palestine archives — Page 150 of 164

Thousands of Palestinians stuck in Sinai

Posted on 14/07/200729/03/2015 By 3arabawy

Sleeping in the sand and running out of money, thousands of Palestinians have been stranded in Egypt’s desert for more than a month since the border with Hamas-controlled Gaza has been closed.
Conditions in the frontier town were increasingly desperate yesterday, with one woman saying she was forced to sell her wedding ring to feed her family. Others complained authorities weren’t even providing blankets or other basic necessities.
The Rafah border terminal has been closed since June 9, the start of the final round of bloody factional fighting between Fatah and Hamas that led to the Islamic group’s takeover of the Gaza Strip.
Egypt said this week it had ruled out opening the border anytime soon, a move intended to put pressure on Hamas to resolve its conflict with Fatah.

Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972)

Posted on 07/07/200704/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the assassination of Palestinian writer and PFLP activist Ghassan Kanafani, killed with his niece 8 July 1972, by a car bomb in Beirut, planted by the terrorist state of Israel.

Palestinian resistance reject foreign troops

Posted on 30/06/200718/01/2021 By 3arabawy

From Al-Jazeera:

The armed wing of Hamas has rejected calls by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, for the deployment of international troops in the Gaza Strip, vowing to attack them like other “occupation forces”.
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement on Saturday: “We will only receive these forces with shells and rockets.”
In talks on Friday with Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, Abbas had called for deployment of international forces into Gaza where Hamas routed his forces on June 15.