Gaza City
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas - the Islamic militant group that controls one of the two Palestinian territories and rejects negotiations.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Over a billion Muslims in the Middle East and around the world have begun observing the holy month of Ramadan - a period devoted to prayer and dawn-to-dusk fasting.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - There are few pleasures left for Gaza's 1.5 million people, squeezed by both a blockade and Hamas efforts to impose its strict Muslim lifestyle.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Gaza's Hamas rulers have banned women from smoking water pipes in cafes, calling it a practice that destroys marriages and sullies the image of the Palestinian people.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Gaza's Islamic Hamas government on Thursday banned men from working in women's hair salons, the latest step in its campaign to impose strict Islamic customs on Gaza's 1.5 million people.
