Jerusalem: At least 15 Palestinians have been killed in the worst violence between Israeli forces and militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in nearly a year, even as Israel warned of more attacks if its civilians are targetted. Gaza-based medical officials said an airstrike on Saturday killed two men in the southern part of the Hamas-ruled territory, raising to 15 the number of Palestinians killed since Israel assassinated a top...
12:12 AM, Mar 11, 2012
Beit Hanoun (Gaza Strip): Dozens of Palestinians on Thursday tried to block UN chief Ban Ki-moon from entering the Gaza Strip and pelted his armoured convoy with shoes and sticks, accusing him of being unfairly biased toward Israel. The incident cast a shadow over Ban's visit to Gaza, which was meant to draw attention to humanitarian issues in the crowded seaside strip. Ban was in Gaza on the second day...
08:57 AM, Feb 03, 2012
Gaza: Gaza militants fired rockets at southern Israel on Monday, in violence that tested a shaky truce brokered by Egypt after a border flare-up that has claimed the lives of a dozen Palestinian gunmen and an Israeli civilian since the weekend. An Israeli military spokeswoman said four rockets slammed into the Ashkelon and Beersheba regions as darkness fell on Monday, while a fifth was intercepted by a missile defence shield...
12:29 AM, Nov 01, 2011
Gaza: Violence between Israel and Gaza militants flared anew on Sunday after Egypt said it had brokered a truce to end attacks that have killed 10 Palestinian gunmen and an Israeli civilian in the past five days. A ceasefire had appeared to be taking hold, with the frontier quiet for some eight hours, until Israeli aircraft attacked Palestinian militants who the military said were about to fire rockets from the...
12:32 AM, Oct 31, 2011
Gaza: Israel's air force bombed an Islamic Jihad camp in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing a commander of the Palestinian faction and four of its munitions experts, officials on both sides said. The strike in Rafah, a town in Gaza's border with Egypt, followed a Palestinian cross-border rocket launch this week which the Israelis blamed on Islamic Jihad. That attack caused no casualties but a rocket landed deep...
03:48 AM, Oct 30, 2011
Gaza City: Hamas' leader in the Gaza Strip says the militant group has officially turned over a captive Israeli soldier to Egypt as part of a prisoner swap with Israel. In a text message, Mahmoud Zahar said on Tuesday that his group is no longer holding Sgt Gilad Schalit. Earlier, militants had whisked the 25-year-old soldier across Gaza's border to Egypt, which has acted as a mediator in the deal....
01:01 PM, Oct 18, 2011
Jerusalem: Upgrading the Palestinians' UN status would be a "strategic mistake by the world", a senior Israeli official said on Wednesday, cautioning that Israel had prepared a slew of punitive and diplomatic responses. Outlining government strategy ahead of next month's showdown at the United Nations, the official said long-stalled peace talks would sag further should the Palestinians sidestep Israel in staking out statehood. "It's clear to all that no foreseeable...
02:53 AM, Sep 01, 2011
Gaza: Some 15,000 children flew kites over the Gaza Strip on Thursday, claiming a new world record for most kites flown simultaneously and raising cheers in the Palestinian enclave that is more used to poverty and conflict. The launch on a golden beach within view of an imposing Israeli power station across the border took place despite overnight vandalism of facilities set up by a UN humanitarian agency. Chris Gunness,...
12:45 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Jerusalem: The Gaza Strip enters its fifth year of a full Israeli blockade by land, air and sea on Tuesday with unemployment at 45.2 percent, one of the highest rates in the world, a UN aid agency report said. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) found that by the second half of 2010, real wages had fallen 34.5 percent since the first half of 2006, when...
03:41 AM, Jun 14, 2011
Rafah: After four years, Egypt on Saturday permanently opened the Gaza Strip's main gateway to the outside world, bringing long-awaited relief to the territory's Palestinian population and a significant achievement for the area's ruling Hamas militant group. The reopening of the Rafah border crossing eases an Egyptian blockade of Gaza that has prevented the vast majority of the densely populated area's 1.5 million people from being able to travel abroad....
01:12 PM, May 28, 2011
Gaza: Egypt has invited Palestinian leaders to Cairo next week for the signing of a unity agreement that would end rivalry among ruling factions, Palestinian officials said on Friday. The Egyptian-brokered deal, announced unexpectedly on Wednesday, calls for forming a new government acceptable to both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, which is dominant in the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip Hamas's rulers. Israel denounced the agreement, saying Abbas...
10:25 PM, Apr 29, 2011
Gaza City: Israeli aircraft struck Palestinian militant targets in the Gaza Strip on Thursday in response to rocket and mortar attacks, stoking mounting concerns that a grave new round of hostilities will fill the vacuum left by a negotiations impasse in the Mideast peace effort. Two years of relative calm have frayed in recent weeks with acts of violence against Israelis, including a deadly bombing in Jerusalem on Wednesday -...
12:11 PM, Mar 24, 2011
Jerusalem: A bomb exploded near a bus stop in a Jewish neighbourhood of Jerusalem on Wednesday, injuring at least 30 people, police and medics said. Police described the explosion as a "terrorist attack", Israel's term for a Palestinian strike. It was the first such bombing in Jerusalem in seven years. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, which police said was caused by a bomb planted close...
08:32 PM, Mar 23, 2011
Jerusalem: Israel's Prime Minister on Sunday accused Iran of trying to exploit the recent instability in Egypt by sending two warships through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, saying he views the move "with gravity." The Iranian ships were expected to make a rare crossing through the canal on Sunday or Monday en route to Syria - an Iranian ally and Israel's enemy to the north. Egypt confirmed the ships...
05:04 PM, Feb 20, 2011
Jerusalem: Israel's deadly commando raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla that sparked global condemnation and its naval blockade of the coastal strip were on Sunday described as legal under international law by an Israeli probe and cleared the soldiers involved in the operation. The Turkel Committee report said Israel's actions had "the regrettable consequences of the loss of human life and physical injuries". Nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists were killed in the...
11:55 AM, Jan 24, 2011
Gaza: The Israeli navy took over an aid vessel that attempted to sail to Gaza on Tuesday despite a blockade to the occupied territory, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces said. No one was injured when the navy took over and boarded the boat, named the Irene, and the navy was taking the boat to a port in Ashdod, the IDF spokesman said. "The boarding of the yacht was...
04:42 PM, Sep 28, 2010
The captain of the ship told the Israeli navy on Tuesday night that engine troubles had hobbled the ship. ...
12:29 PM, Jul 14, 2010
The maritime blockade was to remain in force and ships would not be allowed to enter the strip. ...
03:31 PM, Jun 21, 2010
A report says Turkey may halt military cooperation with Israel and may not send back its envoy to Tel Aviv. ...
06:03 PM, Jun 16, 2010
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed retired Supreme Court judge Yakov Tirkel to head the commission. ...
10:54 AM, Jun 14, 2010
