KHAN YOUNIS, Palestine: Walid al-Aqqad’s Gaza home would be the envy of many an antiquities collector. Pieces of Corinthian columns greet visitors in...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: When Gazans think of better economic times, images of clay pottery, colorful glassware, bamboo furniture and ancient frame looms weaving...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: When Palestinian preschooler Aisha al-Lulu came out of brain surgery in a strange occupied Jerusalem hospital room, she called out for her...
GAZA CITY: It’s past midnight, but a dozen Palestinians are still running and sweating at a gym in Gaza. During Islam’s holiest month of Ramadan,...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Two years ago, Gaza resident Saleh Abu Serdanah took out a small loan in order to get married and start a family. These days, the...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Hamas is facing the biggest demonstrations yet against its 12-year rule of the Gaza Strip, with hundreds of Palestinians taking to the...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: An opioid crisis has quietly spread in the Gaza Strip, trapping thousands in the hell of addiction and adding another layer of misery to...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: A new documentary called “Gaza” now screening at the Sundance Film Festival, provides a colorful glimpse of life in the blockaded...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: When Mahmoud Othman tried to figure a way to save his cafe business in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, he was amazed by online videos of...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: The small town of Abassan in the Gaza Strip is a tough place to infiltrate everyone knows everyone else and outsiders passing through...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Palestinians in Gaza have coped with shortages of just about everything in more than a decade of border closures, from chocolate to...
KHUZAA, Palestine: Each Friday, volunteer medic Asmaa Qudih goes through a tense ritual: She prays, kisses her mother’s hand and packs a bag with medical...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: Even as Russia pushes to repatriate Syrians who fled their country amid civil war, many of the refugees in Jordan said Thursday they will not...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Samia Hasan used to have enough money to feed her two dozen children and grandchildren. Now she spends much of her time worrying about...
KHUZAA, Palestine: Palestinian activists chanted “death is better than humiliation” as three-wheelers stacked with old tires drove into a tent camp in a...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Gaza’s embattled Hamas rulers are imploring people to march along the border with Israel in the coming weeks in a risky gambit...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Lately, Gaza residents have been jolted awake in the dead of night to a raucous mixture of Quranic phrases, Islamic supplications and...
TEL ES-SAKAN, Gaza Strip: Archaeologists began excavating Gaza’s earliest archaeological site nearly 20 years ago, unearthing what they believe is a rare...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: New Israeli restrictions on Palestinians exiting the blockaded Gaza Strip, including a ban on laptops, hard-shell suitcases and even...
BEIT LAHIYA, Palestine: Grim records mark the 10th anniversary of Hamas rule in Gaza – the longest-ever daily electricity and water cuts, 60 percent youth...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: When Gaza’s 2 million residents break their dawn-to-dusk fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, much of the territory is engulfed...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: An international human rights group Monday accused Israel of barring foreign researchers from entering the Gaza Strip to document...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: The United Nations and human rights groups have accused Gaza’s Hamas rulers of endangering their own people by closing the territory’s...
KHAN YOUNES, Palestine: Quiet on the set! Surrounded by training sites on uprooted Jewish settlement lands, the first movie set in the Gaza Strip is growing,...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: The group Hamas has drafted a new political program it hopes will improve ties with neighboring Egypt and the West, and present a more...