Israel strikes Gaza; Hamas minister held
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Israel unleashed a new round of airstrikes on Gaza and arrested a second Hamas member of the Palestinian unity government in the West Bank on Saturday, Israel Defense Forces told CNN.
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Israeli troops arrested a Hamas cabinet minister early Saturday as part of a widening offensive against the group.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas threatened revenge after an Israeli helicopter blew up a car on a busy Gaza City street, killing a Hamas militant who was involved in making and firing rockets at Israeli towns.    Six bystanders were wounded, two of them seriously, hospital officials said...
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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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Israel attacked Islamist fighters in Gaza on Wednesday for the first time since Hamas seized the territory, and ended an embargo of the Palestinian Authority by opening contacts with a new government in the West Bank.
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An Israeli missile strike destroyed Hamas's Interior Ministry in Gaza City on Friday, but the building was empty at the time, Hamas security sources and local witnesses said.
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Israeli missiles pounded Gaza on Friday, killing two Hamas militants and shaking the home of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, as Palestinian factions argued among themselves on whether to stop firing rockets into Israel.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian minister and other officials on Thursday in a crackdown on Hamas, which defied a call by President Mahmoud Abbas to stop firing rockets at Israel.
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Israeli troops killed at least one Palestinian militant in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday, Hamas and local medical staff said.
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Israel has killed the top bomb maker of the Hamas Islamic militant group in a Gaza Strip air strike, days before a key parliamentary vote on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s plan to quit the occupied territory.
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Israeli warplanes struck the Palestinian Interior Ministry early Friday, setting it ablaze as Arab leaders tried to forge a deal that would halt the Israeli offensive and free a 19-year-old soldier held by gunmen allied with the ruling Islamic Hamas.
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Israeli troops backed by tanks and bulldozers crossed into southern Gaza to strike at Palestinian militants on Thursday, a day after Israel's defense minister said a broad operation inside the territory was inevitable. Three militants were killed and 12 people were wounded in the fiercest clash.
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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 radical Islamic movement, and Israeli troops arrested a Hamas cabinet minister, the second in less than a week.
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An Israeli airstrike in Gaza City tonight killed a leading Hamas weapons maker who was responsible for some of the group&#39;s most powerful bombs and its homemade rockets, Israel&#39;s military said.
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Israeli military forces carried out air strike overnight on a suspected militant target in Gaza City. Witnesses say Israeli gunships fired on the house of a local Palestinian militant leader late Thursday.
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Israel stepped up its campaign against Hamas Islamists on Saturday, killing at least five fighters in the Gaza Strip in a wave of air strikes and seizing a Palestinian cabinet minister in the occupied West Bank.
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Israeli troops killed a Hamas militant in a clash in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Hamas sources said.