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Egypt helps ease Gaza oil crisis

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Egypt starts supplying fuel to the Gaza Strip today to help ease the territory’s worst fuel crisis in years.

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VIDEO: ‘Double revenge’ for Gaza air strike

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

The Israeli military has carried out air strikes over the Gaza Strip, targeting those it blamed for a series of deadly attacks in southern Israel.

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Egypt Will Open Gaza Crossing

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

The results of the revolution in Egypt aren’t clear yet, but they’re already remaking global politics. Egypt announced that it will open the Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian territory controlled by Hamas, this weekend. That…

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Israeli Police Fire on Protesters

Sunday, May 15th, 2011

Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, where at least 30 Palestinians were injured when Israeli tanks fired shells near demonstrators marching toward the border fence. The demonstrations come…

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Barenboim in Gaza ‘peace concert’

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim takes an orchestra to the Gaza Strip for a concert in the first such event in the Palestinian territory.

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Barenboim in Gaza ‘peace concert’

Hamas officials say body of kidnapped Italian activist found in Gaza City

Friday, April 15th, 2011

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — An Italian activist kidnapped in Gaza by Palestinian extremists inspired by al-Qaida was killed by his captors and found hanged several hours after his abduction, Gaza’s Hamas rulers said early Friday.

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Israeli strike kills two in Gaza

Sunday, March 27th, 2011

An Israeli air strike kills two militants in the Gaza Strip, a day after Palestinian militants said they would agree a truce if Israel reciprocated.

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Rockets, mortars fall on Israel as officials launch airstrike, mull more action

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

As at least 10 rockets, missiles and mortars were fired from the Gaza Strip toward southern Israel, officials launched an airstrike to destroy a rocket launcher.

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Palestinians rally for unity in Gaza, West Bank

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to demand an end to the rift between Hamas and Fatah that has left the territories in the control of rival governments.

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Israel intercepts ‘weapons ship’

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

The Israeli navy has intercepted an Egypt-bound ship carrying arms intended for militant groups in the Gaza Strip, military officials say.

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Israeli troops kill Gaza suspects

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

Israeli soldiers kill three Palestinians they suspected of planting explosives in a buffer zone in the Gaza Strip – a claim denied by Palestinians.

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Israeli tanks in fatal Gaza raid

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Israeli tanks have entered the northern Gaza Strip, sparking fighting that killed one Palestinian and injured two.

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Israel kills Palestinian militant

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

A 25-year-old Palestinian militant has been killed in an Israeli air strike near the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, Palestinian sources say.

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New Gaza war ‘a question of when’

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

A senior Israeli army officer tells the BBC that as long as Hamas remains in control of the Gaza Strip, another war is “a question of when, not if”.

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New Gaza war ‘a question of when’

Israeli strike kills five in Gaza

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

An Israeli air strike kills five people in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian and Israeli sources say.

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