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Topic: border fence

January 14, 2013
5:10 pm

Palestinians stand close to the border fence between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip on November 23, 2012 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Gaza farmer reportedly killed by IDF

Army has no comment on incident near border fence

By Michal Shmulovich

January 1, 2013
3:02 pm

Protesters hold up a sign that reads 'Help! The neighborhoods are sinking,' at an anti-migrant demonstration in Tel Aviv, Monday, December 31 (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

New year, same old problems

Anti-migrant protests make a comeback, the government’s decision to build in E1 has diplomats grumbling, and cost of living expenses soars with new price hikes

By Ron Friedman

December 24, 2012
7:57 pm

Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Hagai Hadas speak about illegal migrants in Israel, Sunday (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israel to start repatriating African migrants, Netanyahu announces

Prime minister says no illegal aliens reached the country’s cities in the past several months

By Aaron Kalman

December 6, 2012
3:03 pm

Lt. Col. Hassan, left, teaching a young tracker the ropes (Photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/ Times of Israel)

In the silent footsteps of the Israeli army’s sharp-eyed Bedouin trackers

They spend their waking hours on the front line, protecting sovereign Israel and West Bank settlements from terrorist infiltrators. And then some go home to unrecognized villages, slated for destruction

By Mitch Ginsburg

December 1, 2012
12:40 pm

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip hurling rocks and attempting to breach the border fence in November 2012. (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Palestinians claim Gaza man died from IDF-inflicted wounds

Israeli forces say Palestinians didn’t heed warnings to distance themselves from the border fence

By Yoel Goldman

November 28, 2012
11:58 pm

Five Palestinians reported wounded by Israeli soldiers near Gaza fence

IDF says incidents triggered by rioters converging on the border

By Times of Israel staff

November 24, 2012
5:55 am

Palestinian UN observer Riyad Mansour (photo credit: United Nations Media Center)

Palestinians to UN Security Council: Israel violated the ceasefire

After IDF kills a Gazan who tried to breach the border, Palestinian UN observer complains that Jerusalem is undermining the fragile calm

By AP and Yoel Goldman and Michal Shmulovich

November 5, 2012
3:44 am

File photo of an IDF Merkava tank along the Israel-Gaza border fence (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

IDF troops shoot Palestinian at Gaza border fence

Military says man didn’t respond to warnings; Palestinian sources: he was mentally unfit

By AP and Yoel Goldman

September 23, 2012
2:20 am

Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of Netanel Yahalomi during his funeral in the Israeli city of Modiin, early Sunday, September 23, 2012. Yahalomi was killed Friday in a shootout between Islamist terrorists and IDF troops along Israel's southern border with Egypt. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Slain Israeli soldier Netanel Yahalomi laid to rest

Hundreds attend funeral of 20-year-old hesder yeshiva student killed in a cross-border attack in the South on Friday

By Times of Israel staff

September 22, 2012
8:36 am

Southern Command chief Tal Russo arrives at the scene of a terror attack near the Israeli-Egyptian border, where an IDF soldier was killed, on Friday (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Egyptian authorities ask local Sinai residents to help identify slain terrorists

Israel transfers to Egypt the bodies of gunmen who killed an IDF soldier in attack near the border

By Times of Israel staff and AP

September 21, 2012
7:00 pm

Netanel Yahalomi (photo credit: Channel 2 screenshot)

Israeli soldier, Netanel Yahalomi, killed by terrorists in gunfight at Egyptian border; three terrorists killed

Hunt goes on for two terrorists who escaped; bodies of slain gunmen transferred to Egypt