GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Israeli troops made a brief incursion into Gaza early on Thursday to demolish several buildings which the army said were being used by "terrorist organisations".
Palestinians said the buildings were warehouses holding goods which had been transferred to the Gaza Strip via the nearby Karni crossing, which Israel shut down earlier this year.
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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - An Israeli air strike killed two Gaza militants on Sunday, threatening to prompt more tit-for-tat attacks a day after militants committed to calm if Israel reciprocated.
"Two Palestinians were killed and another wounded Sunday morning in an Israeli air raid on targets east of Jabaliya," said Gaza emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Selmiya.
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GAZA CITY (AFP) - Israeli warplanes bombed militant training camps in the Gaza Strip for a second time Saturday, wounding four people, including a toddler, Palestinian officials and medics said.
The jets hit two training camps of the Ezzedine al-Qassem Brigades, the armed wing of Gaza's ruling Hamas movement, in the southern city of Rafah, Hamas security officials said.
A family of four, inc [...]
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CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt is to open the Rafah border crossing to Gaza -- shut since anti-regime protests erupted on January 25 -- but only to allow Palestinians to enter the enclave, a security official said.
The crossing will be open on Friday from 7:00 pm to 9:00pm (1700 GMT to 1900 GMT) and on Saturday from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm (0900 GMT to 1400 GMT), the official told AFP.
"Palestinians wh [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Two rockets fired by militants in the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel on Tuesday evening but there were no reports of casualties, the Israeli army told AFP.
Israeli media said that the two home-built Qassam rockets landed in open ground near a kibbutz in the Sdot Negev district, just east of the coastal strip.
Two weeks ago, Gaza's main militant factions agreed to observ [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Gaza's Hamas rulers on Thursday ordered the security forces to ensure militant groups observed a truce on firing rockets at Israel a day after the factions agreed to comply.
Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya "issued instructions to the ministry of interior and to security chiefs to preserve the national consensus among Palestinian factions in the Gaza [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Hamas was holding "urgent" talks with militant groups on Wednesday to pass on a warning from Arab leaders about firing rockets at Israel, faction leaders told AFP.
The meeting was taking place at a Gaza City hotel just days after Hamas said it would ensure militant factions obeyed a national consensus truce on rocket fire, following weeks of rising ten [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Israeli warplanes renewed their air strikes in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of the consequences if Palestinian rocket fire continued.
The first air strikes on the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis killed a militant of the Islamic Jihad and wounded another man, Palestinian sources said.
The Israeli military confirm [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Israeli troops shot dead a 65-year-old Palestinian farmer on Monday in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical and security officials said.
The shooting occurred on the northeastern side of Beit Hanun, which lies very close to the Erez border crossing with Israel.
Adham Abu Selmiya, spokesman for the Hamas-run medical services, named the victim a [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli warplanes launched twin air strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight in response to rocket and mortar fire from the Hamas-controlled territory, an army spokesman said on Monday.
The strikes targeted "centres of terrorist activities, which have been hit", said the spokesman, referring to projectiles fired from Gaza over the weekend.
Israel considers the Islamist Hamas movem [...]
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