Abandoned Israeli farms cling to life in evacuation zone
Kibbutz Snir, Israel Reuters In an abandoned kibbutz in Israel’s evacuation zone near the Lebanese border, Lior Shelef has stayed behind to keep watch as a reservist in a protection force. He still tends the cows and chickens, even as Hezbollah rockets keep coming closer. The chicken coops had been damaged in a rocket attack […]
Israel pounds Gaza after deadly Hamas raid as conflict threatens to spiral
Jerusalem/Gaza Reuters Israel pounded the Palestinian enclave of Gaza on Sunday, killing hundreds of people in retaliation for one of the bloodiest attacks in its history when Islamist group Hamas killed 700 Israelis and abducted dozens more. Hamas fighters’ rampage through Israel towns on Saturday was the deadliest such incursion since Egypt and Syria’s attacks […]
Israeli jets hit Gaza as fighting escalates after hunger striker death
Jerusalem/Gaza Reuters Israeli jets hit targets across the Gaza strip on Tuesday, in response to rocket barrages fired by militant groups earlier in the day following the death of a Palestinian hunger striker in Israeli custody. Plumes of smoke spiralled into the night sky as the jets hit targets including training camps of Hamas, the […]
Tensions high in Israel after deadly attacks
Tel Aviv, IsraelReuters An Italian tourist was killed and five people were wounded in a car ramming in Tel Aviv on Friday that came hours after two Israeli sisters were killed in a shooting attack in the occupied West Bank. The attacks, after a night of crossborder strikes in Gaza and Lebanon, added to an […]
Israel, Palestinians set for Gaza truce from Sunday night
Gaza/Jerusalem Reuters Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group agreed to a Cairo-mediated truce to take effect late on Sunday, both sides said, raising hopes of an end to the most serious flare-up on the Gaza frontier in more than a year. Since Friday, Israeli forces pounded Palestinian targets through the weekend, triggering longer-range […]
Air strikes, rocket attacks push Israel, Gaza into second day of fighting
Gaza/Jerusalem, Israel Reuters Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza while the militant Islamic Jihad group fired hundreds of rockets into Israel on Saturday as a cross-border clash continued into a second day, killing at least six people, including four children. Hamas, the Islamist group which controls the enclave, said the children were among the dead from […]
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 10, including senior militant; Palestinians launch rockets
Gaza City, Gaza Strip AP Israel unleashed a wave of airstrikes Friday on Gaza, killing at least 10 people, including a senior militant, according to Palestinian officials. Israel said it targeted the Islamic Jihad militant group in response to an “imminent threat” following the recent arrest of another senior militant. Hours later, Palestinian militants launched […]
Israel air strikes kill 42 Palestinians, rockets fired from Gaza
Gaza/JerusalemReuters An Israeli air strike in Gaza destroyed several homes on Sunday, killing 42 Palestinians, including 10 children, health officials said, as militants fired rockets at Israel with no end in sight to seven days of fighting. The Israeli military said the civilian casualties were unintentional. It said its jets attacked a tunnel system used […]
Death toll rises as violence rocks Gaza, Israel and West Bank
Gaza/JerusalemReuters Israeli planes renewed air strikes in Gaza early on Saturday and Hamas militants responded by firing rockets into Israel as their battle entered a fifth night and US and Arab diplomats sought an end to the violence. Palestinian medics said at least four people were killed in one of several air strikes in northern […]
Dozens dead as Israel and Hamas escalate aerial bombardments
Gaza/JerusalemReuters Hostilities between Israel and Hamas escalated on Tuesday, raising the death toll in two days to 30 Palestinians and three Israelis, with Israel carrying out multiple air strikes in Gaza and the Islamist militant group firing rockets at Tel Aviv. A 13-story residential Gaza block collapsed after one of several dozen air strikes. Late […]