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Palestinians gather and react at a Hamas outpost that was struck by Israeli bombardment near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 20 July, 2018. Picture: AFP.

Israel and hamas trade attacks

Israel-Hamas Gaza truce largely holds after flare-up

By Reuters

Hamas said it had agreed to the truce with Israel, a day after clashes killed an Israeli soldier and four Palestinians, three of them Hamas fighters.

  • Israeli Jews and Arabs march together in downtown Jerusalem on 17 October 2015, during a left wing protest against the ongoing situation. The placard on the right bearing a portrait of Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu reads in Hebrew "Refuser of peace" and the red placard on the left reads in Hebrew "Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies". Picture: AFP

    Fear of full scale Israeli/Palestinian war grows as violence increases

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    2408 days ago
  • FILE: A Palestinian man pushes a bicycle past the rubble of destroyed buildings in Shejaiya on 27 August, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Gaza & Israel mark 1 year since last war

    A ceasefire last August ended the fighting which killed over 2,000 Palestinians and six Israelis.

    2511 days ago
  • FILE: Smoke billows following an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on 8 August 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Blockaded Gaza faces huge challenges to rebuild after war

    With the economy reeling, the enclave now faces an almost impossible task of rebuilding.

    2810 days ago
  • FILE: Palestinians flee their destroyed neighbourhood on a horse and cart in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanun, on 18 August,2014. Picture: AFP.

    Palestinians put Gaza reconstruction cost at $7.8 billion

    The Palestinian Authority said the cost of rebuilding 17,000 Gazan homes would be $2.5 billion.

    2818 days ago
  • FILE: Israeli soldiers work on their Merkava tanks at an army deployment point near the Israeli-Gaza border on 20 August,2014. Picture: AFP.

    Israel shows evidence of rocket fire from Gaza schools

    Senior military officers laid out details of the ranges and number of rockets fired by Hamas.

    2819 days ago
  • A Palestinian man pushes a bicycle past the rubble of destroyed buildings in Shejaiya on 27 August, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Gaza truce holding but Netanyahu under fire

    Media commentators have voiced deep disappointment over Netanyahu's leadership during the Gaza war.

    2826 days ago
  • FILE: Palestinians gather on the rubble and shell of a building destroyed following an Israeli military strike, as they watch rescuers working in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, on 21 August 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Gaza war continues as Egypt seeks truce

    Qais Abu Leila, a senior Palestinian official, said Cairo had proposed an indefinite ceasefire.

    2828 days ago
  • Palestinians gather on the rubble and shell of a building destroyed following an Israeli military strike, as they watch rescuers working in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, on 21 August 2014. Picture: AFP

    Hamas kills 18 suspected collaborators

    The victims were shot dead by masked gunmen dressed in black in front of a crowd.

    2831 days ago
  • Israeli soldiers work on their Merkava tanks at an army deployment point near the Israeli-Gaza border on 20 August,2014. Picture: AFP.

    Hamas accuses Israel of 'opening gateway to hell'

    Israeli air strikes killed 11 Palestinians including the wife and infant son of Hamas’s military leader.

    2833 days ago
  • Smoke billows following an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern of Gaza Strip, in August 2014. Picture: AFP

    Gaza war resumes with deadly strikes

    Fighting resumed after the collapse of truce talks. Israeli air strikes have already killed 3 people.

    2833 days ago
  • Palestinians flee their destroyed neighbourhood on a horse and cart in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanun, on 18 August,2014. Picture: AFP.

    Israel says Gaza militants fired rockets, breached truce

    Three rockets fired from Gaza hit Israel on Tuesday and Netanyahu ordered the military to strike back.

    2834 days ago
  • Israeli police on Sunday blocked more than 200 far-right Israeli protesters from rushing guests at a wedding of a Jewish woman and Muslim man. Picture: EWN.

    Israeli wedding of Jew, Muslim draws protesters

    Several dozen police formed human chains to keep the protesters from the wedding hall’s gates.

    2835 days ago
  • A Palestinian woman and a child walk past the destroyed Omari mosque on 12 August 2014 in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip. Picture: AFP.

    Renewed Gaza truce holds after rocky start

    Both sides have agreed to give Egyptian-brokered talks more time to try end the Gaza war.

    2839 days ago
  • Palestinian home owners meet to discuss steps they will follow to rebuild their homes in the northern Gaza strip on 13 August, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Gaza: Ceasefire clock ticking

    The threat of renewed war loomed with no sign of a breakthrough in indirect talks in Cairo.

    2840 days ago
  • Smoke billows following an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on 8 August 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Gaza: Casualties mount as ceasefire collapses

    Israeli launched air strikes across the Gaza Strip in response to Palestinian rocket fire.

    2845 days ago
  • A Palestinian carries mattresses he found in the rubble of destroyed buildings on 27 July, 2014 in the Shejaiya residential district of Gaza City as families returned to find their homes ground into rubble by relentless Israeli tank fire and air strikes. Picture: AFP.

    Gaza: Ceasefire holds up

    A 72-hour ceasefire appears to be holding after Israel withdrew its ground forces from Gaza.

    2847 days ago
  • Israeli ultra orthodox Jews watch as Israeli police work at the scene after a Palestinian man rammed an excavator into a bus (R), on 4 August, 2014 in Jerusalem, killing one person and lightly injuring five others. Picture: AFP.

    Jerusalem rocked by two attacks

    A Palestinian killed an Israeli and a gunman wounded a soldier in two Jerusalem attacks.

    2849 days ago
  • Thousands of people attending the pro-Israel rally at Huddle Park in Linksfield on 3 August, 2014. Picture: Valeska Abreu/EWN.

    Armed man arrested at pro-Israel rally

    Police say the man arrested outside yesterday's rally was carrying a number of firearms and knives.

    2849 days ago
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