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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.
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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 unleashed its heaviest shelling of Gaza neighbourhoods on Thursday in what might be a final push against Hamas before a ceasefire.
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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
A divided United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday adopted a resolution condemning Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Kgalema Motlanthe this week slammed the attacks in Gaza, dubbing the offensive ”sheer savagery and brutality” that caused a ”deep sense of revulsion”.
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.
A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire with Israel.
Oil jumped to a three-week high on Monday after an Iranian military commander called for an oil boycott over Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli troops clashed with Hamas fighters as they advanced into Gaza on Saturday in the first ground action of an eight-day offensive.
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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/ 30 December 2008
The family house was small: three rooms, a tiny kitchen and bathroom, built of poor-quality concrete bricks with a corrugated asbestos roof.
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/ 25 December 2008
An Israeli air strike killed a Hamas gunman in the Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets and mortars into southern Israel.
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/ 20 December 2008
Israeli forces killed one Palestinian and wounded three others in an air raid on the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning.
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/ 15 December 2008
Thousands of young men in Gaza are becoming addicted to a prescription painkiller used to alleviate the stress of living in the besieged territory.
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/ 14 November 2008
Israel’s air force attacked a Hamas rocket crew in Gaza on Friday and Hamas rockets hit an Israeli city, in skirmishes threatening to wreck a truce.
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/ 5 November 2008
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired more than 35 rockets towards Israel on Wednesday, hours after the Israeli army killed six militants.
Hamas forces on Saturday battled Fatah gunmen with mortars and machine guns in a crowded Gaza City neighbourhood, leaving nine dead.
Israel again sealed off the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday in retaliation for a rocket attack the previous day in breach of a truce.
Gaza residents savoured a weekend of calm after months of bloodshed in the Palestinian enclave as a tenuous truce with Israel entered its second day.
A fragile truce between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas came into force in the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
Journalists in Gaza held a work stoppage on Monday as part of a protest to demand that Israel explain why its troops killed a Reuters cameraman.
Israel on Wednesday threw its weight behind Egyptian efforts to broker a truce with Hamas in and around Gaza but at the same time ordered its armed forces to prepare for a possible offensive.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert meets top ministers on Tuesday to weigh up a possible large-scale military offensive against the Gaza Strip to stop rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled territory.
Tony Blair has ruled out talks with Hamas until it recognises Israel and stops firing rockets.
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/ 12 November 2007
Gunfire killed at least six people and wounded 80 on Monday at a Fatah memorial rally for Yasser Arafat attended by hundreds of thousands of supporters of the defeated faction in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The rare Fatah rally broke up in chaos after gunfire rang out.
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/ 12 September 2005
The Israeli military lowered the national flag over its headquarters in the Gaza Strip for the last time on Sunday as the government declared an end to 38 years of military occupation and Israel handed over demolished Jewish settlements to the Palestinians.
As Israeli forces removed residents from the last Jewish settlement still to be cleared in the Gaza Strip on Monday, Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sought to win back support from the Israeli right by promising continued expansion of Israel’s West Bank colonies and no more unilateral pullouts.
Israeli troops on Monday began removing residents from the final Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip. Soldiers entered the Netzarim settlement five days after a combined Israeli police and army force began the forced evacuation of 21 Jewish settlements in Gaza.