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/ 16 September 2009
Both the Israeli army and Palestinian militants committed war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity, during the December-January Gaza war.
A radical Islamist sheikh was among 22 people killed and 120 hurt when Hamas police stormed a Gaza mosque, emergency services said on Saturday.
The second day of Fatah’s first congress in 20 years was marked by acrimonious rows on Wednesday as delegates demanded accountability.
Rivals Hamas and Fatah said prospects for a breakthrough have improved in their reconciliation talks, which continued in Cairo on Tuesday.
Sudan said on Friday it believed Israel was behind two attacks on suspected smuggler convoys which killed up to 40 people in the north of the country.
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.
Salam Fayyad announced on Saturday he would resign in a move to bolster unity talks between Fatah and Hamas, but Mahmoud Abbas has asked him to stay.
A member of a Gaza rocket squad was killed and two others were wounded on Saturday in what a Palestinian medic said was an Israeli airstrike.
Palestinian leaders were urging US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday to push Israel to freeze construction in West Bank settlements.
Hillary Clinton pledged on Tuesday to press for Palestinian statehood, putting Washington on a possible collision course with Benjamin Netanyahu.
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/ 26 February 2009
The rival Palestinian movements are holding reconciliation talks on Thursday aimed at paving the way for the creation of a unity government.
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/ 23 February 2009
Al-Qaeda’s No. 2 warned Palestinians in Gaza against accepting a truce with Israel in an audio message posted on extremist websites.
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/ 18 February 2009
Israel decided on Wednesday against lifting a Gaza border blockade until Hamas agreed to release a captured Israeli soldier.
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/ 17 February 2009
The fate of an Israeli soldier should not be linked to talks on a long-term truce with Hamas in Gaza, president Hosni Mubarak said on Tuesday.
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/ 13 February 2009
Gaza militants fired two rockets into southern Israel on Friday, only hours after a senior Hamas member said the Islamists had accepted a truce deal.
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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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/ 8 February 2009
Egypt is hopeful that a Gaza truce accord between Israel and Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas can be reached in the next few days.
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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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/ 7 February 2009
Israeli aircraft fired several missiles in the Gaza Strip on Friday after two rockets fired from the Hamas-controlled territory landed in Israel.
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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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/ 29 January 2009
Israel’s strike on Gaza on December 27 — which according to Hamas has killed 1 300 Palestinians — continues to reverberate around the world.
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/ 29 January 2009
A Gaza ceasefire came closer to unravelling on Thursday despite efforts by US President Barack Obama’s Middle East envoy to reinforce the truce.
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/ 29 January 2009
Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hamas on Thursday of pursuing its ”terror efforts” despite a ceasefire in the Gaza war.
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/ 29 January 2009
An Israeli warplane on Thursday bombed an area of the Gaza Strip border known to contain smuggling tunnels to Egypt, the military said.
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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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/ 26 January 2009
Sderot’s open-air market is open and bustling for the first time in a month, thanks to newfound quiet following Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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/ 26 January 2009
Hamas officials stepped in on Sunday to offer cash handouts worth a total of $52-million to Gazans who had lost family members, homes or businesses.
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/ 23 January 2009
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has put the justice minister in charge of defending Israel against charges of war crimes during its Gaza assault.
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/ 21 January 2009
The war in Gaza may have ended but the territory remains under Hamas rule and Israeli sanctions, which could hinder efforts to rebuild the enclave.
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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.