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Topic: Kerem Shalom crossing

April 30, 2013
7:44 pm

Trucks at the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel will reopen Gaza crossings if quiet holds

Kerem Shalom was closed on Monday after a Kassam rocket hit the south

April 29, 2013
3:26 am

Smoke trails of rocket fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza Strip towards Israel in Oct. 2012 (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

Rocket fired from Gaza hits southern Israel

No injuries reported in second attack in two days

By Times of Israel staff

April 28, 2013
5:53 am

Israel bombs Gaza targets after rocket attack

Army says weapons warehouse, ‘terror installation’ hit in retaliatory airstrike; Kerem Shalom crossing closed to commercial traffic

By Times of Israel staff

March 28, 2013
10:01 am

Workers on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing into the Gaza Strip, December 2011 (photo credit Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel reopens Gaza border crossings

Terminals were closed by the IDF last Thursday in response to rocket fire

By AP and Times of Israel staff

March 23, 2013
5:32 am

A Hamas police officer stands in front of graffiti showing late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City in July. (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Hamas files complaint with Cairo over fishing ban

Mujahideen Shura Council, al-Qaeda-linked group responsible for Thursday’s rocket barrage, says Hamas arrested two of its members

By Ilan Ben Zion

March 21, 2013
4:14 pm

Moshe Ya'alon in January (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Defense minister shuts Gaza gateways due to rockets

Newly appointed Moshe Ya’alon says border crossings will return to full operation only when security considerations allow

By Stuart Winer

March 15, 2013
12:43 am

An Egyptian armored vehicle commandeered by terrorists burning at the Kerem Shalom crossing August 5. (photo credit: @AvitalLeibovich, Twitter)

Egyptian report blames Hamas for killing 16 soldiers in terror attack

Islamist group threatens to sue state-owned magazine over allegations regarding last year’s major attack on Israel-Gaza-Sinai border

By AP and Times of Israel staff

March 5, 2013
3:12 pm

Gaza-Israel border reopens for goods

Kerem Shalom crossing was closed Monday due to possible Hamas intervention

By Gabe Fisher and Times of Israel staff

March 4, 2013
5:05 pm

Israel-Gaza crossing shut after reported Hamas takeover

Until now, Kerem Shalom entry point has been operated by a concessionaire on behalf of the Palestinian Authority

By Asher Zeiger and Elhanan Miller

February 11, 2013
8:17 pm

The Kerem Shalom crossing, between Israel and the Gaza Strip,in 2011 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel allowing Turkey to build hospital in Gaza

While relations between Jerusalem and Ankara remain strained, approval of supply trucks may lead to improved cooperation

By Stuart Winer and Times of Israel staff

January 14, 2013
4:23 pm

A Palestinian man works at the entrance of a destroyed smuggling tunnel along the Egypt Gaza border in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on November 27, 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Hamas to close smuggling tunnels, fearing collapses

Several people reportedly killed in Gaza Strip underground passages in the wake of massive storm

By Asher Zeiger

December 31, 2012
5:28 pm

Following Egypt, Israel allows building supplies into Gaza

IDF says shipments to continue if border stays quiet; Cairo to allow in 4,000 tons of equipment a day

August 30, 2012
3:30 pm

The fence along the Egyptian-Israeli border (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

IDF to expand buffer zone along Egyptian border

Israelis to be kept 300 meters from fence between Kerem Shalom and Eilat