...for a rocket strike on Israel, officials said. Two explosions were heard in Gaza City, one north of the city and one in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. Palestinian medics and witnesses said all the...

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...group Hamas, for failing to enforce Sharia law. Hamas forces responded to his sermon by surrounding his Ibn Taymiyya mosque complex and attacking it. In the fighting that ensued, 24 people (including...

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...earlier this month. Twenty-eight people died a gunbattle between Hamas police and the group that took place in and around a mosque in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah two weeks ago. The battle began after...

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...and institutions. One of the groups, Swords of Right, urged residents of the Gaza Strip to stay away from Hamas-run institutions and mosques because it was planning to attack them soon. Another group, Ansar...

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...Hamas' long-held goal. While Israel's unity talks stumble forward, the rival Palestinian Fatah and Hamas are on a fast-moving secret track towards a power-sharing accord. It is Abbas' intention to...

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...border and a disused Hamas security base near the town of Khan Younis. The Hamas base had already been largely reduced to rubble in previous attacks since the Jan. 18 end of Israel's land campaign in the...

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...the Islamic Jihad group said. Israel's military, revising an earlier statement, said its forces killed a gunman who tried to infiltrate through its Gaza border fence. Islamic Jihad identified him as a...

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...Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Some 1,300 Palestinians were killed, including an estimated 700 civilians, according to a Gaza human rights group, in Israel's offensive. Thirteen Israelis -- 10 soldiers and...

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...Gaza Strip, court papers said. Spanish law allows the prosecution of foreigners for such crimes as genocide, crimes against humanity and torture committed anywhere in the world. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud...

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...and arms-smuggling tunnels. After 12 days of fighting, more than 650 Palestinians had been killed, many of them women, children and non-combatants, for the loss of seven Israelis. The deaths of more than 30...

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Israel's ground assault on the Gaza Strip might have involved thousands of soldiers, but it was the air force that fired the first shots. By Tim Butcher on the Israel-Gaza border Last Updated: 8:22PM GMT 04...

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...targets. While the fighting in Gaza does not immediately threaten any oil installation, it signals that "we're entering a mischief period for the players in the Middle East," Kilduff said. Supplies: In...

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...of Hamas targets in the deadliest violence in the territory in decades. Palestinian medical officials put the Gaza death toll at 313. Hamas, an Islamist movement, defied the Israeli assaults, the fiercest in...

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...Strip, but later pared those gains to trade around $38.70. Still, the Canadian currency could get a lift in the session, one market participant said. "It is lagging because Canada is still seen as a country...

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... killed more than 300 Palestinians, many of them civilians. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency said at least 57 of the dead were civilians. It based the figure, which an UNRWA spokesman called...

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...rocket attack on Israel in defiance of an offensive that has killed more than 300 Palestinians. [ID:nLT345484] Geopolitical tensions increases interest in bullion as a safe haven investment, and are also a...

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An Israeli missile strike in the Gaza Strip has killed three Hamas fighters and wounded two others, Palestinian emergency services said. The dead fighters were members of the al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades, an armed...

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"This is absolutely unacceptable because the Gaza Strip is part of the Palestinian people, and they are the ones who decide whether they will participate in elections or not," Abed Rabbo said. "It is not...

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