Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system is designed to intercept rockets fired by Hamas from up to 69km away in Gaza.
An Israeli operation against Gaza militants has killed 28 people and wounded more than 150 in the deadliest day of violence since 2012.
The South African government has called on the kidnappers of three Israeli teenagers to release them.
The former Israeli general and prime minister has died after suffering a stroke and spending the past eight years in a coma.
Judicial sources have revealed that Egypt’s deposed president Mohamed Morsi, alongside some Hamas members, will go on trial on January 28.
The Gaza Strip’s Hamas Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, on Saturday denied reports that his group has been involved in fighting outside of Palestine.
Hamas security forces in Gaza have been rounding up young men and forcing them to get haircuts on grounds that their hair is inappropriate.
Gaza’s third international marathon has been cancelled after the ruling Hamas movement refused to allow women to run.
Three weeks later, Gaza City has almost returned to what passes for normal in this overcrowded, impoverished and war-ravaged strip of land.
Thousands cheer claims of victory in last month’s war and warnings that more Israeli soldiers could be kidnapped.
Although Hamas leadership is in hiding, Israel’s missiles have failed to obliterate its authority, writes Chris McGreal in Beit Lahiya.
An explosion has hit a public bus in the heart of Tel Aviv, wounding at least 10 people, says Israel’s ambulance service.
The force used by Israel in its attacks on Hamas militants in Gaza is "disproportionate", the department of international relations said.
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/ 20 November 2012
The UN chief has called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the US Secretary of State has headed to the region with a peace message.
The number of Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s on-going offensive reached 100 on Monday, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said.
There are theories among Israelis and Palestinians about what has propelled the two sides towards their second war in four years.
Israeli strikes on Sunday killed 21 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in the bloodiest day of its bombing campaign over the Gaza Strip.
An Iranian lawmaker has denied his country had supplied Palestinian Islamist militants with missiles capable of hitting Israel’s commercial centre.
Israeli strikes in Gaza have pushed the death toll to 40 as the US claims militant rocket fire is a ‘precipitating factor’ in the conflict.
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.
In Gaza, the emergence of militant organisations beyond the control of the ruling Hamas make the consequences of Israel’s operation unpredictable.
Five Gazans were killed in Israeli air strikes as militants fired around 250 rockets over the border, killing three Israelis, officials have said.
Israel has killed the military commander of Hamas in an airstrike on the Gaza Strip, bringing the two sides to the brink of a possible new war.
Israel has announced it is considering resuming its contentious practice of assassinating militant leaders in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
Israel has warned Hamas that it will strike with "ever-growing intensity" in response to the latest barrage of rocket attacks into the Jewish state.
The Israeli navy have boarded and diverted a boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists seeking to breach Israel’s naval blockade on the Gaza Strip.
Gaza’s ruling Hamas movement and the Islamic Jihad group say they fired rockets at Israel in response to an air strike that injured 10 people.
Hamas will not do Iran’s bidding in any war with Israel, according to senior figures within the militant Islamic group.
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/ 12 February 2012
Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei has warned Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas against any "compromise" in its fight against Israel.
Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have agreed to form a new unity government in the West Bank and Gaza which will be headed by Mahmoud Abbas.
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/ 27 January 2012
An Israeli military court has ordered the speaker of the Palestinian legislative body to be jailed for six months without trial.
Khaled Meshaal, the political leader of the Palestinian Islamist party Hamas, is expected to retire at upcoming leadership elections.