Tag: Gaza
Gaza ceasefire deal reached, Palestinian groups say
Cairo's initiative calls for indefinite halt to seven weeks of hostilities, immediate opening of Gaza's blockaded crossings with Israel and Egypt and widening of...
Israeli air strikes kill two Palestinians, 20 wounded
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Israeli air strikes launched before dawn on Tuesday killed two Palestinians and destroyed much of one of Gaza's tallest apartment and office buildings,...
Iran ‘will arm Palestinians’ after Israeli drone downed
Iran, which does not recognise the existence of Israel, has confirmed it supplied Palestinian fighters from Hamas and the Islamic Jihad with the technology for the rockets being fired relentlessly into Israel from Gaza since July 8.
Israel air strike kills two in Gaza after Egypt calls for...
The UN says 70% of the Palestinians who have died were civilians, and that among the dead were 478 children.
Egypt calls for Gaza ceasefire as fighting rages
Five people, including two children, killed in Israeli strike on a house in central Gaza; four more Palestinians killed in other strikes
Four-year-old Israeli boy...
Two killed in Gaza by Israel airstrike
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An Israeli airstrike on a Gaza farm killed two Palestinians on Friday, a Gaza health official said, as fighting continued for a third...
Three Hamas commanders killed by Israel airstrike
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The armed wing of Hamas announced Thursday that three of its senior commanders were killed in a pre-dawn Israeli air strike in Rafah...
Israel says Gaza militants fired rockets, breached truce
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the rocket salvoes, and Israeli retaliation appeared imminent
Three rockets fired from Gaza hit Israel on Tuesday...
Masses step out for ‘Gaza Million March’ on JI’s call
JI chief calls upon Muslims to unite against Israeli aggression in Gaza; condemns UN’s role of being ‘silent spectator’
Says Pak Army should protect other...
Five-day ceasefire enters day two as Hamas, Israel negotiate
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A fragile ceasefire extension between Hamas and Israel entered its second day Friday as the two sides in the Gaza conflict ponder Egyptian-mediated...
Gaza truce holding despite shaky start
A Palestinian woman uses a piece of reebar she found amid the rubble, for support as she walks past destroyed homes in a street in Beit Hanun, northern Gaza Strip
5 including journalist killed as Gaza experts dismantle missile: medics
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A foreign journalist was among at least five people killed in northern Gaza on Wednesday as Palestinian experts were dismantling an Israeli...
All quiet in Gaza, Cairo talks continue
A semblance of normal life returned to Gaza on Tuesday as a 72-hour truce entered its second day and negotiators sat down in Cairo...
Life stirs in Gaza as new 72-hour truce takes hold
Hamas, the de facto power in Gaza, has conditioned its acceptance of any permanent agreement on Israel lifting its eight-year blockade on Gaza.
Fleeing Syria to die in Gaza
Abdullah Abu Shabab fled the war in Syria to shelter in Gaza, the home his Palestinian parents lost in the 1967 war. But in the end an Israeli bomb killed him.
Sirajul Haq urges PM to convene moot on Gaza
Sirajul Haq also lauded Saeeda Warsi for her resignation from the UK government over its policy on Gaza.
Israel says won’t talk under fire, new Gaza truce plan mulled
Since a three-day truce expired on Friday, Palestinian rocket and mortar salvoes have focused on Israeli kibbutzim, or collective farms, just across the border in what appeared to be a strategy of sapping the Jewish state's morale without triggering another ground invasion of the tiny Gaza Strip