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US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley points to previously classified missile segments she says prove Iran violated UN Security Council Resolution 2231 by providing the Houthi rebels in Yemen with arms, during a press conference at Joint Base Anacostia in Washington, DC, on December 14, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jim Watson)
December 14, 2017, 2:22 pm
Iran says US evidence on Yemen missiles is ‘fabricated’
Statement comes after US envoy Haley unveils missile parts as evidence Iran arming Houthis
By TOI staff
IDF troops conduct a training exercise near the Gaza Strip on December 6, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
December 6, 2016, 12:59 pm
Terrorists on motorcycles: IDF simulates cross-border attacks in Gaza Division drill
Hundreds of soldiers take part in exercise in southern Israel to improve preparedness, ties with civilian forces
By Judah Ari Gross
Gunmen from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing, patrol an area near the Israeli border with Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 3, 2015 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
June 28, 2015, 2:35 pm
Hamas masses troops on Israeli border, trains for new round of fighting
Still, wrapped up in tension between its military and political wings, Gaza's ruling Islamist group isn't keen on engaging Israel anytime soon
By Avi Issacharoff
Palestinians carry the body of a Hamas militant killed in an Israeli air strike in Rafah, July 17, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
April 29, 2015, 8:28 am
Hamas’s chief of staff alive and active, Israel confirms
Muhammad Deif survived last summer's assassination attempt and is overseeing rehabilitation of group's offensive capabilities
By TOI staff
A tunnel found in the northern Gaza Strip by the Israel Defense Forces, August 3, 2014. (IDF spokesperson/Flash90)
April 16, 2015, 10:28 pm
Israel deploying revolutionary anti-tunnel system on Gaza border
Detection mechanism for Hamas attack tunnels successfully tested, now to be expanded; residents cautiously welcome protection
By Daniel Bernstein
Israeli soldiers rest in southern Israel along the border with Gaza (background), August 06, 2014. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 4, 2015, 4:56 pm
Anxious residents watch IDF leave Gaza Strip area
Soldiers will remain only in communities closest to border with Hamas-controlled Palestinian enclave
By Stuart Winer and Tamar Pileggi
Brig. Gen. (ret.) Shalom Harari (photo credit: YouTube)
December 21, 2014, 10:58 pm
700 troops could have died retaking Gaza, ex-general says
Former senior IDF official says Hamas wanted to draw soldiers into central Gaza's maze of tunnels
By Abraham Rabinovich and TOI staff
Nepalese Army soldiers carry an avalanche victim before he is airlifted in Thorong La pass area, Nepal, Wednesday, October 15, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Nepalese Army)
October 17, 2014, 12:53 pm
Disaster in the Himalayas
The press mourns the deaths of Israeli backpackers killed in the Nepal blizzard, and Haaretz has revelations on the cause of the summer war
By Marissa Newman
Workers on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing into the Gaza Strip, December 2011 (photo credit Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
October 14, 2014, 3:52 pm
First trucks with reconstruction supplies enter Gaza
Transfer of 600 tons of cement, 400 tons of steel, and exports to West Bank overseen by PA, UN at Kerem Shalom crossing
By Avi Issacharoff and Marissa Newman
A rocket explodes in the Kerem Shalom border crossing compound, hindering the flow of goods into Gaza, on August 10, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/zafat 1986)
August 10, 2014, 7:50 pm
Gaza terrorists shell crossing point used to transfer supplies to Strip
Kerem Shalom, the main artery for goods and materials to move from Israel into coastal enclave, closed after attack
By Stuart Winer
Palestinians in a car with their belongings drive past a destroyed house in Rafah's district of Shawkah in the southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)
August 9, 2014, 9:48 pm
Gazans struggle with rising prices as bombs fall
Enclave's already shattered economy feeling the pinch of bombardment as prices for staple foods start to climb
By AFP
Adele Raemer points out an unexploded missile just 20 meters from the kibbutz playground on Tuesday, August 6, at Kibbutz Nirim near Gaza. (photo credit: Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
August 6, 2014, 6:40 am
They thought it was rockets they had to be scared of
As ceasefire inspires flickers of hope in the battered towns and kibbutzim near Gaza, residents begin to internalize the new trauma of tunnels
By Melanie Lidman
Palestinian brothers sit on the rubble of their house in front of an apartment block in part of the northern Beit Hanoun district of the Gaza Strip on August 5, 2014. (photo creditAFP/MARCO LONGARI)
August 5, 2014, 4:30 pm
As fighting halts, IDF chief promises help to rehabilitate Gaza
Gazan officials say tens of thousands of homes were destroyed during operation, and infrastructure is severely damaged
By Adiv Sterman
Hamas supporters in Gaza hold Hezbollah and Islamic flags as they demonstrate against the Israeli offensive in Lebanon, July 30, 2006. (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)
August 4, 2014, 7:57 pm
Hamas, Hezbollah and the tunnels: Who’s inspiring whom?
Hamas had been digging tunnels in Gaza for decades. But it was only after the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000 that it saw them as part of the route to 'liberation'
By Elhanan Miller
Fans line up for autographs from Matti Caspi, the iconic musician and singer who showed up at Kibbutz Be'eri for an impromptu concert, Thursday, July 31, 2014. (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
August 1, 2014, 1:30 pm
An iconic singer comes to a kibbutz on the border
The community members need it, said Caspi. 'For a minute, they forget everything.'
By Jessica Steinberg
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