Israel pounds Gaza, arrests Palestinian minister
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Israel stepped up its campaign against Hamas Islamists on Saturday, killing at least five fighters in the Gaza Strip in a wave of air strikes and seizing a Palestinian cabinet minister in the occupied West Bank.
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Israeli forces fired rockets at the Gaza City on Monday, responding to an earlier attack launched by Hamas movement against an army post.
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Israel detains more than 30 senior Hamas officials, including the Palestinian education minister.
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Israeli aircraft fired missiles at the Palestinian prime minister&#039;s office early Sunday, just hours after a Palestinian official said the soldier whose abduction sent Israeli troops into the Gaza Strip is alive and in stable condition.
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Israel carries out arrests and fresh air strikes in response to persistent rocket attacks from Gaza.
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GAZA CITY -- Gunmen fired on the Palestinian foreign minister's convoy yesterday, and militants launched mortar shells at President Mahmoud Abbas's office in a daylong wave of factional violence that killed three people.
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Forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas overran two government ministries on Sunday, sealed off the area around his home and battled gunmen from the ruling Hamas group as chaos threatened Gaza.
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Israel killed Hamas's top bomb and rocket maker in Gaza and launched a missile strike on the home of another leading militant on Friday in the run-up to a key parliamentary vote on a plan to quit the occupied territory.
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Israel closed border crossings with the Gaza Strip and destroyed the Hamas-run Interior Ministry on Friday in what witnesses said was an air strike, stepping up what it says is a campaign to halt Palestinian rocket attacks.
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Israeli troops arrested a Hamas cabinet minister early Saturday as part of a widening offensive against the group.
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Israel pressed ahead with an air offensive in Gaza on Saturday, killing five Hamas militants, and arrested another Palestinian cabinet minister in the West Bank as Gaza militants fired more rockets into Israel.
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Gunmen fired at the house of a Hamas Cabinet minister, breaking windows, but causing no injuries, the politician said Saturday.
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Israeli soldiers arrested the Palestinian deputy prime minister Saturday, the highest-ranking Hamas official rounded up in a seven-week-old crackdown against the ruling party.
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Israel dealt a double blow to the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas on Wednesday, arresting a West Bank leader held responsible for a twin suicide bus bombing that killed 16 and killing two militants in Gaza air strikes.
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Israeli warplanes struck the Palestinian Interior Ministry early Friday, setting it ablaze as Arab leaders tried to forge a deal that would halt the Israeli offensive and free a 19-year-old soldier held by gunmen allied with the ruling Islamic Hamas.
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Israeli soldiers burst into the home of the Palestinian deputy prime minister before dawn Saturday and took him away for questioning, detaining the highest-ranking Hamas official in a seven-week-old crackdown against the ruling Islamic militant group.
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A bomb dropped by an Israeli warplane destroyed the Palestinian Foreign Ministry building in Gaza City early Thursday.