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Gaza buffer zone

Hamas terror operatives open fire on an Israeli army vehicle near Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, April 19, 2025, in footage released by the terror group. (Screenshot: Telegram)
April 22, 2025, 11:13 am
Weekend Hamas ambush lays bare vulnerability of Israeli-held Gaza buffer zone
Well-armed terror cell likely knew of IDF logistics road near border, where unarmored vehicles drive to one of over a dozen static army posts inside Strip
By Emanuel Fabian
Buildings razed in Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood, as part of the army's efforts to establish a buffer zone on the border with the Gaza Strip, in an image provided by the IDF on January 10, 2024. The Israel-Gaza border runs across the bottom of the picture. (Israel Defense Forces)
September 5, 2024, 8:53 am
Amnesty International calls for war crimes probe over creation of Gaza buffer zone
Rights group cites satellite data and soldiers’ clips, decries ‘wanton destruction and of collective punishment’; Israel says buffer zone needed to prevent another Oct. 7 massacre
By Agencies and ToI Staff
This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the Gaza Strip on January 30, 2024. Satellite photos showed new demolition along a 1-kilometer-deep path on the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, according to an analysis by The Associated Press and expert reports. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
February 2, 2024, 6:38 am
Satellite photos show new demolition within Israeli buffer zone in Gaza
Hebrew University researcher says of the roughly 2,850 buildings within 1-kilometer deep strip of land along frontier that could potentially be razed, 1,000 have been damaged
By Agencies and ToI Staff
File: Israeli soldiers seen at a staging area near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, November 30, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
December 2, 2023, 7:23 pm
Israel said to tell neighbors and US of plans to create Gaza buffer zone after war
Idea said aimed at preventing future terror attacks after October 7 onslaught; Washington has insisted Gaza territory cannot be reduced
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Police officers evacuate a woman and a child from a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
October 7, 2023, 1:10 pm
Residents near Gaza Strip beg for IDF help as they fight off terrorists
Speaking from safe rooms close to the infiltrated Gaza border, locals say there is little military presence in their communities as gunmen freely move house to house
By ToI Staff
A parakeet is tied to a stick by a Palestinian youth, as a trap to attract birds of its kind in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, August 22, 2022. (AP/Fatima Shbair)
August 24, 2022, 9:53 pm
Coveted as pets inside Gaza, invasive birds lure trappers to tense border
Ring-necked parakeets sell for NIS 30 (about $10), providing a small source of income to those who catch them in the Hamas-run territory
By Fares Akram
A Palestinian man cuts wood using a chainsaw in a traditional charcoal production site in the town of Jabaliya, Northern Gaza Strip, January 7, 2021.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
January 15, 2021, 9:44 am
With power crisis, out-of-work woodcutters see opportunity in Gaza
Tight Israeli-Egyptian blockade, weak ties with PA have resulted in unreliable power, driving up demand for wood in winter
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Egyptian army personnel supervise the destruction of tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip at the border, near the town of Rafah, northern Sinai, Egypt, September 2013. (photo credit: AP/AP Television)
May 13, 2015, 9:01 pm
Egypt cracks down on Gaza tunnels, but faces setbacks in Sinai
As President Sissi claims ‘massive results’ achieved in regional operation, jihadists kill seven in fresh attack
By ToI Staff and AFP
A Kometz soldier, standing on a ladder on the Gaza side of the barrier, fixing the fence (photo credit: Netta Asner/IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
February 19, 2015, 12:39 pm
On the frontline with Gaza, fence menders face nightly peril
Under cover of darkness, the soldiers of the Kometz unit risk sniper fire, bombs, rocks and more to maintain border defense
By Mitch Ginsburg
An Egyptian army vehicle patrols along the border with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in the divided border town of Rafah on November 4, 2014. (Mohamed El-Sherbeny/AFP)
January 6, 2015, 10:40 am
Egypt to expand Gaza buffer zone to up to 2 kilometers
Hundreds of families in Rafah to be evicted as Cairo ramps up crackdown on arms smuggling to Islamists in the Sinai
By Avi Issacharoff
Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mashaal, June 23, 2014 (photo credit: YouTube image)
December 27, 2014, 12:55 pm
Hamas said concerned by Egypt-Qatar thaw
According to Arab press, Khaled Mashaal fears Doha may shun him to appease Sissi; Hamas claims no change in ties
By ToI Staff
Egyptian families collect their belongings as they leave their houses during a military operation in the Egyptian city of Rafah, near the border with the southern Gaza Strip, on October 30, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/STR)
November 28, 2014, 1:22 am
Amnesty pans Egypt’s ‘unlawful evictions’ on Gaza border
Rights groups says Cairo violating international law by not giving adequate warning, sufficient compensation
By AFP
A truck loaded with horses arrives at the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Israel, while workers check the aid in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 21, 2014 photo. (photo credit: AP/Eyad Baba)
November 4, 2014, 11:24 am
Israel reopens Gaza crossings
Erez and Kerem Shalom were closed for two days following Friday’s rocket fire from the Strip at Israel
By Spencer Ho and AFP
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