Gaza

Lip-smacking profits in smuggling KFC to Gazans

17 May 2013

Fast-food starved Gazans can now order home-delivered Kentucky Fried Chicken, thanks to a new smuggling service which brings takeout from Egypt via a network of underground tunnels. It is not...

4:22AM

Palestinians mark their 1948 displacement

15 May 2013

Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday to mark the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war that followed Israel’s founding in 1948...

9:22PM

Blast damages Israel army vehicle in Gaza

9 Apr 2013

An explosive device blew up near the border in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, damaging an Israeli military vehicle, Palestinian witnesses and the army said.

6:28PM

Israeli artist Yaron Bob creates symbol of peace

7 Apr 2013

Israeli metal artist Yaron Bob makes roses and other art items out of spent steel artillery and rockets fired from Gaza by Hamas into Israel.

6:47AM

Hamas urges UN to resume Gaza food aid

5 Apr 2013

Gaza’s Hamas rulers on Friday urged the United Nations to reconsider its suspension of food aid for Palestinian refugees, imposed after protesters stormed a UN depot.

9:19PM

Sports Digest, March 6, 2013

6 Mar 2013

Sunray Cave Sun Hei took an early hit in their AFC Cup campaign as they went down 1-0 to New Radiant of the Maldives at National Stadium in Male last night.

3:38AM

Opinion

Hari Kumar

Workers pay the price for our bargains

5:20AM

Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

3:47AM

Doubts in Israel over a ground assault on Gaza

The olive orchards and wheat fields lining the Gaza Strip border with Israel were always sparsely populated, but the area is now a virtual no man's land.

Fearing an Israeli ground invasion...

3:05AM

Three dead in new Israeli air strikes, media building hit

A senior Islamic Jihad militant was killed on Monday in an Israeli strike on a Gaza City building housing Palestinian and international media, the Islamist faction told news agency, AFP.

11:40PM

International pressure mounts for Gaza truce

Israel bombed dozens of suspected militant sites in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Monday and Palestinians kept up their cross-border rocket fire as international pressure for a truce intensified...

8:26PM

LEADER

Obama, Mursi, must seize chance for Gaza peace

The latest conflict between Israelis and Palestinians seems depressingly familiar: rockets fired from Gaza into Israel, a swift retaliation with the killing of a high-profile target, and an...

3:48AM

MIDDLE EAST

Signs mount of possible Israeli invasion of Gaza

Israeli aircraft pummeled rocket launching operations of Gaza militants on Friday, as troops, tanks and armoured personnel carriers massed near the Palestinian territory.

8:58PM

BRIEFS

Briefs, November 11, 2012

Two killed as Israel retaliates in Gaza

6:38AM