Israel declares Gaza "enemy entity" as Rice visits
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Israel declared the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" on Wednesday and said it would reduce its fuel and power supplies to the Hamas-run territory in response to rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
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SDEROT, Israel  - Palestinian militants in Gaza fired rockets into an Israeli town on Tuesday during a visit by the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, critically wounding one person, witnesses and ambulance workers said.
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Israel began cutting vital fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, following through on a promise to step up pressure on the area's Hamas rulers in response to months of Palestinian rocket attacks.
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An independent report commissioned by the United Nations compares Israel's actions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to apartheid in South Africa &#151; charges that have drawn angry rebukes from Israel.
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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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ANKARA/JERUSALEM  - Condoleezza Rice begins her  first visit as secretary of state to the heart of the Middle  East conflict Sunday with Israelis and Palestinians already set  on a new course of dialogue after four years of violence.
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Israel confirms that it has started cutting fuel supplies to Gaza, an attempt to stop the firing of militants' rockets.
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GAZA, Gaza Strip - The Palestinian militant group Hamas threatened today to target Israelis abroad after blaming Israel for the killing of a Hamas official in Syria.
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Arab and Islamic countries on Thursday condemned Israel for declaring the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity", and accused Israeli forces of killing Palestinian civilians, detaining parliamentarians, and destroying property.
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Israel killed nine Palestinians and injured 20 in military operations in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, and threatened a major ground sweep of the Hamas-run territory to stem cross-border rocket fire.
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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip  - The moderate  frontrunner in the race for Palestinian president called Israel  the "Zionist enemy" Tuesday after an Israeli tank killed seven  Palestinian youths in a Gaza strawberry field.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to press Israel to ease Gaza border restrictions, on her regional tour.
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A senior Hamas official on Monday accused the United States of "sowing sedition" among the Palestinians hours after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held a rare summit with the Israeli prime minister and Palestinian president.
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In an ongoing invasion of the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Khan Yunis, Israeli Occupation Forcesâ (IOF) tanks and warplanes have killed 9 Palestinians, wounded 22 others, demolished at least 38 Palestinian houses and forced hundreds of families
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Israeli ground troops entered the central Gaza Strip Wednesday night, a day after rocket fire from the Palestinian territory wounded dozens of Israeli soldiers. But the military described the incursion as routine and said it was not part of a large-scale mission.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - On her seventh visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories in under two years, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came away with no tangible results on Friday but said she saw promise in a Gaza truce.
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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.