Israeli military officials say soldiers shot and killed two Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip Sunday.
Authorities say the militants were killed by an Israeli gunship as they were attempting to set up an explosive device in an area where Israeli troops patrol.
Israeli shelling has killed at least three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to medical workers and witnesses.
Palestinian security officials say an explosion in the home of a Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip has wounded at least 17 people. Hamas says an Israeli air strike caused the explosion early Monday, but the Israeli military has denied involvement.
A potential confrontation on Wednesday was averted off the coast of the blockaded Gaza Strip.
After a two-day standoff on the high seas, a Libyan aid ship that planned to defy Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip changed course and docked in Egypt.
The U.S. urged Libya on Tuesday to avoid confrontation with Israel over a Libyan ship heading for the blockaded Gaza Strip with aid supplies for Palestinians.
The State Department also criticized Israel’s demolition of several Palestinian buildings in East Jerusalem.
Under international pressure, Israel is easing its crippling land blockade on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Israel’s security Cabinet gave final approval to allow a long list of non-military supplies into the Gaza Strip.
Arab states are stepping up the pressure on Israel to ease its grip on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The head of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, made a rare visit to Gaza and demanded an end to Israel’s three-year-old crippling blockade.
The Arab world’s most senior diplomat has arrived in the Gaza Strip. Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa was greeted at the Egyptian border town of Rafah Sunday by officials from Hamas and various Palestinian factions.
Israeli troops say they have taken control of an aid ship trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip. Israel’s military says soldiers boarded the Irish-owned Rachel Corrie from the sea and did not meet any resistance.
Israel is resisting international pressure over the flotilla raid this week in which nine people were killed while trying to run the blockade of the Gaza Strip. Israel has rejected demands by the United Nations for an international investigation into the deadly raid on the flotilla carrying pro-Palestinian activists.
Serbian citizen Srđan Stojiljković, a cameraman, was released by the Israeli government and is expected back in Belgrade soon. Stojiljković was being held in custody in southern Israel with other foreigners, after they were apprehended on a ship carrying humanitarian aid that was trying to break the Israeli naval blockade near the Gaza Strip earlier this week.
Israeli Ambassador Arthur Koll says that the UNSC would have to take into account the hostile nature of the organizers of a flotilla intercepted yesterday. The convoy of ships that said it aimed to deliver aid to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip was rerouted yesterday by Israeli Navy commandos, after armed confrontation aboard one of the ships that reports said left nine pro-Palestinian activists dead.
A confrontation at sea between Israeli commandos and pro-Palestinian activists has left at least 10 dead, VOA reports. Israeli forces intercepted an international flotilla that was trying to break a blockade and take hundreds of activists, as well as thousands of tons of humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip. The violence has triggered a strong condemnation from Turkey. Military and police forces in Israel remain on alert as Palestinians threaten to protest.
Israeli jets struck at midnight on Thursday three different targets belonging to militant groups in the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by Islamic Hamas movement. No injuries were reported, witnesses said.
Israeli troops and tanks are reported to have left the Gaza Strip after an incursion into the Hamas-controlled territory. The action followed what is being described as the worst clash in 14-months between Israel and Gaza militants.
A rocket fired from inside the Gaza Strip into Israel has struck a kibbutz and killed a foreign farm worker. It happened during a high-profile visit to the enclave by the EU’s foreign policy chief.
Violence declines between Israelis and the Palestinians
OVER 7,400 people have been killed in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians since the collapse of the Camp David peace talks in the summer of 2000 and the start of the second Palestinian uprising. More than eight in ten of the fatalities have been Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces, according to figures compiled by B’Tselem, an Israeli human-rights group. The early years of the uprising were the bloodiest for Israelis under attack from suicide bombers. But security in Israel improved progressively from the spring of 2002. Palestinians have felt the brunt of Israeli security actions, compounded by an internal Palestinian conflict. The Palestinian gun and suicide bomber largely gave way to rockets, of which thousands have been fired at southern Israeli towns from the Gaza Strip. For the past year, Israelis and Palestinians have experience a lull in violence. But how long will it last?
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An Egyptian soldier has been killed and 12 Palestinians wounded in a clash on the border of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. A gun battle erupted on the Gaza border, as Egyptian troops clashed with Palestinian stone throwers and gunmen from the ruling Islamic militant group Hamas.
