Palestinian tries to sneak lion and monkey into Gaza
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While thousands of Palestinians flooded into Egypt to stock up on food, fuel and other staples after Islamist militants breached the border, one man bought a lion cub and a monkey to smuggle back home.
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An assassination attempt was made Sunday on the man who may replace Yasser Arafat as Palestinian chief. By Dan Murphy | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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JERUSALEM : A Palestinian preparing to carry out a suicide bombing at the main crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip was intercepted by guards, a military spokesman said.
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Marwan Barghouti, the popular militant leader imprisoned by Israel for his role in the Palestinian uprising, is relaying messages to new PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that could
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Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Bethlehem under heavy security this evening for Christmas celebrations. It was the first time in four years that a Palestinian leader has spent the holiday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
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Israeli soldiers crossed into the Gaza Strip early Thursday and took up positions on rooftops in the southern Gaza border town of Abasan, Palestinian witnesses and security officials said.
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NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip  - Palestinian police  began deploying in southern Gaza on Wednesday to prevent  attacks on Israelis under orders from moderate Palestinian  President Mahmoud Abbas, witnesses and security sources said.
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Israeli tanks rumbled into the northern  Gaza Strip on Sunday to try to stop cross-border rocket attacks  described by front-running Palestinian presidential candidate  Mahmoud Abbas as achieving nothing.
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Two Palestinian militants travelling in the Gaza Strip managed to escape an Israeli airstrike on their vehicle seconds before it exploded Tuesday, security sources and witnesses say.
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Mahmoud Abbas, favourite to become the new Palestinian president, is given a hero's welcome in Gaza.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian police were searching Tuesday for an Israeli Arab producer for CNN who was kidnapped at gunpoint from his van, and the TV network joined journalists' associations in demanding his immediate release.    It was not clear whether the kidnapping signaled a new practice by Palestinian militants - perhaps an attempt to copy Iraqi insurgents who have snatched dozens of foreigners - or whether the producer, Riad Ali, was taken for personal reasons...
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has ordered his security services to help secure the release of a CNN producer kidnapped by Palestinian militants in Gaza.
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Palestinian troops are being deployed in the northern Gaza Strip to prevent rocket attacks into Israel.
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LAHORE, Pakistan, Jan. 3 -- In the polished marble foyer of his mansion, former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif keeps two ferocious-looking stuffed lions. They were purchased in Africa, and they greet visitors with piercing eyes.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel's safari park is sending lions, zebras, and desert goats to a zoo in a West Bank town, a rare gesture of cooperation after four years of bloody conflict.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the first time Thursday ordered his elite presidential guard to strike back against Hamas militants bent on besieging his Gaza City compound.
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Palestinian security forces will be deployed along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel this week.