Topic: Gaza Strip

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Young Jewish settlers behind attacks on Palestinian mosques have shaken Israel by turning violent against its most revered institution, the conscript military.The zealots' escalation from anti-Arab vandalism and arson to a rampage at an Israeli garrison in the occupied ...

Israel's army chief told a US Congress delegation in late 2009 he was preparing for a large war in the Middle East, probably against Hamas or Hezbollah, leaked US diplomatic cables showed on Sunday."I am preparing the Israeli army for a large ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Militants in Gaza used an advanced Russian-designed missile against an Israeli tank this month, Israel's military chief said on Tuesday, underscoring how smuggled weaponry has improved Palestinian combat capabilities.Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi's disclosures about the amour-piercing attack followed an Israeli ...

The Islamist Hamas movement on Wednesday released 100 prisoners in its Gaza enclave, including members of the rival Fatah, in honour of the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, authorities said.Hamas interior minister Fathi Hammad said the 100 pardoned prisoners ...

GAZA (Reuters) - Ramadan, the Muslim holy month where the devout fast by day and feast at night, is different in Gaza this year thanks to the partial relaxation of Israel's blockade, allowing shops to fill with special items for the occasion.Colorful ...

Egypt allowed 200 tonnes of medical aid unloaded from a Libyan ship into the blockaded Palestinian Gaza Strip enclave, an official said on Wednesday.A further nine trucks loaded with foodstuffs brought by the aid ship, the Jerusalem 5, will be sent to ...

Hamas on Wednesday announced new regulations on shops selling women's clothes as part of a campaign to safeguard "public morality" in its Gaza enclave.The police said shops selling women's clothes must not have dressing rooms or tinted windows, and that the mannequins ...

Israel's army chief vowed Tuesday to prevent Lebanese and Iranian aid ships from entering the Gaza Strip, saying the coastal enclave would not become an Iranian port, media reported."We have the right to inspect and prevent the flow of arms into Gaza," ...

An aid ship transporting medical supplies to Gaza is to leave Lebanon in the coming days with dozens of women activists on board, one of the organisers told AFP on Tuesday."We are all independent women who believe in breaking the (Israeli) siege ...

Former Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, who opposed Israeli pullout from Gaza, dies at 81A former chief rabbi who encouraged Israelis to oppose removal of settlements and blamed Reform Jewry for the Holocaust died Monday, a Jerusalem hospital said. He was 81.Mordechai Eliyahu ...