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/ 15 December 2006
The ruling Hamas group accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah of starting a war after his security forces opened fire on Friday on a Hamas rally in the West Bank and fire fights broke out in Gaza. ”What a war, Mahmoud Abbas, you are launching, first against God and then against Hamas,” senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya said.
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/ 13 November 2006
Palestinian student Huda Abu El-Roos enrolled at Bethlehem University in the occupied West Bank in 2003. But Abu El-Roos, who lives in the Gaza Strip, has never set foot inside the campus. Citing security reasons, Israel has prohibited the 21-year-old and nine colleagues from attending classes on occupational therapy in the biblical town.
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/ 10 November 2006
Tens of thousands of Palestinians wept and screamed for revenge on Thursday as they buried 18 civilians killed in Gaza by Israeli shelling that Israel’s prime minister blamed on a technical failure. ”Killers in Israel, you will never be able to defeat one Palestinian child,” said Abdul Hakim Awad, an official of President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement.
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/ 3 November 2006
An Israeli air strike killed four Palestinian militants and gunfire killed a Gaza woman on Friday as Israel pressed its three-day assault, the largest operation in the Gaza Strip for several months. At least 21 Palestinians have been killed, more than half of them militants, since Israeli troops entered the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun on Wednesday.
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/ 25 October 2006
Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a Spanish photographer working for the Associated Press news agency in Gaza on Tuesday, keeping him captive nearly 13 hours before pressure from Palestinian officials secured his release. Emilio Morenatti (37) was grabbed by four gunmen as he was heading out of his apartment to an AP car on Tuesday morning.
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/ 24 October 2006
Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a Spanish photographer working for the Associated Press news agency in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the AP in Gaza and Palestinian security sources said. An AP employee in Gaza said the photographer was getting into a vehicle when four gunmen seized him.
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/ 20 October 2006
Unidentified gunmen opened fire on security vehicles escorting Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh’s convoy through Gaza on Friday, but the Hamas leader was unhurt. Officials in Haniyeh’s office said the attack did not appear to be an assassination attempt, but it comes at a time of growing tensions between rival Palestinian factions that have sparked fears of civil war.
Fatah gunmen threatened on Tuesday to kill leaders of the governing Hamas group, escalating a power struggle marked by the worst internal violence in Gaza and the West Bank since the Palestinian Authority was created in 1994. On a visit to the Middle East, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged an end to the bloodshed.
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/ 11 September 2006
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reached a deal with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on Monday to form a unity government the Palestinians hope will end their international isolation and revive aid. But the Hamas Islamist group said it will never recognise Israel, raising immediate questions over whether a unity coalition will satisfy Western demands for lifting sanctions.
Israeli aircraft targeted the Palestinian Economy Ministry and the house of a Hamas militant in Gaza on Saturday, part of an offensive to free a captured soldier and prevent the functioning of the Hamas-led government. Doctors said one person, later identified as a Hamas militant, was killed in the strike on the house and eight people were wounded, included a baby and a child.