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(Reuters) – Some 500,000 children returned on Sunday to school in the Gaza Strip, where many will be given psychological counseling before regular studies begin after a devastating 50-day war between Palestinian militants and Israel. The opening of the school year had been delayed for three weeks because of damage to more than 250 schools and the use of about 90 U.N. educational facilities as shelters for tens of thousands of residents displaced by fighting, the United […]
In Jerusalem, observers said that the indefinite ceasefire seems to be holding, as parties focus on long-term arrangements.
The Department of Foreign Affairs said that the Alert Level 4 remains in the Gaza despite the ceasefire between Israel and Palestine.
Palestinians celebrate the cease-fire after a month-long fight between Israel and Hamas militants.
(Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Palestinian civilians on Sunday to leave immediately any site where militants are operating, one day after Israel took the Gaza war to a new level by flattening a 13-storey apartment tower. Israeli aircraft first fired a non-explosive rocket at the building, a sign to residents to get out, before attacking it on Saturday. Seventeen people were wounded in the strike on the structure, which Israel said had housed […]
(Reuters) – An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed the wife and infant son of Hamas’s military leader, Mohammed Deif, the group said, calling it an attempt to assassinate him after a ceasefire collapsed. Palestinians launched more than 180 rockets on Tuesday and Wednesday, mainly at southern Israel, with some intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system, the military said. No casualties were reported on the Israeli side. Egypt, which has been trying to broker a […]
Israel and Palestinian negotiators agreed to extend the ceasefire which is supposed to end today for another 24 hours, as they search for a more permanent ceasefire agreement.
(Reuters) – The Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza accused Israel on Friday of a cross-border shooting in violation of a truce that has largely held since getting off to a shaky start on Thursday. An Israeli military spokeswoman said: “We have no knowledge of such an incident.” The Palestinian ministry in the coastal territory dominated by Hamas Islamists said Israeli troops shot at houses east of the town of Khan Younis. The ceasefire, renewed on […]
Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend their truce for five more days.
Hamas militants have resumed rocket fire after Egypt has failed to extend the truce between the militants and Israel.
(Reuters) – Israel withdrew ground forces from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and started a 72-hour ceasefire with Hamas mediated byEgypt as a first step towards negotiations on a more enduring end to the month-old war. Minutes before the truce began at 8 a.m. (0500 GMT), Hamas launched a salvo of rockets, calling them revenge for Israel’s “massacres”. Israel’s anti-missile system shot down one rocket over Jerusalem, police said. Another hit a house in a town near Bethlehem […]
By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Lin Noueihed and Allyn Fisher-Ilan GAZA/CAIRO/JERUSALEM – Mon Aug 4, 2014 9:15pm EDT (Reuters) – Israel and Islamist Hamas were expected to hold their fire for three days starting on Tuesday, under terms of an Egyptian-brokered truce, while launching negotiations to cement a long-term deal to end a four-week Gaza war. The ceasefire was the latest of several failed attempts to stop what has been the worst Israeli-Palestinian fighting in two years. […]
