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Palestinians try to use a kite to fly a Molotov Cocktail toward IDF troops along the Gaza fence on April 13 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 15, 2018, 9:36 pm
Gazans fly kite with petrol bomb into Israel, where it starts fire in field
Third such incident in recent days causes small blaze in field of Kibbutz Kissufim adjacent to border
By TOI staff
Footage filmed through a scope, publicized on April 9, 2018, that appears to show the moment before an Israeli sniper shoots a Palestinian who approached the Gaza security fence. (Screen capture)
April 10, 2018, 4:18 pm
Army clears sniper filmed shooting Gazan, denounces cameraman
Defense minister calls IDF 'the most moral army in the world,' says soldiers sometimes need to 'let out some tension'; IDF says suspect was wounded in the leg
By Judah Ari Gross and Alexander Fulbright
Palestinian terrorists from the Islamic Jihad group attend the funeral of comrades killed in an Israeli operation to blow up a tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into Israel, during their funeral at the Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, on October 31, 2017 (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
October 31, 2017, 8:36 pm
Islamic Jihad doesn’t want to rain on the reconciliation parade
Pressure from Hamas and Egypt holds terror group back from retaliating for Israel's destruction of its Gaza attack tunnel and the deaths of its men
By Avi Issacharoff
The body of Marwan Alagha, 22, is carried by mourners after he was killed when Israel blew up a tunnel built by the Islamic Jihad terror group stretching from the Gaza Strip into its territory, at Naser hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 30, 2017. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
October 31, 2017, 12:59 am
Despite huge tunnel setback, Islamic Jihad likely won’t start war with Israel
After IDF destroys cross-border attack tunnel, killing terrorists, Gazan terror group faces pressure from enclave rulers Hamas to avoid conflict
By Avi Issacharoff
Illustrative. A picture taken on May 6, 2016, from the Israeli side of the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip shows the exit of a newly unearthed Hamas attack tunnel. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)
October 30, 2017, 2:53 pm
IDF destroys attack tunnel in Israeli territory built after 2014 war
Military says passage, dug from Gaza's Khan Younis, was under active construction, holds Hamas responsible
By Judah Ari Gross
Scene of the accidental drowning death of Ilan Yankilevich, near Kibbutz Kissufim in southern Israel, on July 27, 2016. (Screen capture: Channel 10)
March 7, 2017, 12:43 am
3 former IDF officers charged in case of drowned soldier
Military prosecutor accuses 2 suspects of negligent manslaughter in drowing death of Ilan Yankilevich last July
By TOI staff
A Palestinian man runs for cover as smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on a Hamas post in the northern Gaza Strip, February 6, 2017. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)
February 6, 2017, 10:05 pm
Hamas: Israel ‘fully accountable’ for any escalation in fighting
Terror group calls on world to stop Israeli 'aggression' after rocket fired from Gaza Strip met with airstrikes, tank shelling
By TOI staff
Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi speaks at the Herzliya Conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on June 15, 2016. (Screen capture: IDC Herzliya)
September 20, 2016, 12:47 pm
Commanders of drowned IDF soldier to be dismissed
Army investigation into death of Ilan Yankilevich finds problems with senior officers' command, routine safety procedures
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: Israeli forces next to the security fence on the border between Israel and southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
March 7, 2016, 4:54 pm
Palestinians say Gaza man shot, wounded by IDF
Israel says soldiers securing border came under attack, but only responded with warning shots into the air
By Judah Ari Gross and Stuart Winer
Benny Gantz visiting a training drill on November 13, 2014. (photo credit: Gadi Yampel/IDF Spokerperson/Flash90)
December 24, 2014, 7:12 pm
IDF will respond firmly to threats, Gantz vows after Gaza attack
Army chief warns of deteriorating situation along borders; Netanyahu says Israel will 'react forcefully'; UN expresses concern
By TOI staff
An IDF soldier wounded in a cross-border attack outside Gaza is carried into Soroka Hospital in the southern city of Beersheba on December 24, 2014 (Flash90)
December 24, 2014, 11:41 am
IDF soldier seriously injured in Gaza border incident
Palestinians say Hamas surveillance commander killed in Israeli response to shooting attack on army patrol near Kissufim
By Lazar Berman
The Israeli border fence with Gaza (David Buimovitch/Flash90)
November 16, 2014, 7:17 pm
IDF soldiers shoot Palestinian near Gaza border
Unarmed individual, a 10-year-old according to some reports, critically injured after approaching security fence
By Adiv Sterman
Kibbutz Nir Am resident Micha Ben Hillel points at Gaza from a mound outside his community (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
October 13, 2014, 2:44 pm
Sick of ceasefires, Israelis near Gaza demand an agreement
While some border residents dream of a bike ride to Gaza beach, others harbor more modest expectations
By Elhanan Miller
An IDF armored vehicle near the Gaza Strip. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
May 11, 2014, 5:02 pm
Palestinian wounded by IDF fire near Gaza fence
Man suffers mild injuries after allegedly 'tampering with the ground' in buffer zone by Erez crossing
By Adiv Sterman
A view of a tunnel dug by Palestinians beneath the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel and recently uncovered by Israeli troops, on October 13, 2013. (photo credit: David Buimovitch/Flash90)
November 1, 2013, 2:24 am
5 IDF soldiers injured near Khan Younis in Gaza
Apparent Hamas mortar attack targets Israelis attempting to blow up terror tunnel; one soldier in serious condition
By Yoel Goldman
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