Israel pressed on with its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip for a fourth day on Tuesday despite new international calls for a ceasefire.
Israel pounded Gaza on Monday as the defence minister said the offensive against Hamas militants would go on until Israel was safe.
Israeli warplanes carried out intensive raids on Hamas targets on Monday as ground troops surrounded Gaza’s main city.
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 warplanes pounded militant targets including a mosque in Gaza on Friday as Hamas ordered a ”day of wrath” against Israel.
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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/ 29 December 2008
Israeli air strikes flattened Hamas government buildings in the Gaza Strip and targeted leaders of Gaza’s Islamist groups on Monday.
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/ 29 December 2008
Israeli warplanes pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip for a third consecutive day on Monday and prepared for a possible invasion after killing 307.
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/ 28 December 2008
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday he had asked his fighters to be on alert for any possible Israeli attack on Lebanon.
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/ 27 December 2008
Israeli warplanes and helicopters pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 225 people.
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/ 27 December 2008
Israeli aircraft launched a massive wave of air strikes on Hamas compounds inside the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 120 people.
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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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/ 22 December 2008
Palestinian armed groups in Gaza are observing a 24-hour halt to rocket fire against Israel at the request of Egyptian mediators, an official said.
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/ 22 December 2008
Israel has launched a diplomatic campaign to gather international support for a major offensive on Hamas-ruled Gaza, officials said on Monday.
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/ 19 December 2008
Tension surged in and around Gaza on Friday as Hamas declared an end to the troubled truce with Israel and warned they would respond to any attack.
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/ 25 November 2008
Israel has again sealed off the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire, only a day after the border was opened to allow in humanitarian supplies.
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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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/ 7 November 2008
Hamas has threatened to boycott next week’s Palestinian reconciliation talks, accusing president Mahmoud Abbas of arresting hundreds of its members.
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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.
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/ 21 October 2008
A prominent Palestinian human rights group says it has found evidence that 68 children were killed in the Gaza Strip in the 12 months to June.
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/ 18 September 2008
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has appealed to the UN Human Rights Council to show concern for protecting Israelis from Palestinian attacks.
Hamas forces on Saturday battled Fatah gunmen with mortars and machine guns in a crowded Gaza City neighbourhood, leaving nine dead.
The meeting was not supposed to be public. The man invited into Ehud Olmert’s residence was Aviam Sela, architect of Operation Opera in 1981.
Israel kept three border crossings with the Gaza Strip closed on Wednesday following rocket attacks that breached a truce with Hamas rulers.
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.
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 forces killed a nine-year-old Palestinian girl and a militant in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
Hamas’s exiled political chief, Khaled Meshaal, said his Palestinian Islamist movement was ready for dialogue with its rivals in Fatah during a meeting on Monday with Syria’s foreign minister.
Tony Blair has ruled out talks with Hamas until it recognises Israel and stops firing rockets.