Gaza Strip

...cause - which Chavez also supports. Venezuela broke off diplomatic ties with Israel in January to protest its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, and since then Chavez has often traded verbal barbs with Israeli officials. On Friday, he...

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...killed in clash near Gaza" began: "Israeli soldiers fatally shot a Palestinian and wounded two others in a confrontation near a Gaza Strip border crossing Friday, the Israeli army and Palestinian medical workers said." The next...

In this article: Gaza, Mideast, and Reuters

...and presidential elections will be set next month now that President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone the January vote, though the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers maintain they will boycott the voting. The elections were supposed to be a...

In this article: Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas, West Bank, Gaza, Islamic, BBC Arabic, Ramallah, and Jerusalem

...had been set for January. The Palestinian Election Commission said Friday it would meet in December to set a new date, though the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers maintain they will boycott the vote. Abbas said in an interview with BBC Arabic on...

In this article: Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas, West Bank, Fatah, BBC Arabic, Ramallah, Gaza, and Jerusalem

The Central Election Commission announced last week it had advised Abbas to put off the election because Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip where some 1.5 million Palestinians live, had warned it would not allow them to vote. Hamas...

In this article: Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas, Fatah, West Bank, Gaza, and BBC Arabic

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Fearing loss of life and money, Palestinians are abandoning tunnels that supply the blockaded Gaza Strip with everything from food to fridges to weapons. On the Gaza side of the border with Egypt, there is...

In this article: Gaza, Israel, Egypt, Hamas, and Cattle

Israeli warplanes bombed two smuggling tunnels and a military training compound in the Gaza Strip Thursday, wounding three people, said officials in the Palestinian territory ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement. An Israeli army...

In this article: Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Gilad Shalit, Fatah, and Mahmoud Abbas

...are still being brought into Gaza Israeli aircraft have struck an alleged weapons factory and two suspected smuggling tunnels in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian officials reported no casualties, but Reuters news agency said three people had...

In this article: Gaza, Israeli Air Force, Hamas, Beijing, Sierra Leone, and Israel

...Hamas reacted cautiously on Wednesday to reports a deal to exchange hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held in the Gaza Strip might be concluded by the end of this month. Sources on both sides told Reuters there were...

In this article: Hamas, Gaza, Gilad Shalit, Israel, West Bank, Jerusalem, and Eid al-Adha

...postponed a vote that had been scheduled for January 24, in response to Hamas Islamists who said they would ban the vote in the Gaza Strip. Hamas disputes the legitimacy of Abbas's rule. The rift between Fatah and Hamas, shunned by...

In this article: Israel, Hamas, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gilad Shalit, Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah, and U.N. Security Council