HE Chairman of Qatar's Gaza Reconstruction Committee Ambassador Mohammed Al Emadi has announced that the committee will start distributing cash assistance to 75,000 needy families in the Gaza Strip on Sunday.

Israeli forces attacked Hamas positions in Gaza after rockets fired from the Palestinian enclave hit the Jewish state, the military said early Saturday.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday ruled out holding any bilateral talks with the United States, saying the Islamic republic is opposed to such negotiations in principle.

With a $1mn budget, QRCS is implementing a mega project to enhance the health sector in Gaza, by providing medical expertise and training to staff.

A Palestinian wounded during clashes with Israeli troops along the Gaza-Israel border died on Saturday, the health ministry in the blockaded coastal enclave said.

Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) provided 14 new ultrasound machines to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip as part of its project to support and develop radiological services in these centres.

Israeli forces opened fire at a group of Palestinian gunmen as they tried to cross the Gaza border, the military said on Sunday and Palestinian health officials said three of the men were killed.

offering to reward them with the other, as protesters turned out in the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday to demonstrate against a US economic peace plan.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said Thursday his Palestinian movement rejected next week's US-sponsored Middle East economic conference in Bahrain as it would amount to Arab "normalisation" of ties with Israel.

A Qatari technical delegation held a meeting Monday with the parties concerned with the electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip, represented by the Palestinian energy authority and electricity distribution company.

Chairman of the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza Ambassador Mohamed al-Emadi announced a set of humanitarian projects in Gaza Strip.

Rockets and missiles from Gaza killed four civilians in Israel while Israeli strikes killed 14 Palestinians, most of them militants, in surging cross-border fighting on Sunday ...