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Topic: Gaza City

April 18, 2013
6:13 pm

Hamas security men parade in Gaza city (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Grace period over, Hamas vows to hunt down, execute collaborators

Interior Minister Fathi Hammad declares a carrot-and-stick policy toward those suspected of spying for Israel in the Strip

By Elhanan Miller

February 15, 2013
3:44 pm

Members of the jury of the World Press Photo contest listen to questions during a press conference as the winning picture by Paul Hansen, Sweden, for Dagens Nyheter, is projected on a screen in Amsterdam in February. (photo credit: AP/Peter Dejong)

Photographer wins top award for Pillar of Defense picture

Swede’s shot is of a group of men marching the bodies of two young siblings killed by Israeli missiles down a Gaza City street

December 3, 2012
4:50 pm

Hamas Prime Minister in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh during a ceremony to honor wounded journalists in Gaza City on November 26, 2012 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

For the first time since violent takeover, Hamas allows Fatah officials to return to Gaza

Second goodwill move in a week aims to create positive atmosphere to allow reconciliation

By Elhanan Miller

November 22, 2012
6:53 pm

AFP is once again complicit in a Hamas lie

The French news agency is the only one not to retract the claim that Israel killed Mahmoud Sadallah

By Tamar Sternthal

November 20, 2012
8:15 pm

Palestinian gunmen ride motorcycles as they drag the body of a man who was killed as a suspected collaborator with Israel, in Gaza City, November 20, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)

Hamas summarily executes six more ‘Israeli collaborators’

Gunmen drag one man’s body behind a motorcycle through streets of Gaza City

By Ilan Ben Zion and AP

November 20, 2012
1:08 am

Smoke rises after an Israeli air force strike in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Bernat Armangue)

Rocket attacks on Israel ‘are not terror, they’re our right,’ Gaza activist says

Palestinians don’t want an ‘absurd ceasefire just like the last times,’ Sarah Salibi, a 21-year-old from Jabalya, tells The Times of Israel

By Ilan Ben Zion

November 17, 2012
10:25 am

Palestinian firefighters at the scene of an Israeli air strike on a building in the Jebaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday.(photo credit: AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

IDF counts over 800 Gaza airstrikes, with some 180 early Saturday

Targeting follows Hamas’s unleashing of 500-plus rockets, including unprecedented launchings at Tel Aviv, Jerusalem

November 14, 2012
7:57 pm

People look at the wreckage of the car in which Ahmed Jabari, head of the Hamas military wing, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, Gaza City, Wednesday, November 14, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)

IDF releases film showing Hamas terror chief’s car engulfed by fireball

Footage shows Jabari’s Kia sedan cruising down a street in Gaza City when it is struck by Israeli missile

By Ilan Ben Zion

November 14, 2012
4:20 pm

Slain Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari in 2011 (photo credit: AP/Khalid Farid)

Israel hits Hamas military leader, targets missile sites in major air assault on Gaza Strip

Strike sparks volley of retaliations from Gaza on cities in Israel’s south; schools canceled within 40 kilometer range of Strip

By Ilan Ben Zion and Elie Leshem

November 10, 2012
6:18 pm

Israeli soldiers wounded in an anti-tank missile attack on the Gaza border are wheeled into Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba on November 10, 2012. (photo credit: Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

Four soldiers injured, two seriously, by anti-tank missile fired at their jeep from Gaza; rocket fire on South

IDF hits back at terror targets in Gaza Strip, four Palestinians said killed; army said to be bracing for ‘serious escalation’

By Ilan Ben Zion and Elhanan Miller

August 7, 2012
6:06 pm

Gaza residents pray outside the Egyptian embassy in solidarity with Egypt following the attack (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Border attack means Egypt-Gaza honeymoon is over

Hamas condemned the Sunday assault in which 16 Egyptian troops were killed, offered to help investigate it, set up a symbolic mourning tent, and tried to pin blame on Israel. To no avail

By Elhanan Miller

June 18, 2012
1:36 am

Israeli planes strike at Gaza after mortars shot into Israel

Five people reported injured when plane hits target in Rafah in southern Strip

By Times of Israel staff

June 11, 2012
12:36 pm

A Palestinian man in a horse-drawn cart in front of the Bank of Palestine in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, last week (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gaza: Five years since Hamas

From the web The Independent gives an in-depth report on life in the Gaza Strip over the last half decade

March 25, 2012
11:00 pm

Palestinians rallying in Jabaliya Refugee Camp, demanding Egypt provide the Gaza Strip with electricity and diesel (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)

Gaza baby’s death called into question

Mohammed Helou’s passing due to the energy crisis in the Strip was reported weeks ago