Israel arrests Palestinian minister, pounds Gaza
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Israel seized a minister in Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's cabinet on Saturday and pounded Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip as part of an expanded campaign against the ruling Islamist group.
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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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JERUSALEM: The Israeli government said on Monday it expects an upsurge in attacks by Palestinian hardliners before its Gaza withdrawal, as the assassination of a top Hamas fighter triggered a rocket attack in response.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and 32 other officials in the occupied West Bank and launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, stepping up a campaign against Hamas Islamists.
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Gunmen stormed an office of a Palestinian   news service under the control of President Mahmoud Abbas on   Tuesday, beating up one reporter and vandalising equipment,   witnesses and the news agency said.
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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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A Palestinian mortar bomb slammed into a  house in a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip Friday, killing  a woman and fueling settler anger over Prime Minister Ariel  Sharon's plan to pull Israelis out of the occupied region.
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Palestinian militants in Gaza launched rocket attacks into Israel Sunday, Israel police and army officials said, hours after a cease-fire in Gaza was agreed upon by the Israeli government and Palestinian factions.
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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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JERUSALEM, May 26 -- Israeli military aircraft fired on a Hamas post Saturday in the Gaza Strip, killing at least five gunmen from the Islamic movement, and Israeli troops arrested the second Hamas cabinet minister in less than a week.
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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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NABLUS, West Bank  - Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah arrested a Hamas lawmaker and a top interior ministry official in the occupied West Bank on Monday, security officials said.
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A candidate in next month&#39;s Palestinian presidential election was detained briefly Friday by Israeli authorities after allegedly assaulting a border policeman at a checkpoint.
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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 kill a Palestinian militant in Gaza, as the cabinet meets to consider stepping up offensives.
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Israel carried out an air strike near the Gaza residence of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on Friday but insisted he was not the target.
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Israeli missiles pounded the Gaza Strip on Friday, one of which hit near the home of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, as Palestinian factions argued among themselves over whether to stop firing rockets into Israel.