Tag: Gaza

Detente in Gaza

Over the three days of the conflict, there was a dramatic change in strategy on either side of the “line of control”, so to speak.

May 11, 2019

Gaza conflict: Israel lifts restrictions amid ceasefire

Since Saturday morning, Palestinian militants in Gaza have launched 690 rockets towards southern Israel. Israel responded with over 320 attacks on military positions, making it the most significant escalation of violence since the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict.

May 6, 2019

Turkish President condemns Israel over attack on news agency office in gaza

Turkey has repeatedly criticised Israeli policies even though the two countries in 2016 ended a six-year rift triggered by the Israeli storming of a Gaza-bound ship that left 10 Turkish activists dead.

May 5, 2019

100 years on, their war rages

There was something gruesomely familiar about the way we commemorated the supposed end of the First World War a hundred years ago. Not just the waterfalls of poppies and the familiar names – Mons, the Somme, Ypres, Verdun – but the almost total silence about all those who died in the First World War, whose …

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November 18, 2018

Mideast on the boil

The cauldron bubble of the Middle East has flared up yet again this week, and the risk of war is dangerously real. The outbreak of violence is reckoned to be the worst since the 2014 conflict and the situation remains ever so fragile. The question that is now of greatest importance is whether the ceasefire …

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November 16, 2018

‘Only the monstrous anger of the guns’

t opens with a question that, sadly, has echoed down the ages with its potency intact: “What passing bells for these who die as cattle?” The poet answers it in the next line with another phrase that deplorably has stood the test of time, reflected most recently in last Saturday’s horrific massacre at a synagogue …

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November 2, 2018

Will intensify attacks on Gaza if fire continues: Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday threatened to attack the Gaza Strip with great force if fire incidents near the fence between Israel and the besieged Palestinian enclave continue. The remark was made during an opening ceremony of a fortified emergency room in the Barzilai Medical Center in the southern city of Ashkelon. It …

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February 21, 2018

Israel attacks underground infrastructure in Gaza

Israeli warplanes attacked an underground infrastructure in the Gaza Strip on Monday hours after a rocket was launched at Israel from Palestinian territory, the military said. The fighting marked the third consecutive day of exchanges of fire, reports Efe news. “A short while ago, in response to the rocket that was launched at Israel earlier …

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February 19, 2018

Israel strikes six Hamas military targets in Gaza

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) fighter jets targeted a total of six military targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, in response to the detonation of an explosive device on the border fence in southern Gaza. These specific military targets belonging to the Hamas organization were attacked, Xinhua quoted a statement issued by the Israeli …

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February 18, 2018

Israel carries out air strike in Gaza: Israel army

Israeli aircraft has attacked a target in the southern Gaza Strip, the army said, and also closed the goods crossing between the Palestinian enclave and the Jewish state. Israel “targeted a terror infrastructure using fighter jets in the southern Rafah region, adjacent to the Egypt-Gaza Strip border,” an army statement said on Saturday. “The Hamas …

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January 14, 2018

Israeli aircraft launch fresh raid on Gaza Strip

Israeli warplanes launched on Tuesday a raid on the Gaza Strip, with no injuries reported, according to Palestinian sources and eyewitnesses. Israeli aircraft targeted with a number of rockets the “marine” site, located in Khan Younis governorate south of the Gaza Strip, belonging to Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas movement, Xinhua news agency …

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January 3, 2018

Israel hits Gaza after rocket fire: Israel army

Israel’s air force hit the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers today after Palestinians fired at southern Israel on Monday, the army said. Late Tuesday night the military said that an undefined “projectile” was fired from Gaza towards southern Israel. A spokeswoman told AFP that it was “very probably” a rocket but that it was not clear where it fell. …

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December 13, 2017

Israeli war jets strike Gaza in response to rockets attacks

Israeli war jets began to strike the Gaza Strip on Friday night in response to earlier rockets attacks from Gaza into Israel, the media reported. Security sources and eyewitnesses said the Israeli war jets struck with two missiles a military post that belongs to Hamas militants in northern Gaza, adding that several people were injured, …

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December 9, 2017

Capital controversy: Palestinian protests across West Bank, Gaza

Dozens were injured on Friday as Palestinians took to the streets in West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem against the US declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. In West Bank, scores of people paraded towards the Israeli settlements and clashed with Israeli troops. The soldiers opened fire and threw tear gas bombs injuring at …

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December 8, 2017

Hamas agrees to hand over Gaza to Abbas government

The Hamas movement, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007, announced on Sunday that it was ready to hand over the territory to the consensus government of Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas. Hamas announced the dissolution of the administrative committee created in March 2016 to manage the territory and invited the consensus government led by …

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September 17, 2017

Palestinian civilians urge ICC to speed up ”war crimes” probe

Palestinian lawyers and civil society groups urged the International Criminal Court to speed up inquiries and open a full investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza, east Jerusalem and the West Bank. "Since two years Palestine is under preliminary examination," said lawyer Gilles Devers, adding "in Gaza, we think two years is too long."  The …

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July 20, 2017

Gaza power plant shuts down, causing unprecedented blackout

The electricity supply to Gaza's 2 million residents has dropped to unprecedented lows, with blackouts lasting for more than 24 hours, the territory's power distribution company said today, prompting fears of a humanitarian and environmental crisis. The Palestinian enclave needs at least 400 megawatts of power a day, but only 70 megawatts were available as …

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July 14, 2017