Israel Expands Gaza Strike, Kills 8 Palestinians
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The Israeli army killed eight Palestinians  in Gaza Friday as it poured tanks and soldiers into the coastal  strip, expanding a ground offensive intended to root out  militants firing rockets into Israeli towns.
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Israeli troops killed four Palestinians in a raid into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Sunday, witnesses said, and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed to step up attacks on militants who fire rockets into Israel.
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Israel carries out three air strikes in the Gaza Strip, killing six Palestinians, including a militant leader.
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Israel launched two air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing six Palestinians, including three senior Islamic Jihad militants it long sought for firing rockets and orchestrating other attacks.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel stepped up air strikes in its Gaza offensive, killing an Islamic Jihad leader, while backtracking on charges that militants used a UN ambulance to haul a rocket.
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An Israeli airstrike late Monday destroyed a house in the Gaza Strip, injuring at least eight people, officials said. The military said an Islamic Jihad command center was targeted but Palestinians said the building was empty.
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Israel has been stepping up its military raids in the Gaza Strip with its troops killing 12 Palestinians in the past two days. The action comes as Palestinian presidential contenders campaign for the January 9 elections.
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The Israeli army killed five Palestinians  in missile strikes Friday as it poured reinforcements into the  Gaza Strip, expanding a ground offensive intended to root out  militants firing rockets at Israeli towns.
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Five more Palestinians were killed Thursday in Gaza as Israel pushed on with a massive operation in the north of the territory despite criticism by officers that the offensive had become counter-productive.
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Israel killed eight Hamas militants, firing missiles into the sandy courtyard of a Hamas police station as the Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for a bold strike inside Israel, the first suicide mission in over a year
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Israel poured reinforcements into the  northern Gaza Strip on Friday, expanding a ground offensive  intended to stop rocket attacks on Israeli towns and killing  two Hamas militants in a missile strike.
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Israel killed at least 12 Palestinian militants in air strikes in the Gaza Strip that marked on Tuesday its most deadly military response in months to frequent rocket attacks from the Hamas-controlled territory.
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Fighting between Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least eight people as Hamas overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and Fatah set the Islamic University ablaze.
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Two Palestinian militants were killed and eight people wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza City Monday evening, Palestinian security and medical sources said.
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Israeli Army troops launched a second raid Wednesday on the southern Gaza city of al Meghraqa and arrested eight Palestinians, according to Palestinian security sources.
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Israel has escalated its military offensive in Gaza with an air strike on a militant stronghold that killed a senior Hamas leader.
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The Israeli army killed nine Palestinians  in Gaza Friday as it poured its forces into the coastal strip,  expanding a ground offensive intended to root out militants  firing rockets into Israeli towns.