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Israeli air strikes wound three in Gaza: Hamas

Reuters US Online Report World News 2 days ago

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes bombed two smuggling tunnels and a military training compound in the Gaza Strip Thursday, wounding three people, said officials in the Palestinian territory ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement. An Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed the air strikes ...

Hamas-linked group offers cash for Israeli capture

AP News 2 days ago

Hamas-loyal Gaza group offers $1.4 million bounty for capture of an Israeli soldier A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier. Palestinians ...

Israel, Hamas wary on talk prisoner swap imminent

Reuters US Online Report World News 2 days ago

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and Hamas reacted cautiously on Wednesday to reports a deal to exchange hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held in the Gaza Strip might be concluded by the end of this month. Sources on both sides ...

Hamas makes U-turn over Palestinian national day

Reuters US Online Report World News 6 days ago

GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas authorities did an about face on Saturday and dropped a plan to keep schools in the Gaza Strip open on a Palestinian holiday founded by the rival Fatah faction. An official with Gaza's Education Ministry said schools would ...

Bees provide pain relief in beleaguered Gaza

AFP Global Edition 6 days ago

In a clinic in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, Ratib Samur makes his way from one patient to the next armed with little more than a small box filled with enraged bees. He uses the bees to sting those who have come to ...

Israeli troops kill Palestinian on Gaza border

AFP Global Edition 7 days ago

Israeli troops at the border with Gaza on Friday shot and killed an 18-year-old they said was suspected of planning to carry out an attack but Palestinian witnesses said he was hunting birds. Another Palestinian was wounded and was detained along with ...

Israel general says Hamas curbing Gaza rocket fire

Reuters US Online Report World News 7 days ago

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Hamas has suspended its rocket launches against Israel since the Gaza Strip war and is similarly curbing other armed Palestinian factions in the territory, Israel's military chief said on Friday. The rare Israeli recognition of Hamas restraint came as ...

Israel kills Palestinian in Gaza confrontation

Reuters US Online Report World News 7 days ago

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian and wounded two others in a confrontation near a Gaza Strip border crossing Friday, the Israeli army and Palestinian medical workers said. A rocket fired from Gaza struck later in an open ...

Israeli troops kill Palestinian along Gaza border

AP Features 7 days ago

Israeli troops killed a Palestinian man along the Gaza Strip border early Friday, both sides said, but the circumstances of the incident were unclear. The Israeli military said soldiers opened fire at a group of five men who "appeared to be planting ...

Palestinian elections postponed

AFP Global Edition 7 days ago

The Palestinian electoral commission has said the elections called for January should be postponed because the vote can not take place in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. "I regret to say it is unfortunate that the elections will be postponed," commission head Hanna ...

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