Tag: Gaza

Israeli airstrike kills Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza home

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

Netanyahu pledges ‘massive strikes’ in Gaza as death toll reaches 23

--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"...

Four Palestinians killed in Gaza after army says soldiers wounded

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...

Israel reopens Gaza commercial crossing in sign of easing tensions

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

Tens of thousands Palestinians rally at Israel-Gaza border

--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...

Israel, Hamas clash over Gaza, then truce reached

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...

Israel hits Gaza in response to ‘projectile’: army

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

Israel defence minister says resigning after Gaza ceasefire

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,...

Hamas announces ceasefire with Israel after worst escalation in years

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...

Six Palestinians killed, 20 injured in ongoing Israeli airstrikes on Gaza:...

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 clashes ‘cannot continue’: Israeli defence minister

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...

Mourners hold funerals for 7 killed in Gaza

  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...

Israel places new restrictions on Gaza after protests

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 refugee agency staff on strike over cutbacks, firings

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...

Israel reopens people crossing with Gaza Strip

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

Trump cuts more than $200m aid to Palestinians

--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...

Israel lets food, goods back into Gaza as Egypt pushes truce

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