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Abu Hamza, spokesman of the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad terror group, addresses Palestinians and threatens Israel in a video message broadcast on March 29, 2019. (Screenshot: Al-Quds Brigades)

March 30, 2019, 4:07 am

Islamic Jihad warns Israel of war if civilians killed during protests

Iranian-backed terror group calls for Gazans to join mass demonstrations scheduled for Saturday, issues threat to IDF forces on border

By TOI staff

A Gazan attempts to damage a border fence in footage released by the IDF from May 14, 2018 violence at the border. (IDF)

March 27, 2019, 9:11 pm

Israel says over 2,000 violent incidents originated in Gaza in past year

Statistical review finds Palestinians launched 1,233 rockets from the Strip, hurled 94 explosive devices and 600 Molotov cocktails across the border fence

By AP and TOI staff

Illustrative: A picture taken on on October 27, 2018, shows smoke rising following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

October 29, 2018, 12:25 am

Palestinians say three killed in IDF Gaza strike were boys aged 13-14

Army says it attacked a squad of Palestinians who were apparently trying to place explosive device near border fence in southern part of coastal enclave

By Jacob Magid

Illustrative. An explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, on October 27, 2018. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

October 28, 2018, 9:13 pm

3 Gazans said killed in IDF strike while attempting to plant explosives

Squad of Palestinians were sabotaging border fence in southern part of coastal enclave, army says

By Jacob Magid

July 13, 2018, 2:24 pm

Larry Luxner

You CAN be in more than one place at a time

‘Stand under that tree, and put yer left foot in Arkansas, yer right foot in Louisiana, and piss all over Texas!’

Illustrative: Iraqi army reinforcements drive down a road, linking Hawija to Kirkuk, near the village of Khabbaz on October 7, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Marwan IBRAHIM)

July 1, 2018, 6:45 pm

Iraq begins building border fence with Syria to block jihadists

First 20 kilometers of 600-km border reinforced with barbed wire, surveillance towers, trench, thermal cameras and drones

By AFP

US Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen in Jerusalem, June 11, 2018 (Courtesy Public Security Ministry)

June 13, 2018, 2:53 am

DHS secretary tours Israel-Egypt border for Mexico wall inspiration — report

Kirstjen Nielsen tells Jerusalem security conference ‘Islamist militants are preeminent terror threat to our lives’

By TOI staff and JTA

Surveillance footage showing 2 Palestinian men attempting to breach the border fence and enter Israeli territory on June 2, 2018. (IDF)

June 2, 2018, 2:58 pm

IDF troops open fire at Gazans breaching border fence

Army says Palestinians were seeking to damage ‘security infrastructure’ in Israel, fled back into Strip after being shot at

By TOI staff

Israeli snipers prepare for massive protests by Palestinians in Gaza and the potential for demonstrators to try to breach the security fence on March 30, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

April 30, 2018, 9:50 pm

Israel’s use of live fire in Gaza protests faces legal test

High Court begins hearing case as 6 human rights groups ask it to declare regulations as unlawful; defending its policies, state says it’s not facing civilian protests

By Agencies and TOI staff

Palestinian protesters pull a metal cable as they try to take down a section of barbed wire during clashes with Israeli forces on April 20, 2018, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)

April 21, 2018, 3:30 am

IDF probing report, video of 15-year-old said killed in Gaza clashes

Footage appears to show Mohammed Ibrahim Ayoub shot in the head; PA to demand independent UN investigation of Israeli actions in the Strip

By TOI staff and Agencies

Palestinian medics evacuate a wounded protester during clashes with Israeli forces on April 20, 2018, east of Gaza City (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)

April 20, 2018, 10:57 pm

UN envoy tells ‘outrageous’ Israel to stop shooting children in Gaza

Palestinians say four killed, including a 15-year-old boy; Israel urges UN to condemn Hamas for ‘despicable exploitation of women and children’

By TOI staff and Agencies

A Palestinian man hurls stones at Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Friday, April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

April 20, 2018, 2:51 pm

Palestinians say four, including boy, 15, killed by IDF during Gaza protest

Some 3,000 gather at border clashing with IDF soldiers, sending burning kites over fence to try and set Israeli fields alight

By TOI staff and Agencies

A Palestinian throws a rock toward Israeli soldiers during clashes near the border fence east of Gaza City on February 23, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

February 23, 2018, 5:55 pm

2 Palestinians wounded by IDF fire during riots along Gaza fence

Army says 350 demonstrators take part in violent protests, plant flag along border amid heightened alert after last week’s bomb attack

By TOI staff

Soldiers holding a position in a mountainous area near the eastern town of Ras Baalbek during an operation against jihadist fighters, on August 17, 2017, in a photograph taken during a tour guided by the Lebanese army. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)

February 20, 2018, 2:37 am

Lebanese army chief vows to confront ‘Israeli aggression,’ no matter the cost

Disputes over a border wall Israel is building and contested rights to offshore natural gas have raised tensions along the northern border

By TOI staff and Agencies

Crews work on a border wall prototype near the border with Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, in San Diego. Companies are nearing an Oct. 26 deadline to finish building eight prototypes of President Donald Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

October 20, 2017, 4:50 am

Prototypes for Trump’s wall, including Israeli model, take shape on border

Last of eight possible designs for president’s promised barrier along Mexico frontier put up in Sand Diego as fence hoppers nabbed nearby

By AP