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Gaza Municipality

October 14th, 2025 - 12:42 GMT

Sally Shakkour

Gaza Municipality, Qatari Committee join efforts to remove rubble from roads

ALBAWABA - Construction vehicles were seen in the streets of the Gaza Strip as part of a campaign between the Gaza Municipality and the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza. Construction vehicles were seen on Al-Shaaf Street in Eastern Gaza City to open closed roads due to the rubble after the end of the two-year war in the strip. Gaza Municipality posted on X footage and wrote, "Gaza Municipality ...

Best friends? Fatah and Hamas vow to set-up a united Palestinian government. Photo for illustrative purposes only.

May 16th, 2013 - 04:00 GMT

My enemy's enemy is my friend: Fatah and Hamas to form Palestinian unity government

Syrian rebels in Aleppo try to free jailed regime opponents. Photo for illustrative purposes only.

May 15th, 2013 - 01:18 GMT

Syrian rebels try to storm prison in Aleppo

Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (C) arrives with his daughter Fatemeh (C-R) to register his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election at the interior ministry in Tehran on May 11, 2013. (AFP)

May 15th, 2013 - 10:13 GMT

Iran hard-liners call for election ban on Rafsanjani, Mashaei

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks to the press (Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP)

May 15th, 2013 - 08:42 GMT

Gunmen shoot dead 12 in Baghdad booze shops

Palestinian protest for Nakba Day in Bethlehem

May 15th, 2013 - 07:33 GMT

More tears for Nakba Day in little town of Bethlehem when Israelis unleash rubber bullets and gas

UN General Assembly

May 15th, 2013 - 07:26 GMT

UN to vote on Syria resolution to back political transition

Putin will receive his Israeli counterpart on Tuesday to discuss the current issues in the Middle East. (AFP PHOTO/ POOL/ MAXIM SHIPENKOV)

May 14th, 2013 - 03:57 GMT

Russian and Israeli leaders meet to discuss current situation in the Middle East

Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters greet their comrades as they arrive in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk on May 14, 2013, after leaving Turkey as part of a peace drive with Ankara. (Safin Hamed/AFP)

May 14th, 2013 - 02:14 GMT

Kurds begin arriving in Iraq, face rejection by the government

A Saudi health ministry official visits patients infected with a new SARS-like virus at a hospital in the eastern Saudi province of al-Ahsaa on May 13, 2013 (AFP)

May 14th, 2013 - 08:52 GMT

Four new cases of SARS-like virus found in Saudi Arabia

A video which appears to show a Syrian rebel commander mutilating a corpse and eating its heart

May 14th, 2013 - 08:20 GMT

Syrian rebel heart-eating video sparks global outrage

Cameron and Obama during a press conference after their meeting in Washington on Monday. (AFP PHOTO/JIM WATSON)

May 14th, 2013 - 04:00 GMT

Cameron: "Syria's history is being written in the blood of her people and it's happening on our watch."

Bystanders and residents gather next to the wreckage of a car at the site of a car bomb that exploded in the parking lot of a Benghazi hospital in Libya on Monday. (AFP Photo)

May 13th, 2013 - 04:39 GMT

Benghazi car bomb kills at least 10, casualty number could rise