Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned on Thursday both Israel's air strikes against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and the rockets fired by Gaza militants to Israel.
The Hamas authorities in Gaza have kept a Bronze sculpture believed to be a statue of the Greek God " Apollo" in a secret location since a Palestinian fisherman found it last August buried under waters in a central Gaza beach, Hamas officials said Sunday.
Top UN envoy for the Middle East voiced deep concern over the deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip, a UN spokesperson said on Wednesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel remains steadfast in preventing rocket fire from the Gaza Strip against southern Israel.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon on Sunday warned Gaza militants against further rocket fire, saying Israel will strike anyone who threatens the lives of its civilians.
The Israeli defense forces said two rockets were fired from the Gaza strip into southern Israel on Monday afternoon, shortly after former prime minister Ariel Sharon was buried in his farm in the vicinity of the enclave.
The Israeli air force (IAF) struck militant targets in the Gaza Strip overnight in retaliation for a rocket attack on southern Israel from the coastal enclave Thursday evening, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
Egypt reopened its Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip after seven days of closure, allowing a limited number of people to leave and return to the Palestinian coastal enclave through its main border terminal.
A Palestinian diplomat said Sunday that Egypt had promised to reopen Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip "soon."
An Egyptian crackdown on tunnels beneath its borders with the Gaza Strip brought the smuggling passages to a full halt, an official from the Islamic Hamas Movement said Monday.
The border area between Egypt and Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip has been witnessing a significant escalation of the Egyptian army's security campaign of destroying dozens of tunnels underneath the borders that are used for smuggling, Hamas sources said on Sunday.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said Monday his country works to secure its borders with the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by Islamic Hamas movement.
Two rockets were fired towards southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, no casualties or damages were reported yet, police sources confirmed to Xinhua.
Head of Islamic Hamas movement's government accused Israel not committed to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, which was reached in November and it is subjected to collapse. Zaza said the Israeli government regretted pledges it had made when the ceasefire that Egypt had sponsored was reached on Nov. 21, mainly easing more than five years of an Israeli blockade imposed on Gaza since 2007.
Israel's intensified bombardment on the Gaza Strip and a threat of ground assault have met with strong objections from the international community, including the West.
The resolution, which was introduced by prime minister Najib Razak, condemned Israel's attack as a violation of international rights law, an unjustified brutality and a crime against humanity that breached the Fourth Geneva Convention 1949 on the protection of civilians in time of war.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu here on Tuesday evening that Washington will make great efforts to help Israel and the Palestinians find a sustainable solution to their long-running conflict.
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