Israeli strikes on Sunday killed 21 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in the bloodiest day of its bombing campaign over the Gaza Strip.
US President Barack Obama on Sunday said it was "preferable" for the Gaza crisis to be ended without a "ramping up" of Israeli military action.
An Iranian lawmaker has denied his country had supplied Palestinian Islamist militants with missiles capable of hitting Israel’s commercial centre.
Israel was condemned on Thursday by much of the Arab world while securing Western backing and pressing its biggest air assault on Gaza for years.
Five Gazans were killed in Israeli air strikes as militants fired around 250 rockets over the border, killing three Israelis, officials have said.
Israel launched raids on targets in the Gaza Strip as military top brass weigh a stronger response to rocket fire from the Palestine authority.
Israel killed three Palestinian militants on Sunday, a day after two men identified as senior al-Qaeda affiliates in Gaza died in an air strike.
Egypt’s army has massed troops and carried out arrests to quell deadly militants in the Sinai Peninsula close to the borders with Gaza and Israel.
A visit by Gaza’s Hamas leader has angered official Palestinian representatives in Tunisia who say they were ‘ignored’ during the talks.
Egypt’s two main Islamist parties claim to have together taken 62% of the vote in the general election’s final stage, maintaining their overall lead.
Organisers of an aid convoy say they are passing through several African cities on their way to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Despite a lack of training, equipment, funding or an audience, two artists are determined to succeed as film directors.
Irish activists on Thursday accused Israel of sabotaging a ship that had been due to join a flotilla to challenge an Israeli blockade of Gaza.
The United States warned activists on Friday against plans to send a new aid flotilla to challenge Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.
The popular revolutions across the Arab world have given Palestinians anew sense of hope.
Israel killed four Palestinian militants and wounded half a dozen others as it pursued air raids in Gaza for a third day on Saturday.
A senior Israeli intelligence official has warned of the dangers of renewed attacks on Israel by Hamas militants based in the West Bank.
Israel’s Security Cabinet met again on Thursday to discuss easing a four-year blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
Shock and outrage swept the globe on Monday after Israeli commandos stormed a flotilla of aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip.
Turkey told Israel that it would "suffer the consequences" after activists were killed when Israeli commandos boarded a convoy of aid ships.
Israel said on Wednesday the use foreign-born Israeli identities by a hit squad suspected of killing a Hamas militant did not prove Mossad did it.
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/ 15 October 2009
Hamas on Thursday asked for more time to consider a unity deal and demanded that it include a clause on the right to resist Israeli occupation.
Eleventh-hour talks on a Israel-Hamas prisoner swap appeared to collapse on Tuesday as both sides accused each other of about-turns and bad faith.
Rival Palestinian factions have so far failed to overcome obstacles in reconciliation talks which they hope will lead to a unified governing body.
Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip killed three militants just hours after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ended her first Middle East trip.
Palestinian leaders were urging US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday to push Israel to freeze construction in West Bank settlements.
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/ 11 February 2009
An Islamist opposition activist was sentenced to two years in jail on Wednesday by a military court for crossing illegally into the Gaza Strip.
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/ 7 February 2009
The United Nations was on Saturday awaiting the promised return of hundreds of tonnes of food aid for Gaza that was "mistakenly" seized by Hamas.
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/ 28 January 2009
Israeli human rights groups called for an inquiry on Wednesday into the ”inhuman” treatment of Palestinians taken prisoner during the Gaza offensive.
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/ 28 January 2009
Israeli aircraft struck at tunnels used for smuggling goods and weapons on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on Wednesday.
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/ 27 January 2009
A soldier was reported killed close to the border with Gaza Strip on Tuesday in what Palestinians said appeared to have been an attack by militants.
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/ 21 January 2009
Israeli troops completed on Wednesday their withdrawal from the Gaza Strip after a 22-day offensive against the Islamist Hamas movement.