Posts Tagged ‘Gaza’
Hamas official: Gaza militants agree to cease-fire (AP)
AP – Gaza militants agreed to a cease-fire with Israel to stop spiking violence, a Hamas official said Sunday, after a deadly attack across the Egyptian border on Israeli vehicles set off a three-day round of rapidly escalating Israeli airstrikes and rocket barrages from Gaza.
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Gaza militants keep up rocket fire on Israel (AP)
AP – Gaza militants fired a fresh barrage of rockets and mortars on southern Israel early Sunday as a new convulsion of Israeli-Palestinian violence threatened to escalate.
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Gaza militants keep up barrages on Israel (AP)
AP – Gaza militants are keeping up their rocket and mortar barrages on Israel.
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After 4 years, Egypt reopens its border with Gaza (AP)
AP – Egypt lifted a 4-year-old blockade of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, greatly easing travel restrictions on the 1.5 million residents of the Palestinian territory in a move that bolstered the Hamas government while dealing a setback to Israel’s attempts to isolate the militant group.
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Egypt permanently opens Gaza border crossing (AP)
AP – After four years, Egypt on Saturday permanently opened the Gaza Strip’s main gateway to the outside world, bringing long-awaited relief to the territory’s Palestinian population and a significant achievement for the area’s ruling Hamas militant group.
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Egypt TV: Blast, fire at gas pipeline near Gaza (AP)
AP – An explosion went off Saturday morning at a gas compressor station in Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula, triggering a huge fire along the gas pipeline, Egyptian media and witnesses said.
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Egypt: Militant group in Gaza behind church attack (AP)
AP – An al-Qaida-linked group in Gaza was behind the New Year’s Day suicide bombing that killed at least 21 Christians and wounded about a hundred outside a church in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, the country’s top security official announced Sunday.
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