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 Israel's assault on Rafa

A Palestinian man carries a wounded child as others rush to help moments after an Israeli missile strike on a demonstration in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, May 19, 2004. At least seven people were killed and dozens wounded in the attack. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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New York officials called it the city's deadliest attack since 9/11. ... on vehicular attacks around the world included a deadly Palestinian truck attack ... The Rafah crossing is almost always closed but PA officials said a deal .... Kurds demonstrating for independence often unfurled Israeli flags; Israel is the only ...
The attack on the tunnel was the most serious loss they have ... The fact that Israeli famers living near Gaza were told to avoid going near the ...

Although the surprise attack failed, the British nonetheless defeated the ... Thus the assault ended successfully and Be'er Sheva, with its vital ...
A body carried by mourners after he was killed when Israel blew up a ... were killed when they entered the tunnel to try to rescue people after the Israeli attack, ... to reopen its Rafah crossing with Gaza, with members of Palestinian President .... Hamas Agreed Not to Carry Out Attacks on Israel, Sources Say.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is no longer the main game in the Middle East; ... well as the opening of the Al Rafah crossing, whose closure by Egypt a few years ... Israel has no fear of Iran and, in the event of any attack, will ...
... been accused by Israel of masterminding attacks on Israelis from his ... Despite the reported agreement on the Rafah crossing, it is unlikely ... Abbas was left with autonomous enclaves in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. ... negotiate the terms of Palestinian statehood with Israel seem to be going nowhere.

... but Salafi jihadist groups launching audacious attacks could spoil any rapprochement, ... Far from being an isolated incident, this attack represents the ... wedged between Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which crams 1.8 million ... in the southern city of Rafah before he was killed in a raid by Hamas.
Israeli forces also fired flares east of Rafah city in southern Gaza near ... attacks since a ceasefire was declared after Israel's devastating war in ...
Monday's attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was the deadliest against ... forces since July, when the group attacked a remote army outpost in Rafah, killing 23 soldiers. ... The Sinai Peninsula borders Israel and the Gaza Strip. ... The October Arab-Israeli War of 1973: What happened?
Hamas has used a network of tunnels running from Gaza to southern Israel to launch attacks on Israel and to kidnap Israeli soldiers into the ...
One Palestinian was killed by Israeli occupation forces during the month of August ... his intention to carry out an attack, longing for a “martyr's funeral.” ... On 4 August Israel did transfer the remains of four Palestinians slain by its ... The Rafah crossing with Egypt – the sole point of exit and entry for the vast ...
Israel, Hamas, Egypt indirectly cooperating against IS ... A Palestinian from Rafah, Mustafa Kalab, conducted a suicide attack against Hamas operatives Aug. ... Thus, a group that embraced suicide attacks at the start of the 1990s has ... There is a blackout regarding Israeli-Egyptian security cooperation from ...
RAMALLAH, August 28, 2017 (WAFA) – Israeli settlement activities in the ... to the Palestinian neighborhood by Israel's right-wing Home Security Minister ... The paper reported on the suicide attack at Rafah two weeks ago in ...
The targets were located near the cities of Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah, in the Northern part of the Sinai, the report said. No confirmation from independent news outlets was established.
According to Haaretz, the document records that the Israeli military governor of Gaza ordered the expulsion of 110 Palestinians to Sinai and the demolition of eight homes as collective punishment in retaliation for an attempted attack against Israeli ...
A previously cancelled academic conference debating the legal legitimacy of Israel's existence is back on. According to RTE, the confab's first day will take place at University College Cork, with Cork city hall being the venue for the next two days ...
Overall, the resonance of the Islamic State (IS) among the Palestinian Arab populations in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza has been relatively low.

CAIRO, March 9 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian military and security forces arrested 70 suspects during raids over the past two days in restive North Sinai province bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, a military spokesman said Thursday. "The ...
The Swiss National Council passed legislation to stop funding organizations promoting boycotts of Israel. ... Consequently, Israeli defense officials are increasingly worried about the new development between Hamas and Egypt, for fear that Egypt would ...
The attacks caused little damage, but succeeded in closing down the institute. "The closure ... The Rafah crossing controlled by Egypt is opened only intermittently, while getting permission to travel through the Israeli-controlled Erez checkpoint is ...
Palestinian ambulances sped to the scene of the Israeli attack, and rushed the two Palestinians to the Indonesian Hospital, in northern Gaza.
A Palestinian youth from the West Bank was arrested after he allegedly injured six people during a shooting and stabbing attack in Petah Tikva, a city in Israel, on 9 February. A Palestinian citizen of Israel was attacked by a crowd of Israelis during ...
Last month, the Gaza-based Al Mezan Center for Human Rights expressed concern about Israeli airstrikes, saying the rise in the attacks could be leading up to a wide-scale military offensive. It called on the international community to "act promptly ...
The militants have set up their own checkpoints especially on the roads around the city of Rafah, which borders the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched airstrikes and intensified artillery shelling across the Gaza Strip on Monday, 27 February 2017, targeting military training sites, agricultural lands, and open areas.
Israel says arrests 3 for plotting IS-inspired attacks · *. Israeli tanks fire on Gaza in response to rocket attack. *. Palestinians drive on a road as smoke billows, in the background, following an Israeli air strike on Rafah, in the southern Gaza ...
RAFAH: Israel carried out a series of air strikes on militant sites across the Gaza Strip on Monday, wounding at least four people, officials said, following a rocket attack on southern Israel that caused no casualties. Explosions could be heard and ...
The Israeli Air Force attacked three Hamas military targets in Gaza on Monday following the firing of a rocket from Gaza which hit an open area in southern Israel causing no deaths or injuries. Israeli and Palestinian media reports stated that the air ...
"I grew up a supporter of the state of Israel, I was brought up as a Zionist. I went to Israel again and again on holiday," he told RT in 2014.
The militants have set up their own checkpoints especially on the roads around the city of Rafah, which borders the Gaza Strip.
Four people were reported wounded in the Israeli strike. According to Palestinian reports, the first strikes focused on Hamas positions west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip's center and east of Rafah, in the Strip's south. Soon after ...
The official said that Hamas's missile arsenal has been fully replenished, in part thanks to material which has reached Gaza via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Although Israel destroyed roughly one third of Hamas's attack tunnels during the 2014 ...
No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack but earlier this week, Egypt's Islamic State group affiliate, which is based in the Sinai Peninsula, vowed in a video to step up attacks against the embattled Christian minority. A spate of ...
It can be astonishing to witness how a cold-blooded murder captured on full screen can end up entailing a mere 1.5-years prison sentence when it involves an Israeli soldier. In order to understand how this amazing result was achieved, we must look at ...
On 9 February, a 19-year-old Palestinian from Beita village (Nablus) injured five Israeli civilians in a shooting and stabbing attack in a market in Petah Tikva city (Israel), and was subsequently arrested. Since the beginning of 2017, four Israeli ...
This is not the first time Israeli security forces have been accused of using excessive force, and killing Palestinians unnecessarily, by Israeli and international human rights organisations, following a spate of Palestinian stabbing attacks on Israeli ...
Although nobody has yet claimed responsibility for Monday's attack, it came just a day after ISIS's al-Amaq news agency said that an unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to the Israeli Air Force attacked a vehicle in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Saturday ...
He added that this was the second attack of its kind, carried out by the soldiers in the area, since the beginning of this year.
Israeli military bulldozers destroyed a drinking water pipeline funded by the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) in the occupied West Bank on Monday.
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 09 - 15 February 2017, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that one Palestinian died from previously inflicted wounds, ...
The armed branch of Hamas, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades members attend the opening ceremony of the monument for assassinated Tunisian aircraft engineer Muhammed ez-Zevvari, by Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in Rafah, Gaza on January 31, 2017 ...
Identified Hamas fighters have been fighting alongside the Islamic State's Sinai affiliate in Sinai, whether on direction from Hamas's military wing or on an individual basis, and the Islamic State is likely to increase rocket attacks on Israel as a ...
Massive controversy and outrage dominated Egypt's social media outlets on Tuesday following the circulation of statements from a prominent Israeli minister, who claimed on his twitter account that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US ...
Relatives of Palestinian Muhammed al-Aqraa, who was killed in an explosion in a smuggling tunnel at the border between Gaza and Egypt, mourn over his body in his family house during his funeral in Gaza City, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017.
Israel Defense Forces have denied carrying out an attack overnight. Health Ministry ... The Egyptian army said on Thursday morning that its soldiers demolished six tunnels between Gaza and Rafah in Egypt in the last month and arrested 15 people who ...
On 8 January, Fadi Ahmad Hamdan al-Qunbar, 28, plowed his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem, killing four before he was shot dead.
MEXICO CITY, Mexico - The presidents of Mexico and Israel spoke over the telephone this week with the intention of defusing the controversy over comments made by Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu about US President Donald Trump's plans for a wall ...
The head of Egypt's general intelligence, Khaled Fawzy, knows this, and told Haniyeh loud and clear: You must hand over to us any wanted person we ask for, whether he was directly involved in terror attacks in the Sinai Peninsula or just assisted ...
Israeli occupation soldiers abducted, on Sunday evening, two young men in Palestinian lands, close to the border fence in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The soldiers also fired live rounds and several flares. The WAFA Palestinian News ...
Meanwhile, forces from the third field army were also able to foil a massive attack when it managed to arrest a water truck loaded with five tonnes of explosives.


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