Tag: Gaza

GAZA CITY: Israel killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza early Tuesday in a rare targeted killing that threatened to unleash a fierce...

--Nineteen Palestinians and four Israelis killed as Israeli forces mass on Gaza border, stoking fears of ground invasion Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered "massive strikes"...

GAZA CITY, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: Four Palestinians, including two Hamas militants, were killed by Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip on Friday, authorities in the...

GAZA: Israel reopened its commercial crossing with the Gaza Strip on Sunday but kept military reinforcements deployed on the volatile frontier, a day after...

--some 40,000 people gathered for mass rally --Israeli military uses live rounds, rubber bullets and tear gas on protesters GAZA: Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied...

GAZA CITY: Israeli air strikes hit sites across the Gaza Strip on Monday in retaliation for a rare long-distance rocket attack that struck a...

GAZA: Israeli forces said on Saturday that they had launched several strikes against Hamas sites in Gaza in response to a projectile launched from...

JERUSALEM: Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced his resignation on Wednesday and called for early elections after a sharp disagreement over a Gaza ceasefire deal,...

GAZA: Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip announced an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Israel on Tuesday after a severe escalation of violence threatened to descend...

GAZA: At least 6 Palestinians were killed and about 20 others wounded in the ongoing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, which started on Monday...

GAZA: Israel's defence minister said on Tuesday that months of violent Palestinian protests on the Gaza border cannot be allowed to go on, urging...

  GAZA CITY: Palestinian mourners across the Gaza Strip have held funerals for seven protesters killed a day earlier. Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Gaza's ruling...

JERUSALEM: Israel announced new restrictions on Gaza Saturday, weeks after the territory's Hamas rulers stepped up protests along the enclave's land and sea borders...

GAZA CITY: Gaza employees of the UN Palestinian refugee agency have suspended services for a day to protest pay cuts and dismissals. Schools, clinics, and...

  JERUSALEM: Israel reopened its only crossing for people with the Gaza Strip on Monday, a week after shutting it over violence along the border...

--State Dept official says funds, originally planned for programmes in West Bank and Gaza, would address 'high-priority projects elsewhere'   WASHINGTON: The United States is cutting more...

GAZA: Israel allowed commercial goods back into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, in a sign of an easing of tensions as neighboring Egypt pursued...