This brutal siege of Gaza can only breed violence
688385
Comment is free: Karen Koning AbuZayd: Palestinian suffering has reached new depths. Peace cannot be built by reducing 1.5m people to a state of abject destitution
462155
Despite conflict, Israelis try to help Gazans to whom they have longstanding ties.
148818
Rival Palestinian factions fought their most intense battles in weeks on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, raising the weekend toll to five dead and 45 wounded.
106275
Rival Palestinian factions battled in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, raising the weekend toll to four dead and 44 wounded in the fiercest internal fighting since a ceasefire was declared nearly a month ago.
311226
Israel fired missiles and sent tanks on a foray into Gaza on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians in the deadliest military action since Hamas militants took control of the coastal strip. At the same time, Israel allowed in a few sick and wounded Palestinians of the hundreds of people who fled the violence &#151; with many holed up for days at a fetid border passage with Gaza.
373959
A truce between rival Palestinian factions in Gaza appears to take hold after days of deadly clashes.
462132
The nature of Israeli occupation will not change overnight. The savagery that the Sharon government adopts in dealing with the Palestinians will not change.
327883
Ariel Sharon&#39;s massacre in the Gaza Strip is nominated for a dragging continuous phase. The reason is not because the short-range Al-Qassam rockets are thumping targets inside the Hebrew State and impeding
530289
Fears that the struggle to find a new Palestinian leader could bring bloodshed and instability were confirmed last night when the PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas was caught in a gun battle during a visit to Gaza.
323587
"All kinds of militias and military groups are banned, no matter to whom they belong"  Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday killed eight Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy, Palestinians said, the bloodiest fighting in the area since the Hamas militant group violently seized control two weeks ago.The outburst of violence came as the 'Quartet' of Mideast peace mediators was expected to name outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as its new envoy. A formal announcement was expected later in the day, but Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said Blair had already accepted the post. Read more
142066
The Zionist armyâs attacks on residential areas in Gaza reached a peak over the past week. So far, at least 63 defenseless people from Gaza have been martyred in Israelâs military operation, codenamed Days of Penitence.
33862
Three are killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip as Palestinian factions challenge the authority of Hamas.
694527
Palestinian gunmen exchanged gunfire in the Gaza Strip early Sunday, killing one person and wounding seven in the latest flare-up of violence between the rival Hamas and Fatah groups which underscores the fragility of their power-sharing deal.
259966
One person was killed and 23 were wounded in fierce gunbattles on Sunday between rival Palestinian security forces in Gaza over unpaid wages and stalled government unity talks, medics and witnesses said.
269267
Several weeks of relative calm in the Gaza Strip ended with an explosion and gunfire on Tuesday. One Israeli soldier died and four others were wounded in a bomb blast
143686
Gunbattles raged between Hamas loyalists and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's forces in Gaza City on Tuesday, killing at least three people and reviving fears the strip could slip into civil war.
152077
Violence flared in Gaza as Israeli troops pulled back from a two-day raid on a Palestinian refugee camp that killed 11 people. Palestinian.