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Palestinian protesters run from tear gas fired by Israeli forces during clashes following a protest along the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, on April 1, 2018. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)
April 1, 2018, 9:11 pm
Hamas: 11 Palestinians injured by IDF in fresh Gaza protests
Some 350 people turn out to demonstrate along Strip's security fence, after Friday's mass march with 30,000 participants
By Judah Ari Gross
Palestinian trucks loaded with supplies enters the southern Gaza Strip from Israel through the Kerem Shalom crossing in Rafah, on November 1, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)
January 15, 2018, 7:45 pm
Israel to reopen Gaza crossing after destroying terror tunnel underneath
Kerem Shalom, closed since Sunday, serves as main entryway for humanitarian aid, commercial goods into the beleaguered coastal enclave
By Judah Ari Gross
Palestinian truck drivers wait to cross the Kerem Shalon crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on January 14, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
January 14, 2018, 10:14 pm
Hamas tunnel was built to blow up main humanitarian crossing to Gaza — report
Terror tunnel destroyed by IDF ran under gas and diesel pipelines, and below Kerem Shalom, where thousands of tons of food and supplies enter the Strip each day
By TOI staff
The head of the Southern Gaza Brigade, Col. Kobi Heller, right, and IDF Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir visit the Kerem Shalom Crossing on January 14, 2018, where an alleged Hamas attack tunnel was discovered and destroyed by the military the day before. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 14, 2018, 2:32 pm
Visiting bombed tunnel site, IDF general says main victims are Gaza residents
Southern Command head says army 'determined' to destroy all underground terror infrastructure, after striking alleged Hamas cross-border passageway
By Judah Ari Gross
An attack tunnel that was bombed by Israeli jets on January 13, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 14, 2018, 7:52 am
IDF destroys Hamas attack tunnel that penetrated Israel and Egypt
Israeli jets strike in southern Gaza; army denies Palestinian claims the cross-border passage — the third destroyed by Israel in three months — was used for smuggling
By Judah Ari Gross
A picture taken on September 17, 2017, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, along the border with Egypt, shows smoke billowing from Egypt's North Sinai. (AFP/SAID KHATIB)
October 18, 2017, 6:08 am
Israeli drone strike said to have killed Palestinian IS fighter in Sinai
Reported strikes in northern region of Egyptian peninsula came shortly after jihadist group fired 2 rockets into the Negev
By TOI staff
Illustrative: An Israel Air Force F-16 takes off. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)
October 17, 2017, 11:49 am
Arab media reports Israel hit targets in Sinai after rocket attack
Qatari newspaper, citing 'tribal sources,' says strike followed Egyptian targeting of Islamic State in the area
By TOI staff
Illustrative: Egyptian soldiers in an armored vehicle in the northern Sinai, May 2013. (AP)
September 13, 2017, 11:04 pm
Two Egyptian soldiers, 5 militants killed in Sinai shootout
Suicide bomber attacks military checkpoint near Gaza border
By AP
A picture taken from the Rafah border of the southern Gaza Strip with Egypt shows smoke billowing in Egypt's North Sinai on July 8, 2017. (AFP/Said Khatib)
July 8, 2017, 10:58 pm
Ex-Hamas members took part in deadly IS Sinai attack, Israeli general says
Yoav Mordechai says Hamas is 'enabling free passage of terrorists' into Egypt, insists the groups are 'two sides of same coin'
By TOI staff and Agencies
In this Sunday, April 12, 2015 photo, Egyptians gather at the scene following a bombing that struck a main police station in the capital of the northern Sinai province in el-Arish, Egypt. (Muhamed Sabry/AP)
July 8, 2017, 2:44 am
IS claims attack in Egypt’s Sinai that killed 23 soldiers
Dozens of jihadist fighters storm remote military outpost with suicide car bomb and heavy machine gun fire
By ASHRAF SWELIAM and MAGGIE MICHAEL
Members of the Egyptian security forces stand guard near the border with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 6, 2017. (AFP/ SAID KHATIB)
July 7, 2017, 5:06 pm
Death toll in car bomb, shooting attack in Egypt’s Sinai rises to 26
Victims are Egyptian soldiers; officials say 40 assailants killed in complex assault on checkpoint near Rafah that went on at least 30 minutes
By Agencies
Illustrative: Egyptian soldiers in an armored vehicle in the northern Sinai, May 2013. (AP)
July 7, 2017, 11:51 am
10 killed in complex car bomb, shooting attack in Egypt’s Sinai
Suicide bomber rams vehicle into checkpoint in southern Rafah, followed by heavy gunfire from dozens of masked fighters; army claims 40 terrorists killed
By Ashraf Sweilam
Weapons manufacturing equipment seized by security forces in the West Bank, June 8, 2017. (IDF spokesperson)
June 8, 2017, 12:48 pm
IDF shuts down weapons workshop in West Bank
7 suspects arrested in overnight raids; Hamas commander dies in Gaza Strip explosion
By Stuart Winer
A file picture taken on January 29, 2015, shows Palestinian youth showing their skills during a graduation ceremony as part of a training camp run by the Hamas movement in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP photo/Said Khatib)
June 8, 2017, 1:01 am
Hamas commander said killed in Gaza explosion
Group gives no info on circumstances of blast in Rafah, which may have been an operational accident
By TOI staff
Palestinian youth show their skills during a graduation ceremony as part of a training camp run by the Hamas movement on January 29, 2015 in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP photo/Said Khatib)
April 26, 2017, 3:49 pm
Explosion in Gaza injures 2 at reported Hamas military site
One man critical, another moderately hurt in second such incident this month
By Dov Lieber
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