronically-modified AK-47 rifles at the headquarters of the security training department of the Hamas interior ministry in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, April 10, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Cash-strapped Hamas turns to lasers for training

Gunmen take target practice in indoor simulator, as bullets are scarce and Israel is always watching

By Ibrahim Barzak

March 14, 2014
2:43 am

Illustrative photo of Palestinian Hamas employees waiting in line to pick up their salaries at a post office in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, on March 12, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)

Hamas in worst financial crisis since seizing Gaza

Egypt’s return last year to a government hostile to the Islamic movement has had deep economic repercussions

By Ibrahim Barzak and Karin Laub

February 4, 2014
8:22 pm

A Palestinian worker collects mint at a farm in al-Qarara, Gaza Strip, on February 2, 2014 photo. (photo credit: AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Gazans turn to herb agriculture to ease economic woes

Some hope Palestinian mint and basil will be a hit in Europe if corporate boycott of Israeli West Bank produce grows

By Ibrahim Barzak

January 30, 2014
11:37 am

Director Majed Jundiyeh holds a mobile phone to compare the image of Gilad Shalit to the likeness of actor Mahmoud Karira, who will play the character of Shalit in a movie being made in Gaza called 'Losing Shalit,' Jan. 26, 2014 (photo credit: Hatem Moussa/AP)

Gaza film to dramatize Shalit abduction

Local movie employs amateur actors in mostly Hebrew-speaking roles; director wants ‘to establish a movie industry of resistance’

By Ibrahim Barzak

December 18, 2013
3:05 pm

Gaza psychiatrist and prominent Palestinian human rights campaigner Dr. Eyad Sarraj, left, listens to Jewish-American scholar and activist Noam Chomsky, right, during a meeting with Palestinian youth activists at Almathaf hotel in Gaza City, October 19, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)

Prominent Palestinian human rights campaigner dies

Dr. Eyad Sarraj protested against the actions of both Israeli and Palestinian governments

By Ibrahim Barzak

December 15, 2013
1:32 am

Palestinian rescue members evacuate residents using a fishing boat following heavy rains in Gaza City, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Gaza flooding drives 40,000 from their homes

Rescue efforts hampered by fuel shortages and rolling power cuts

By Ibrahim Barzak and Karin Laub

November 10, 2013
4:53 pm

Isra Almodallal, 23, the first woman to be appointed as a spokesperson for Hamas, the conservative Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip, speaks during an interview at Hamas information ministry in Gaza City (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)

Hamas’s first spokeswoman to promote ‘more human’ image

With their influence waning, Gaza rulers appoint 23-year-old Isra Almodallal in a bid to appeal to broader audiences

By Ibrahim Barzak

October 2, 2013
11:04 pm

This photograph released by the Gaza Strip Interior Ministry purports to show a gallows prepared for the execution of Hani Abu Aliyan, a 28-year-old convicted of killing two people, in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. (AP/Gaza Interior Ministry)

Hamas executes Gaza man convicted of murder

Hani Abu Aliyan, 28, hanged by the neck until dead in presence of victim’s family

By Ibrahim Barzak

August 20, 2013
11:32 am

In this Monday, July 22, 2013 photo, a man walks through remains of St. Hilarion’s monastery in the Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip. St. Hilarion’s monastery, a reminder of the time in late antiquity when Christianity was the dominant faith in what is now the Gaza Strip, is one of many archaeological treasures scattered across this coastal territory. (photo credit: AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Gaza’s ancient ruins endangered by modern sprawl

Construction in one of the most crowded places on earth imperils sites spanning 4,500 years, from Bronze Age ramparts to Byzantine mosaics

By Daniela Berretta and Ibrahim Barzak

Writer: Ibrahim Barzak

Hamas backs International Criminal Court bid

Group’s support for Palestinian appeal to The Hague could subject Israel, and Hamas itself, to a war crimes probe

Dozens said killed in Gaza after 2 soldiers killed, 3rd seized during truce

Israeli forces move deeper into Rafah area, where Hadar Goldin was captured Friday morning

Israel, Hamas agree to 72-hour ceasefire

Humanitarian truce to begin at 8 a.m. Friday; IDF will still tackle tunnels; Israeli and Palestinian teams will go to Cairo for talks

Israel hits symbols of Hamas rule as 128 killed

IDF carries out heaviest strikes to date in northern Gaza. Territory plunged into darkness after power plant hit

Despite unity, Palestinians wary of burying hatchet over deaths

Sides slated to agree to compensation for 375 killed in factional fighting in Gaza last decade, but some prefer revenge over payouts

UN photo archive tells story of Palestinian refugees

On the 66th anniversary of the ‘Nakba,’ a million-dollar project aims to digitize, preserve hundreds of thousands of images

Cash-strapped Hamas turns to lasers for training

Gunmen take target practice in indoor simulator, as bullets are scarce and Israel is always watching

Hamas in worst financial crisis since seizing Gaza

Egypt’s return last year to a government hostile to the Islamic movement has had deep economic repercussions

Gazans turn to herb agriculture to ease economic woes

Some hope Palestinian mint and basil will be a hit in Europe if corporate boycott of Israeli West Bank produce grows

Gaza film to dramatize Shalit abduction

Local movie employs amateur actors in mostly Hebrew-speaking roles; director wants ‘to establish a movie industry of resistance’

Prominent Palestinian human rights campaigner dies

Dr. Eyad Sarraj protested against the actions of both Israeli and Palestinian governments

Gaza flooding drives 40,000 from their homes

Rescue efforts hampered by fuel shortages and rolling power cuts

Hamas’s first spokeswoman to promote ‘more human’ image

With their influence waning, Gaza rulers appoint 23-year-old Isra Almodallal in a bid to appeal to broader audiences

Hamas executes Gaza man convicted of murder

Hani Abu Aliyan, 28, hanged by the neck until dead in presence of victim’s family

Gaza’s ancient ruins endangered by modern sprawl

Construction in one of the most crowded places on earth imperils sites spanning 4,500 years, from Bronze Age ramparts to Byzantine mosaics

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