Gaza News

Gaza - Security forces in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip are using technology to practice shooting on laser simulators, saving money spent on ammunition in the cash-strapped Palestinian territory.

Konya - Turkey hopes to soon close a difficult chapter with Israel sparked by a deadly commando raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla of aid ships in 2010, Turkish foreign minister told AFP.Nine pro-Palestinian Turkish activists were killed in the Israeli assault, spa...

Gaza - Gaza's sole power station will not resume operations until Monday, despite Israel reopening a crossing to fuel deliveries, the deputy chief of the Gaza energy authority said on Sunday.Officials had said Israel would allow the resumption of diesel deliv...

Gaza - The Gaza Strip's only power plant shut down Saturday due to a lack of fuel from Israel, which closed a goods crossing after militant rocket attacks, the energy authority said."The plant has completely ceased to function due to a lack of fuel caused by ...

Jerusalem - A truce declared by Gaza militants appeared to be holding on Friday with the Israeli military reporting no fresh rocket fire during the night after two days of tit-for-tat violence."It's all quiet, there has been no fire overnight," an army spokesman t...

After a small group of militants in the Palestinian Gaza Strip fired rockets at South Israel the Israeli military responded by launching air strikes against those militants' positions. Even after a ceasefire was re-implemented, more rockets were fired.

Gaza - Gaza's Islamic Jihad announced Thursday that an Egyptian-brokered truce had been restored following a brief but intense confrontation a day earlier when Israeli warplanes pounded the Strip after heavy cross-border rocket fire.

Gaza - Israel pounded nearly 30 targets in Gaza overnight after militants fired scores of rockets into the south, prompting Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas to demand Thursday that it halt its "escalation." The rocket barrage, which was the heaviest since an e...

Sderot - Israeli warplanes bombed nearly 30 targets in Gaza on Wednesday after the militant resistance group Islamic Jihad fired scores of rockets into southern Israel in retaliation for the assassination of a trio of Palestinian fighters.

Gaza - Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza fired more than 50 rockets at southern Israel on Wednesday, prompting a sharp warning from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.