Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has invited a senior Egyptian mediator to Occupied Jerusalem Sunday, raising speculation that Israel is about to make its latest response to Hamas for a major prisoner swap.
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Egyptian mediators trying to break the deadlock in talks on a Palestinian government of national unity have told rival groups Fatah and Hamas to cooperate on reconstructing Gaza as a first step, officials said.
Palestinian groups have been talking (...)
Rival Palestinian factions have so far failed to overcome obstacles in reconciliation talks which they hope will lead to a unified governing body for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, officials said on Friday.
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Five-year-old Mohammed Al-Najjar lets his mind wander as he puts crayon to paper in an effort to depict an Israeli air strike inside a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
“This is the plane and those are two missiles it fired. They hit a house and the (...)
Palestinian families returned to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday but many found there was nothing recognizable left standing.
Women and children gazed around in dismay as they came in sight of Salatin, trundling slowly along on (...)
Israeli forces pushed deeper into Gaza city on Thursday and unleashed their heaviest shelling of its crowded neighborhoods in three weeks of war, stepping up pressure on Hamas as the Islamist group weighed a ceasefire.
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Israel opened a border crossing with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Monday for the first time in two weeks, allowing in a limited amount of humanitarian aid.
The move came ahead of talks in occupied Jerusalem between outgoing Israeli Prime (...)
An Israeli airstrike killed four militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he had commissioned a plan for military action in the Hamas-run territory should rocket attacks on Israel persist.
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Hamas security forces arrested Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's top Fatah representatives in the Gaza Strip Friday, ratcheting up tensions between the rival factions.
A day earlier Abbas ordered his Fatah-dominated security services in the (...)