One year after last summer's Gaza war between Israel and the Hamas movement, peace still remains elusive despite a ceasefire that has largely taken hold along Israel's border with the coastal enclave.
The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) postponed on Sunday the final match of the Palestinian Soccer Cup after Israel banned West Bank footballers from playing in Gaza.
A growing tension between Islamic Hamas movement and Salafist groups overshadows the situation in the Gaza Strip, but analysts ruled out a comprehensive collision between the two sides.
At least two rockets fired by Gaza militants hit southern Israel late on Wednesday, in a second rocket attack launched from the Palestinian enclave over the past two weeks, Israeli officials said.
Israeli war jets struck with air-to-ground missiles early Thursday military facilities in the Gaza Strip in response to earlier rockets firing from the enclave into Israel, witnesses and security officials said.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday called upon the international community to establish a body to oversee rehabilitation in the Gaza Strip.
Leaders of Islamic Hamas movement and the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) denied late on Tuesday firing any rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
Israeli warplanes early Wednesday launched missile strikes on military training facilities in the Gaza Strip in response to earlier firing of four rockets into Israel, witnesses and security officials said.
Deputy chief of the Islamic Hamas movement, Ismail Haneya, called on Egypt Wednesday to permanently open the Rafah crossing point along the borders with the Gaza Strip.
An Israeli official on Tuesday denied a Jordanian report saying Israel has conducted talks with the Islamic Hamas movement over building a floating port to enable the transfer of goods to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The report is plainly "not true," the Israeli official, who asked to remain anonymous as he is not at liberty to discuss the topic, told Xinhua.
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter will pay a visit to the Gaza Strip on Thursday in a bid to end an internal Palestinian division, a senior Hamas official said Sunday.
A senior Islamic Hamas movement official said on Thursday that his group has not been aware of any rocket being fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
At least one rocket fired from Gaza hit Israel on Friday night, a spokesperson for the Israeli military said.
Hamas militants will retaliate if the Egyptian army wages attacks against the Islamic movement in the Gaza Strip, a senior Hamas official warned on Sunday.
A senior UN official on Monday expressed concerns over the isolation of the Gaza Strip, saying that the costal enclave is more isolated these days than any time else.
Dozens of Palestinians belonging to a radical Salafi group demonstrated in Gaza on Monday against the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo cartoons satirical of Prophet Muhammad of Islam.
Islamic Hamas movement on Sunday rejected the Israeli decision to investigate the last Israeli large-scale military operation that was waged on the Gaza Strip in early July and lasted for 50 days.
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