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Israeli airstrikes killed two Palestinian militants and a schoolboy in the Gaza Strip on Monday as Palestinian rocket squads barraged southern Israel in escalating fighting that has defied international truce efforts. More...

Jerusalem (CNN) -- Palestinians traveling to Egypt stormed a gate at the border crossing on Saturday after waiting for hours in buses, Gaza officials told CNN. It is the first kink in cross-border travel after Egypt reopened the crossing with Gaza last week, a symbolic move that signaled the...

(CNN) -- On the first anniversary of the Israeli raid on a flotilla headed to Gaza, organizers of another flotilla planned for June held a news conference Monday that concluded with a minute of silence for the nine activists killed in that raid. The event was held on the Mavi Marmara, the ship...

Israeli troops shot Palestinian protesters who surged toward its frontiers with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza on Sunday, killing at least 13 people on the day Palestinians mourn the establishment of Israel in 1948. In the deadliest such confrontation in years of anniversary clashes usually confined...

PALMACHIM AIR BASE, Israel – Israel has put together a multilayered shield designed to intercept rockets and missiles capable of striking it from as close as the Gaza Strip and as far away as Iran, reflecting concern that future conflicts will target Israel's civilian population centers. At...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A Hamas official says two suspects have been arrested in connection with the abduction and murder of an Italian activist in the Palestinian territory. Ihab Ghussein, a Hamas Interior Ministry spokesman, said Saturday the suspects are still being interrogated and...

-- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday against initiating "any new assault" on Gaza, state-run Nile TV reported. The warning came as the two Middle East leaders met in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss the stalled peace talks between Israel...

Israeli fighter jets attacked two targets in the Gaza Strip early Saturday in retaliation for a spate of militant rockets launched into Israel this week, an Israel Defense Forces spokeswoman said. A Hamas security official in Gaza said one person was injured in the attack. "In response to the...

Two members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad were killed and an Israeli soldier was wounded in a clash Saturday in Gaza, Palestinian and Israeli officials said. The incident occurred Saturday evening when Israeli soldiers saw two suspects near a security fence in the central Gaza Strip...

Jerusalem -- The Israeli air force said Saturday that it struck a smuggling tunnel in Gaza in response to rocket fire aimed at communities in Israel. The airstrike occurred close to midnight Friday, said a spokeswoman for the Israel Defense Forces. Earlier Friday, Israeli military officials...

Jerusalem -- A Gaza humanitarian convoy that includes passengers who survived a previous fatal flotilla incident has been delayed and is expected to set sail Monday in an attempt to deliver aid for Palestinians, organizers said. The Viva Palestina convoy, hailed by organizers as the largest...

Egypt says rockets fired by Gazans CAIRO, Egyptian officials allege Palestinians from Gaza entered the Sinai and fired rockets at the southern Israeli town of Eilat and the Jordanian town of Aqaba. In Monday's rocket attack, a Jordanian citizen was killed and four others injured after five...

Blast shakes Gaza Strip GAZA, A powerful explosion in the Gaza Strip Sunday rocked the home of a senior Hamas military commander, the BBC reported. The British network said Hamas sources told it the militant leader, Alaa al-Danaf, escaped injury but his brother Abed was among up to 30 people...

Departing British envoy criticizes Israel ERUSALEM, The departing British ambassador to Jerusalem blamed Israeli policy for making Hamas stronger in Gaza in a farewell interview this week. Tom Phillips, who will next become ambassador to Saudi Arabia, told The Jerusalem Post the blockade of...

Report: Flotilla Turks shot multiple times GAZA, (UPI) -- Most of the nine Turks killed during the Israeli commando raid on a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza had multiple gunshot wounds, forensic evidence indicated. Turkish government forensic specialists conducted the test, the Australian...

Report: Israel has new Gaza plan JERUSALEM, (UPI) -- Israel's military has drawn up plans to evacuate entire villages and refugee camps in Gaza if a new conflict with Hamas erupts, the Jerusalem Post has learned. The Post says in an exclusive report Wednesday that the evacuation plan partially...

Israel prepares to stop new Gaza flotilla JERUSALEM, (UPI) -- The Israeli military says it will intercept this weekend's Gaza-bound Lebanese flotilla with the same commandos used against a previous Turkish convoy. Two ships are expected to leave from Lebanon for Gaza: one allegedly carrying 25...

'Quartet' welcomes easing of Gaza blockade JERUSALEM, (UPI) -- The Middle East Quartet Monday welcomed Israel's loosening of its Gaza blockade rules. In a statement released by the U.S. State Department, the Quartet -- which consists of the United States, the European Union, Russian...

Israel eases Gaza Strip blockade JERUSALEM, (UPI) -- Israel said Sunday it would ease its Gaza Strip blockade, allowing all goods in except those on a black list of forbidden goods. The Israeli government gave final approval to the new policy, but the black list has not been written and the...

Arab League chief visits Gaza GAZA, (UPI) -- The leader of the Arab League visited Gaza Sunday, the first senior Arab official to do so since Hamas took control in 2007, officials said. The visit by league Secretary-General Amr Moussa was partly to add to the pressure on Israel to end its Gaza...