After more than 48 hours of the type of intense, door-to-door fighting unseen in Israel for decades, the country's military has retaken control of all the communities around Gaza that gunmen from Hamas had infiltrated, the Israeli military (...)
Israel and the Islamic Jihad group in the Gaza Strip agreed to an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire late Saturday, seeking to halt five days of intense fighting.
The conflict killed 33 Palestinians, including at least 13 civilians. Two people in Israel (...)
Israel said Palestinians in Gaza have fired more than 400 rockets at it, and that its military has hit about 110 militant targets in Gaza, in the heaviest fighting in nine months.
Six people were killed and 45 injured in Gaza, local medics said. (...)
The Israeli army hit targets in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket attacks by Palestinian militants
on Friday, after a three-day ceasefire ended and Egypt-mediated
indirect talks failed to secure a longer truce, dpa reported.
Militants in (...)
Israel stepped up its aerial bombardment of Gaza for a fifth day, striking a mosque and a society for the
disabled, and as the death toll in the coastal strip rose to 127
Saturday the UN called for a ceasefire and the resumption of peace
talks, dpa (...)
Israel is to release some Palestinian prisoners as part of efforts to restart peace talks, an Israeli minister said Saturday.
Yuval Steinitz, the minister for intelligence, international relations and strategic affairs, told Israel Radio that the (...)
The Israeli security cabinet was to convene Saturday night to discuss a ceasefire proposal, as the military campaign entered its fourth week and airstrikes and artillery fire continued overnight and during the day across the Gaza Strip, according to (...)
The Israeli military killed at least five
Palestinians and injured six others during attacks on the
southern and central Gaza Strip Friday, medical officials said.
The fighting in southern Gaza erupted when an Israeli force
crossed into the (...)
A truck bomber blew himself up at a northern
Gaza border crossing with Israel and a demonstration at a another
crossing turned violent Thursday, after ceasefire talks in Egypt
ended inconclusively, according to dpa.
An Israeli military (...)
A fragile lull in fighting between Israel
and Palestinian militants in Gaza ended Thursday, as the radical
Islamic Jihad faction retaliated for the killing of five of its
fighters in the West Bank by firing a new barrage of rockets from (...)
ISRAEL IS PREPARING TO FURTHER STEP UP ITS OFFENSIVE IN THE GAZA STRIP AND SEND IN LARGER NUMBERS OF TROOPS, ISRAEL ARMY RADIO REPORTED MONDAY QUOTING SENIOR MILITARY SOURCES.
THE REINFORCEMENTS ARE TO JOIN IN THE EFFORT TO STOP THE FIRING OF (...)