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A military helicopter carrying IDF soldiers wounded in an explosion during a patrol along the Gaza border arrives at Beersheba's Soroka Medical Center on February 17, 2018. (Screen capture; Twitter)
February 17, 2018, 8:17 pm
Netanyahu vows Israel will respond to Gaza bombing as IAF hits targets in Strip
Minutes after PM's comments, IDF hits six targets in Strip; 4 soldiers wounded, two seriously, as bomb goes off next to patrol removing a flag from the border fence
By TOI staff
Israeli troops and first responders at the Gaza border following an explosion that targeted an IDF patrol, February 17, 2018 (Hadashot news screenshot)
February 17, 2018, 4:29 pm
Four soldiers wounded, two seriously by bomb targeting Gaza border patrol
Troops were removing a flag from border fence when blast occurred; IDF tank hits observation post; Netanyahu promises 'we will respond appropriately'
By TOI staff
Young Palestinians take part in a military graduation ceremony at a Hamas summer camp in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 18, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)
August 18, 2017, 10:23 pm
Hamas summer camp teaches youths to ‘liberate Palestine’
1,000 Gaza youngsters jump through fiery hoops, train with live fire for their graduation ceremony
By AFP
In this Sept. 8, 2016 file photo, heavy machinery works on a massive underground barrier that is expected to stretch along the entire 60-kilometer (40-mile) border when it is complete, on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)
August 16, 2017, 3:57 pm
Underground barrier credited with growth in Israeli towns near Gaza
With attack tunnel threat being dealt with, communities outside the Strip are seeing a population surge, official says
By Agencies and TOI staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Mohammad Dahlan, left, leave a news conference in Egypt, in February 2007. (AP/Amr Nabil)
July 4, 2017, 6:43 pm
‘Three-state’ reality emerges as Hamas-Dahlan leadership takes shape in Gaza
Political reconciliation in Strip likely to defer war with Israel in short term, but lead to deadlier confrontation later
By Avi Issacharoff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gestures after delivering a speech on the second day of the 7th Fatah Congress in the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 30, 2016. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
July 4, 2017, 4:05 pm
Prodding Hamas, Abbas fires 6,145 PA employees in Gaza
Ramallah spokesperson says measure part of ‘national strategy' to force terror group to cede control of Strip
By Dov Lieber
In this June 4, 2017, photo, a father and his children ride their donkey cart past the idled Gaza power plant at Nusseirat, in the central Gaza Strip (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
June 6, 2017, 4:49 pm
After decade of Hamas rule, Gaza short on freedom, jobs, power
Unable to offer a remedy, terror group has been doubling down on oppression. For the local population, life is bound to get worse
By AP and TOI staff
Members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, attend a memorial in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on January 31, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
April 6, 2017, 9:31 pm
US State Dept. designates Hamas commander a global terrorist
Abu Anas al-Ghandour, accused of involvement in Gilad Shalit abduction, sanctioned, US assets to be frozen
By JTA
Members of the Palestinian Hamas armed forces take part in a graduation ceremony in Gaza City on January 22, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)
March 4, 2017, 11:42 pm
In Gaza, the road to escalation grows shorter
While both Israel and Hamas have an interest in keeping the calm, it remains to be seen if the terror group will withstand internal pressures to make a show of force
By Avi Issacharoff
Palestinian Karam al-Zaaneen, 13, stands on the back of a donkey-pulled cart after collecting plastic for recycling at a garbage dump in Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip on May 18, 2016. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
June 11, 2016, 9:47 am
Wars and poverty force Gaza children to work
As child labor drops globally, the Palestinian enclave is seeing an opposite trend, with rates doubling in the past 5 years
By AFP and TOI staff
Islamic State's affiliate Sinai Province at weapons training, February 6, 2016 (illustrative image: Telegram.me/HaiAlaElJehad5 via MEMRI)
March 2, 2016, 9:28 am
Gazan Islamic State fighter blasts group’s close Hamas ties
In letter to 'caliph,' jihadist in Syria complains of joint military efforts with Hamas in Sinai even as group tortures IS supporters
By TOI staff
The waters off the coast of Gaza. (photo credit: CC-BY-SA ProIsraeli, Flickr)
January 30, 2016, 12:01 pm
Hamas says commando killed off Gaza coast
Terror group acknowledges man was killed during 'jihad mission' after local media claimed he was a drowned fisherman
By TOI staff
President Reuven Rivlin speaks during a ceremony marking the one-year anniversary of Operation Protective Edge at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2015. (Gili Yohanan/Flash90/Pool)
July 6, 2015, 11:05 pm
At first Gaza war memorial, Rivlin warns next conflict could be worse
President says Gaza can't be rehabilitated unless renewed rocket fire stops; Netanyahu issues warnings to Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and IS
By Tamar Pileggi
Hamas members patrol an area 300 meters from the Israeli border with Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where a road is being paved, on June 03, 2015. AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB
June 22, 2015, 6:36 am
Israel, Hamas in unspoken alliance against Gaza jihadists
Though both sides currently have an interest in keeping the calm, an Israeli military analyst warns things could turn around 'in a second'
By Fares Akram
A Palestinian Hamas security officer stands guard in Gaza, on October 9, 2014. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)
June 10, 2015, 9:20 pm
Hamas blames PA for recent Gaza Strip bombings
In recorded confession, alleged operative says he attempted to carry out bombing unders orders from Ramallah
By Daniel Bernstein
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