Militants and Israeli Troops Battle in Gaza
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A period of relative calm in the Gaza Strip was broken by a nearly hour-long battle between Palestinian militants and Israeli troops that left at least one Israeli soldier and one militant dead.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called Israelâs battle against the militant group that controls Gaza a âtrue war.â
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Palestinian gunmen broke through Israel's heavily fortified Gaza border and battled troops inside Israel for about two hours Saturday in a failed attempt to abduct an Israeli soldier. One of the raiders was killed.
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JERUSALEM -- Scattered clashes were reported yesterday around the Gaza Strip and West Bank, a day after fierce fighting between the ruling Hamas movement and rivals in the formerly dominant Fatah party.
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Fighting between rival Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least 17 people, as Hamas overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and two major universities were set ablaze.
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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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Israeli troops pushed into the outskirts of Khan Younis in Gaza Friday and clashed with Palestinian militants following rocket, mortar and anti-tank attacks.
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Gun battles erupt in the Gaza Strip between Hamas fighters and security forces, threatening a fragile truce.
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Seven Palestinians were killed in Gaza yesterday in fighting between rival armed factions, including a gun battle inside a hospital that left three people dead and several injured.
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Rival Palestinian forces exchanged fire in the Gaza Strip on Monday, residents said, despite appeals for calm from moderate President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.
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Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians,  including five militants, in Gaza on Saturday as the army  pressed on with a massive offensive aimed at stopping militants  firing rockets into Israel.
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Four Palestinian militants and an Israeli  soldier were killed Tuesday in the heaviest Gaza fighting since  Yasser Arafat's death, raising the prospect that renewed  violence could complicate a vote for his successor.
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Israeli troops today killed two Palestinian militants in Gaza and a soldier was wounded in an apparent bomb attack on the territory&#39;s border with Egypt.
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Gun battles erupted in the Gaza Strip on Thursday between Hamas gunmen and security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and at least six people were wounded in the violence that tested a 3-day-old ceasefire.
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Defiant Palestinian militants fired  rockets into an Israeli border town on Monday despite an  Israeli military offensive, the bloodiest in the Gaza Strip in  four years of conflict, intended to stop such attacks.
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Rival Palestinian forces clashed in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday near the strategic Karni commercial crossing in the most serious flare-up in factional fighting in more than two weeks.
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Seven Palestinians were killed in Gaza during fighting between rival armed factions.