Israel arrests Palestinian Speaker
GAZA CITY- Gaza’s Hamas prime minister on Friday called on Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to end all dialogue with Israel after troops arrested parliamentary speaker Aziz Dweik.
In a speech during weekly Friday prayers, Ismail Haniya also urged Abbas to reconvene the long-dormant Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), or parliament, whose activities have been frozen for nearly five …
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Israeli strike kills two Palestinians in Gaza
GAZA: An Israeli aircraft and tank strike killed two Palestinians close to the border fence in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Wednesday, medical officials said. Residents of the north Gaza town of Beit Hanoun said Israeli planes and tanks had fired into the area. An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the attack and an army statement [...]
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Gas pipeline blast suspends supply to Sindh
QUETTA – Unidentified people blew up a main gas pipeline in the early hours of Saturday, suspending supply to various areas of Sindh.
According to police officials, unknown people had fitted explosives to an 18-inch diameter gas pipeline in Malgazar, near Gott Jani Khan area of Jaffarabad. The explosives went off with a big bang, destroying a large portion of the pipeline and suspending gas …
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Change only through elections: Gilani
Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Saturday said he wants electioneering to gear up in the country, as change should only be through elections. Talking to a gathering of lawyers in Lahore, PM said that it was Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) that fought the battle for the restoration of judiciary as well as democracy. During the speech, a group of lawyers started booing the prime …
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Israeli Gaza air strike kills one, injures one: Palestinians
GAZA CITY: An Israeli air strike east of Gaza City on Friday killed one man and injured at least another, Palestinian medical officials told AFP. The Israeli military said that the target was a group of men preparing to fire a rocket into Israel. “Aircraft targeted a terrorist squad that was identified moments before firing [...]
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Israeli strike kills 2 suspected militants in Gaza
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Two suspected militants were killed in an Israeli missile strike on their vehicle near a crowded public park in Gaza City on Thursday, a Palestinian health official said. The Israeli military confirmed it carried out an airstrike and said it targeted two militants who were planning to infiltrate Israel. It…
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Israel army, intel websites down after hacker threat
JERUSALEM: The websites of Israel’s military and its intelligence services were down Sunday, two days after a hacker group appeared to threaten the Jewish state over its interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla. The websites of the Israel Defence Forces, the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency and the Mossad foreign intelligence service were all unavailable through [...]
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Israeli air raids kill Gaza militant
GAZA CITY: Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed an Islamic Jihad militant and wounded three other Palestinians on Saturday, Palestinian medics and witnesses said. Security sources said three raids targeted the city of Khan Yunis, with the first two not causing casualties. Witnesses said Abed Muhana, 20, a member of the Al-Quds Brigades, [...]
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Israel navy intercepts flotilla ships off Gaza coast
JERUSALEM: The Israeli navy on Friday boarded two international ships carrying pro-Palestinian activists who were trying to run the blockade on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, a military statement said. The Irish-flagged Saoirse (“Freedom”) and the Canadian ship Tahrir (Arabic for “Liberation”) were intercepted by naval commandos in international waters off the Gaza coast, ending the [...]
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Israeli air strikes kill nine militants
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A spiralling round of Israeli air strikes and rocket fire from Gaza claimed the lives of nine Palestinian militants and one Israeli civilian on Saturday following weeks of relative calm. The Israeli air force targeted a group of militants in southern Gaza on Saturday morning that it said was preparing…
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Egyptian efforts at Gaza cease-fire fail
GAZA CITY: Egyptian officials say efforts to persuade Palestinian militants in Gaza to hold their rocket fire on Israel have failed, after a day of deadly, escalated violence. The officials say they tried to arrange a cease-fire set at 3. a.m. Sunday, but did not win agreement from factions responsible for the rocket attacks. They [...]
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Egypt brokers ceasefire after bloodshed
GAZA CITY: Egypt helped broker a fresh ceasefire by militants in Gaza Sunday, after violence left nine Palestinians and one Israeli dead, sources close to the groups said. The agreement came after Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip Saturday and early Sunday killed nine Islamic Jihad militants, while retaliatory rocket fire killed one Israeli. [...]
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Israeli airstrike kill 5 Gaza militants
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Israeli aircraft killed 5 Palestinian militants from the Islamic Jihad group whom it says were responsible for recent rocket attacks on Israel, the military said Saturday. The military said it targeted the same group of militants that fired rockets that exploded near the Israeli city of Ashdod Wednesday night. No…
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Israel kills top militants in Gaza base attack
GAZA: Israel’s air force bombed an Islamic Jihad camp in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing a commander of the Palestinian faction and four of its munitions experts, officials on both sides said. The strike in Rafah, a town in Gaza’s border with Egypt, followed a Palestinian cross-border rocket launch this week which the [...]
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Hamas releases Israeli soldier in prisoner swap
Gaza’s Hamas rulers released captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on Tuesday in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, a Hamas military source said, in a deal ending a saga that has gripped Israel for five years.
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Stars align for Mideast prisoner deal
JERUSALEM: The contours of the prisoner swap deal between Israel and the Hamas militant group have long been known: Israel would free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for an Israeli soldier held in the Gaza Strip. But it required a unique set of circumstances, ranging from domestic problems on both sides to a revolution [...]
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Israeli tank fire kills Palestinian
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GAZA CITY (AFP) – A Palestinian was killed in northern Gaza near the border with Israel on Monday, the DFLP group and medics said, in circumstances disputed by the Israeli army. Adham Abu Selmiya, spokesman for Gaza’s emergency services, said a man had been killed by Israeli tank fire but…
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