Israeli troops pull back in Gaza as Hamas vows revenge
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Israeli forces pulled back on Thursday after a raid into the northern Gaza Strip a day earlier in which troops killed 11 people in clashes with local gunmen and prompted calls for revenge from Hamas militants.
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Israel will slow a planned pullback from West Bank cities because of Gaza violence that has frayed a de facto cease-fire and raised doubts Palestinians can keep militants in check, officials said on Tuesday.
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Hamas pledged revenge Tuesday for an Israel Air Force missile strike that hit a Hamas site in Gaza City around midnight Monday, killing at least 14 people, Palestinian sources said, and wounding 30.
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Hamas has vowed to hit back hard for Israel&#39;s assassination of the &quot;Father of the Qassam&quot; rocket, a weapon symbolising Palestinian militants&#39; defiance of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his plan to quit Gaza.
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Islamic resistance movement Hamas vowed Tuesday an immediate revenge after Israeli airstrike on a Hamas youth training camp in eastern Gaza City killed 14 Palestinians and wounded 30 others.
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JERUSALEM -- Hamas gunmen consolidated their hold over large swaths of the Gaza Strip yesterday after attacking military posts controlled by the rival Fatah movement, whose own fighters responded with a daylight raid in the West Bank, broadening the civil strife.
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JERUSALEM &#151; Israeli forces cut main Gaza roads on Thursday after militants fired rockets at an Israeli town, and soldiers tore down houses in a refugee camp on the Egyptian border.
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Israel has decided to scale back its bloody two-week military operation in northern Gaza, its largest operation there in four years of fighting.
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Hamas vowed revenge yesterday after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed one of its senior commanders - the latest assassination to have weakened the militant group.
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Islamist Hamas fighters and looters ransacked the blood-spattered Palestinian presidential compound in Gaza on Friday as their leader ordered an end to reprisals against their routed, Western-backed Fatah rivals.
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Hamas vowed on Friday to hit back hard for  Israel's assassination of the "Father of the Qassam" rocket, a  weapon symbolizing Palestinian militants' defiance of Prime  Minister Ariel Sharon and his plan to quit Gaza.
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An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed four   Palestinians, including a top Islamic Jihad militant, on   Saturday, prompting calls of revenge by the armed group to   continue targeting Israel in rocket attacks.
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Israeli troops and armor crossed into the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing six Palestinians, at least five of them militants from the Islamist Hamas group that controls the coastal territory.
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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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Israeli troops pull back from the Gaza refugee camp of Jabaliya after a three-day operation against militants.
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Palestinian security officers went on the rampage in Gaza City Tuesday to demand back pay from the cash-strapped Hamas-led government, while Israel pressed ahead with its offensive against Hamas militants, killing four.
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Israeli troops killed two Hamas militants in a shootout a mile inside Gaza on Tuesday, a day after Israeli leaders authorized larger numbers of ground forces to enter the volatile territory on pinpoint missions against Hamas rocket squads.