Hamas rockets fall, Israel eyes escalation
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Hamas kept up rocket fire into Israel on Monday in defiance of a ceasefire call by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli threats to escalate military strikes in the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli officials on Sunday reported overnight airstrikes hit three Hamas locations in Gaza and, hours later, a Qassam rocket fired by militants wounded two civilians in Israel.
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The State Department called on Israel Friday to limit its military response to a rocket attack by Hamas that killed two small Israeli children.
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camp in what the army said was an open-ended operation to stop militants from firing rockets into southern Israel. Beersheba. Israel struck back on Tuesday, hitting a Hamas training camp and triggering vows of revenge.
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An Israeli airstrike killed two members of Hamas' military wing early Wednesday, Palestinian security sources said, as Israel kept up pressure on Palestinian militants in the West Bank and Gaza.
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GAZA CITY -- An Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a car traveling in the Gaza Strip late yesterday, killing a senior Hamas commander who was among the government's most-wanted fugitives -- the latest in a series of Israeli assassinations that have weakened the militant group.
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An Israeli missile strike killed at least two Hamas gunmen in Gaza City Monday, a day after a top commander of the Islamic militant group was killed in a similar attack
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Palestinian militants escalate rocket fire and Israel says it will keep up military pressure on Gaza.
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Hamas hardened its stance on Saturday after a new barrage of Israeli airstrikes killed five militants, saying it would not consider a truce and calling for more attacks on Israel.
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The attack underlines the potential of the violent Hamas-Fatah power struggle to spill over into Israel.
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JERUSALEM - Israel was responsible for a car bomb that killed a top Hamas leader in Syria yesterday, Israeli security sources acknowledged, in an escalation in Israel&#39;s battle against the Islamic militant group.
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Israel's security cabinet met on Wednesday to consider stepping up military assaults in Gaza to counter a wave of Palestinian rocket attacks that have killed two Israelis in the past week.
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Israel bombed the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza and closed border crossings with the strip on Friday, sharply escalating what it called a campaign to halt Palestinian rocket attacks.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Hamas threatens revenge for an Israeli helicopter attack in Gaza City that killed a Hamas militant. The Israeli Army says the rebel was involved in making and firing rockets at Israeli towns.
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Israeli air strikes killed five  Palestinians in Gaza Thursday after Hamas militants renewed  threats to rain rockets on nearby Israel despite a massive  16-day-old army offensive aimed at crushing them.
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Palestinian  rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza will stop, and Israel will withdraw its forces, senior officials say.
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A Hamas militant killed by Israeli army fire today was responsible for a rocket attack which killed two Israeli children last week, according to the Israeli army.