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Articles of the author KHAN YOUNIS Gaza Strip AP
Palestinian women try to bring baseball to Gaza
The young Palestinian women substitute headscarves for baseball caps and field tennis balls with fabric gloves, giving a decidedly local feel to the great American pastime. They are trying to bring baseball to the Gaza Strip, an effort that is still (...)

20 - 03 - 2017
Hamas ups Gaza budget for coming year
Gaza's Hamas government has approved a budget for 2012 that is 25 percent higher than last year's, suggesting that the global economic crisis has had limited impact on the outside donors backing the movement. Chief of parliament's budget committee (...)

02 - 04 - 2012
Cairo-Hamas standoff leads to Gaza power crisis
A dispute between Egypt and Gaza's Hamas government has produced the worst energy crisis here in years: Gazans are enduring 18-hour-a-day blackouts, fuel is running low for hospital backup generators, raw sewage pours into the Mediterranean Sea for (...)

23 - 03 - 2012
Gaza children bounce balls in record bid
More than 7,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip simultaneously dribbled basketballs for five minutes on Thursday in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records, Gaza's top UN aid official said. The event took place on a bombed-out (...)

24 - 07 - 2010
Militants vandalize UN summer camp
Armed assailants in black masks burned and vandalized a UN summer camp site Sunday and left behind three bullets next to written death threats against UN officials - the latest escalation of tensions between Islamic extremists and UN representatives (...)

24 - 05 - 2010
Hamas, Egypt clash across sealed border; 1 dead
Hamas loyalists and Egyptian troops opened fire along Gaza's volatile border Wednesday, leaving an Egyptian soldier dead and more than a dozen Gazans hurt in the bloodiest clash between the two sides in a year. Accompanied by a barrage of rocks, (...)

07 - 01 - 2010
Gaza steel wall work moving forward
A jackhammer pounded large steel beams side by side into the sandy soil on the Egyptian side of Gaza's border, putting in place an underground wall that could shift the balance of power in this volatile area. Once completed, the steel barrier would (...)

06 - 01 - 2010
Zany zebras enthrall at Gaza zoo
Gaza City zookeepers have found a creative way of drawing crowds to their dilapidated zoo - by painting their donkeys. The Marah Land Zoo's only two zebras died of hunger earlier this year when they were neglected during the Israel-Hamas war. The (...)

10 - 10 - 2009
Syrian actor Lahham tours Gaza, assails Israel
Syrian actor Duraid Lahham has toured a Gaza neighborhood flattened in Israel's winter war on Hamas and has assailed Israel and the international community. Israel waged a military offensive on Gaza's Hamas rulers to halt years of rocket fire on (...)

27 - 07 - 2009
Family with American children stranded in blockaded Gaza
In blockaded Gaza, even an American passport isn't a sure ticket to freedom. Two boys, ages 5 and 6, are stranded because one has a US passport that expired and the other's is about to. The US offers no consular services in Gaza, and Israel's (...)

30 - 06 - 2009
UN team begins probe in Gaza
A UN team headed by a respected South African judge has begun its probe into possible war crimes by Israel and Hamas militants during three weeks of fighting in the territory. The team entered Gaza via Egypt Monday without having secured Israeli (...)

02 - 06 - 2009
Gaza's economy in tatters
Not long ago, Yaser Alwadeya's factory was the largest food maker in the Gaza Strip, producing cookies, ice cream and other treats for residents of the blockaded territory. Today, the sprawling complex lies in ruins. The heavy damage is testament (...)

01 - 02 - 2009
Gazans dig corpses from rubble as ceasefire begins
Families began their desperate search as soon as Israeli soldiers abandoned this devastated refugee camp Sunday, picking by hand through mounds of concrete and steel for the bodies of dead relatives, belongings and even scraps of bombs to sell as (...)

19 - 01 - 2009
Gaza medics face war's carnage daily
The medics who brave Israel's assault on Gaza have come under fire from tanks and faced days-long delays in getting to the scene of attacks, sometimes finding animals gnawing at corpses when they finally reach the dead and wounded. Few are more (...)

12 - 01 - 2009
‘Wait for me! Pull me out!'
Terrified prisoners fled a Gaza City jail bombed by Israeli warplanes on Sunday, their faces white with dust and red with blood as they stumbled over huge piles of rubble. Across the territory, grieving families pitched traditional mourning tents (...)

29 - 12 - 2008
Blair postpones Gaza visit
Mideast envoy Tony Blair on Tuesday called off what would have been the first visit of a top Western diplomat to Hamas-ruled Gaza, citing a “specific security threat.” Blair's visit Tuesday was to have included a tour of a Gaza waste water project (...)

16 - 07 - 2008
Palestinians attack Egypt troops at Rafa
Hundreds of Palestinians stormed the Gaza Strip's border crossing with Egypt on Wednesday, throwing rocks at Egyptian troops and demanding to cross through, witnesses said. The Palestinians accused Egypt of reneging on a promise to open the vital (...)

03 - 07 - 2008
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