Israel: Hamas-controlled Gaza 'hostile'
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The Israeli security Cabinet declared Hamas-controlled Gaza an "enemy entity" Wednesday in response to continued Palestinian rocket attacks, Israel Radio reported.
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon calls on Israel to think again over its move to declare Gaza a "hostile entity".
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Hamas' path in consolidating control in the Gaza Strip:
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An Israeli security source tells the BBC that Israel was involved in the killing of a Hamas activist on Sunday.
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The ruling Hamas faction deployed armed militants in key parts of the Gaza Strip on Friday, one day after it accused rival Fatah forces of trying to kill Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas sources said.
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Hamas gunmen seized control of the Gaza Strip's border crossing with Egypt on Thursday in a ferocious gunbattle with Fatah-allied border guards after Israel blocked the Hamas prime minister from crossing with tens of millions of dollars in aid.
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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip  - Moderate Palestinian  leader Mahmoud Abbas called Israel "the Zionist enemy" for the  first time Tuesday after an Israeli tank killed seven  Palestinian youths in a Gaza strawberry field.
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Israel cautioned the European Union on  Monday against going soft on a Palestinian government including  the Islamist group Hamas, saying this could lead to &quot;more  terror.&quot;
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Israel reduced the flow of fuel to Hamas-controlled Gaza on Sunday, a move it vowed to take in response to "the incessant firing of rockets into Israel," an adviser to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said.
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JERUSALEM -- Hamas dealt Israel its first combat death in nine months yesterday during an Israeli Army raid on a stronghold of the movement's military wing in the Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM, Oct. 1 -- The Palestinian security service controlled by Hamas moved forcefully in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to disperse demonstrators loyal to the rival Fatah movement who were demanding months of back pay from a nearly bankrupt government. At least four civilians were killed, including...
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Israel declared the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" on Wednesday and said it would cut utilities to the territory. The move complicates a U.S. plan to relaunch peace talks aimed at establishing a separate Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Israel lost its first soldier in combat in nine months on Thursday in a confrontation with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, where the Islamist group seized control over rival Palestinian factions a month ago.
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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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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya reiterates that his Hamas-led government will not recognise Israel.
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Israeli forces seized control of parts of the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a day after soldiers killed 14 Hamas fighters in the deadliest strike against the leading Palestinian militant group.
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CAIRO/GAZA  - The militant Islamist group Hamas warned Israel on Saturday of a third uprising unless there was progress toward a Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders.