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.
Militants in the Gaza Strip fired on Saturday night a rocket at southern Israel, a second such attack from the Palestinian enclave that hit the Jewish state in less than one week, 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.
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.
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.
The Egypt's State Lawsuits Authority appealed Wednesday against a recent court order listing the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas as a terrorist organization.
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.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday accused the Islamic Hamas movement of carrying out Friday's bombing attacks against properties of his Fatah Party's leaders in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday lashed out at militant Islamists in a speech at the United Nations, saying Palestinian militant group Hamas and the Islamic State (IS) "share a fanatical creed".
The indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinians on restoring calm in the Gaza Strip are set to resume in Cairo, a senior Islamic Hamas movement's official said on Sunday.
A senior Palestinian official said on Tuesday that the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip is linked to giving full performance and authority to the Palestinian unity government formed in June.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday that he does not believe it is possible to reach a long-standing, permanent truce with Hamas, local media reported.
An Israeli diplomatic official said on Sunday that Hamas has started to rebuild its military capabilities, including rebuilding tunnels and rockets, local media reported.
Israelis and Palestinians on Wednesday both claimed "victory" in the Gaza war, one day after the long-term cease-fire came into effect.
1st LD Israel accepts Egyptian ceasefire proposal: reports
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