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/ 26 December 2009
Israeli soldiers shot and killed six Palestinians in two separate incidents on Saturday in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
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/ 24 December 2009
Close to 20 South Africans will be descending on Gaza for a freedom march, despite the Egyptian government’s plan to close the Rafah crossing.
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/ 22 December 2009
Hamas blamed Israel on Tuesday for stalling efforts to swap hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for a captured soldier.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah will endorse a two-state solution but keep the option of ”armed struggle” with Israel.
Rival Palestinian factions have so far failed to overcome obstacles in reconciliation talks which they hope will lead to a unified governing body.
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/ 2 February 2009
Israel launched a series of air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, targeting a Hamas security complex and tunnels used to smuggle weapons.
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/ 20 January 2009
Voicing shock and anger at the ”heartbreaking” devastation, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to pledge aid.
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/ 19 January 2009
Israeli forces were pulling out of the Gaza Strip on Monday following a tentative truce with Hamas that allowed Palestinians to take stock of the war.
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/ 16 January 2009
Israel worked to secure guarantees on Friday that arms smuggling to Hamas militants would end under any deal to call off its three-week-old offensive.
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/ 15 January 2009
Israel struck fresh targets on Thursday and waged street battles in Gaza as the international community stepped up efforts to broker a truce.
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/ 14 January 2009
Israeli troops edged closer to the heart of Gaza City on Wednesday morning and international organisations expressed growing concern.
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/ 12 January 2009
Israeli leaders trying to find a knockout blow for Hamas militants defying a 17-day-old assault on Gaza have thrown army reservists into battle.
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/ 11 January 2009
Israel and Hamas vowed to keep fighting on Sunday, ignoring international calls to stop the Gaza conflict which entered a 16th day.
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/ 10 January 2009
In the houses at the edge of Zeitoun, dozens of Palestinian families woke to discover that Israel’s invasion had brought troops and tanks.
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/ 10 January 2009
The United Nations’ most senior human rights official said on Friday night that the Israeli military may have committed war crimes in Gaza.
Israel pushed ahead with its offensive in the Gaza Strip on Friday, ignoring a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Relief workers found four starving children sitting next to their dead mothers and other corpses in a house in a part of Gaza City bombed by Israel.
Israel, facing condemnation over the mounting death toll in its war on Hamas, ordered a temporary halt to bombing in part of Gaza on Wednesday.
Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state’s legitimacy.
Israel and Hamas studied an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the US and Europe.
Israel launched its offensive on Hamas with aerial bombardments on December 27 2008 to curtail Palestinian rocket attacks.
Israel on Monday pressed on with a deadly ground, sea and air offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip that has cut the territory in two.
Israel launched a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, sending tanks and infantry into battle with Hamas fighters.
Israeli tanks and infantry battled Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip on Sunday in a ground offensive launched after eight days of deadly air strikes.
Israeli troops clashed with Hamas fighters as they advanced into Gaza on Saturday in the first ground action of an eight-day offensive.
An Israeli air strike killed a senior commander of Hamas’s armed wing on Saturday while the Islamist group’s leader warned the Israeli army.
Hamas’s top leader warned Israel its army would be defeated if it invaded the Gaza Strip, while the United States said it envisioned a ceasefire.
Six days into Operation Cast Lead against Hamas in the Gaza Strip Israeli leaders are considering a range of military and political options.
Israel killed a senior Hamas leader in an air attack on his home on Thursday, striking its first deadly blow against the top ranks.
Israeli warplanes attacked government buildings in the Gaza Strip early on New Year’s Day after Israel and Hamas both spurned ceasefire calls.
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/ 31 December 2008
Gaza was largely quiet on Wednesday with just two air strikes reported, a stark contrast with the previous four days of heavy aerial bombardment.
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/ 30 December 2008
Israeli warplanes killed 10 Palestinians on Tuesday in attacks that targeted Hamas government buildings and other symbols of the Islamist group.