Israel moves on Gaza crossing after U.S. pressure
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Israel, under pressure from the United States, agreed to marginally loosen restrictions at Gaza's border crossing with Egypt on Thursday, but did not make any longer-term commitment to keep the frontier open.
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The Israeli defense minister has ordered troops to close border crossings that lead to and from the Gaza Strip, a spokesman said Friday
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Israel sought to put an end to a surge in rocket attacks from Gaza, sending its air force Friday against a symbol of Hamas power in the heart of Gaza City and simultaneously choking off shipments of fuel and food across its border with the strip.
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Israel resumed fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip's main power plant on Tuesday, offering limited respite from a blockade that had plunged much of the Hamas-ruled territory into darkness and touched off international protests.
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Israel opens part of the main goods crossing with the Gaza Strip, for the first time since Hamas seized control.
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Israel opened part of a major commercial crossing with Gaza on Thursday for the first time since the Islamist group Hamas seized control of the coastal strip two weeks ago, U.N. and Israeli officials said.
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Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip infiltrated into Israel at a key border crossing on Saturday, igniting a fierce gun battle in the biggest raid from the territory since an Israeli soldier was abducted a year ago.
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Israeli troops have moved into central Gaza in an operation to stop Palestinian militants firing mortars at nearby Jewish settlements.
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GAZA CITY, Sept. 4 -- Israel's high court ordered the military Tuesday to reroute the separation barrier near the West Bank village of Bilin, scene of sometimes rowdy weekly demonstrations that Israeli and Palestinian activists say helped bring about their rare legal victory.
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Israel tightened its closure of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday in response to cross-border rocket fire, preventing even U.N. humanitarian supplies from getting in, officials said.
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JERUSALEM -- The separation barrier in the West Bank will move closer to Israel in one area to minimize hardship to Palestinians, leaving three small Jewish settlements on the Palestinian side, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided yesterday.
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The Israeli government is under pressure from the supreme court and the attorney general to move its West Bank barrier closer to the 1967 frontier.
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Israel will not block Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas from assuming control of the Gaza Strip's breached border crossing with Egypt as part of an agreement with Cairo, Israeli officials said on Tuesday.
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CAIRO, Jan. 2 -- Egypt opened the gates of its main crossing into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday to allow thousands of Palestinian pilgrims to return home, outraging Israel in the two countries' growing dispute over border security.
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Israel let more than 200 laborers enter  from the Gaza Strip for the first time in months on Sunday in a  gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as he tries to  strengthen a cease-fire agreed last week.
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GAZA CITY, June 19 -- At the Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, a man with a three-day growth of beard and bluejeans raised his fist and let out a hoarse scream amid the stench and desperation of the dozens of men, women and children who have been gathered here for days, unable to go...
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Israeli soldiers crossed into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and killed two Hamas militants near the border as part of operations to counter rocket attacks against southern Israel.