Gaza Strip cease-fire short-lived
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Gunfights erupted across the Gaza Strip Thursday, killing at least six people after Hamas militants hijacked a convoy delivering supplies to the rival Fatah-allied security forces, effectively destroying a short-lived truce.
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JABALIYA, Gaza Strip : Eight Palestinians, including a child and a teenage girl, were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip as Israel&#39;s army warned its massive offensive could last for weeks.
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GAZA CITY - Fighting in the Gaza Strip left three Palestinians and an Israeli soldier dead yesterday as Israeli forces crossed into the Palestinian territory to push Hamas gunmen back from the border. In one incursion, Israeli tanks and helicopters shelled the town of Beit Hanoun, drawing anti-tank rocket fire from the armed wing of Hamas. An Israeli reservist, a ...
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Factional violence raged in Gaza today between the rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, despite a new cease-fire that was supposed to have come into effect at 11 a.m.
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Little construction has taken place since Israeli soldiers and settlers pulled out of the Gaza Strip in summer 2005.
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The agreement seemed to stop short of meeting the demands of the international community on Hamas.
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An Israeli helicopter gunship fired at least one missile, killing 5 Palestinians and wounding more than 12, at an open area in Gaza City&#39;s eastern Al-Shijaiya district early Wednesday, August 18, 2004.
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The rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas reached a tentative cease-fire Sunday to end days of bloody fighting that had raised tensions in the Gaza Strip to their highest point in a decade, mediators said.
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A ceasefire began in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, heralding a possible end to Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel and a halt to a crushing Israeli military offensive.
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JERUSALEM, Nov. 26 -- The Israeli government agreed late Saturday to cease military operations in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a pledge by Palestinian armed groups to stop firing rockets into southern Israel, a tentative deal that leaders on both sides said could end months of violence in and...
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GAZA CITY -- Palestinians and Israelis moved closer to halting more than four years of bloody violence yesterday, with the new Palestinian leader saying he had made progress toward a truce deal with militants. Israel pledged for the first time to hold fire if calm prevails.
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BAGHDAD -- Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr may let a six-month cease-fire expire as soon as Saturday, a move that could send his Shiite militia fighters back out on the streets and jeopardize recent security gains that have led to a sharp decline in violence.
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JABALIYA, Gaza Strip : Eight Palestinians, including a child and a teenage girl, were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip as the army warned its massive offensive could last for weeks.
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JERUSALEM, Jan. 20 -- Gaza's only power plant ceased operating in the Gaza Strip on Sunday night, plunging much of the territory of 1.5 million Palestinians into darkness and winter cold. Palestinian officials said a three-day-old Israeli blockade had exhausted the fuel needed to run the plant.
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GAZA CITY -- Militant groups have agreed to temporarily halt attacks on Israel, a trial period before a formal truce agreement, to give Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas time to appeal to Israel to stop targeting militants, Palestinian officials said yesterday.
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Only hours old, the fragile cease-fire has already been interrupted by militant rocket fire.
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Hamas may be willing to agree to a cease-fire with Israel for one year, a senior official of the militant group said in an interview with an Egyptian newspaper. Hamas said it had not fired any rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip for days.