Hamas inflicts first Israeli combat death this year
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Israel lost its first soldier in combat in nine months on Thursday in a confrontation with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, where the Islamist group seized control over rival Palestinian factions a month ago.
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Ezz Eddine al-Qassam groups, the military wing of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas claimed responsibility for the operation held today and resulted in killing one Israeli soldier and injuring other four to the east of al-Shuja&#39;eya quarters in Gaza.
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A missile from an Israeli army Apache helicopter killed one Hamas militant early Wednesday and wounded several people in northern Gaza.
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A Hamas militant killed by Israeli army fire today was responsible for a rocket attack which killed two Israeli children last week, according to the Israeli army.
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Fresh fighting in Gaza between rival Palestinian groups kills one Hamas commander and injures 30 men.
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The killing of Hamas leader Izz ed-Din al-Sheikh Khalil in Damascus on Sunday marks another step in the struggle between Israel and the radical Islamic Hamas organisation which has been responsible for a recent spate of suicide attacks.
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Hamas and Fatah gunmen fought in Gaza City's beachfront neighborhoods and around security compounds Saturday, ignoring renewed truce appeals and Arab mediation efforts. One man was killed, raising the death toll from three days of fighting to 26.
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A senior Hamas leader survived an Israeli  assassination attempt in the Gaza Strip Wednesday but at least  five other Palestinians were killed in the explosion that tore  through his home.
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Israeli attack helicopters, warplanes and tanks hit a training camp in Gaza, used by the Islamic militant group Hamas. Palestinian sources say 14 militants were killed and another 30 people injured.
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The Israel Defense Forces said Sunday its air force attacked a car in Gaza City, killing a Hamas field commander. The IDF identified the dead man as Khalid Abu Salmiya, a member of Hamas&#39; military wing, Izzedine al Qassam.
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GAZA CITY: One of the leaders of Hamas&#39; military wing was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City early today, a Hamas spokesman said.
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JERUSALEM : A third fighter of the Palestinian hardline group Hamas was killed by Israeli forces during an infiltration bid in the Kfar Darom settlement of southern Gaza, Israeli military sources told AFP.
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Israel is examining a Hamas truce proposal delivered by Egypt, defense officials said Thursday after at least six Palestinians were killed in a day of Israeli air and ground strikes aimed at stopping rocket salvos from Gaza.
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Israeli troops killed a Hamas gunman during a clash near the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on Friday, the Palestinian Islamist group and medical workers said.
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Palestinian Islamist group Hamas says two of its fighters died in clashes with Israeli forces in Gaza.
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Rival Hamas and Fatah forces clashed in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least one person and injuring 12 others, in the worst flare-up of factional fighting in almost three weeks.
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The Israeli army kept up pressure in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, killing a senior Hamas commander, as forces sealed off the Palestinian territories for the Jewish holiday season in Israel.