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Israel pressed its campaign against the Palestinian uprising on two fronts Thursday, broadening an offensive into the southern Gaza Strip while, in Tel Aviv, an Israeli court convicted a Palestinian […]

Israel will substantially widen an army-patrolled zone at the southern end of the Gaza Strip near the border with Egypt, a step that will involve demolishing many Palestinian buildings, a […]

Americans struggling to make sense, or maybe political hay, out of the violence convulsing Iraq turn almost reflexively to the searing experience of the Vietnam War. Israel is haunted by […]

Each side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict wants to prove to the other that a proposed Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is evidence of its own strength. But each is […]

Israeli armored forces raided the outskirts of two neighboring refugee camps in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, igniting a gun-and-grenade battle that lasted for hours and left 14 Palestinians dead. […]

Israeli forces raided Arab banks on Wednesday in Ramallah, on the West Bank, seizing millions of dollars representing hundreds of institutional and personal accounts that Israel said were financing Palestinian […]

Israel sealed off the Gaza Strip on Thursday, keeping out thousands of Palestinians with Israeli permits a day after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed four Israelis near the Erez crossing […]

With a towering concrete slab lowered almost tenderly into a ragged street, Israel began drawing a hard line around Jerusalem on Sunday, walling it off from Abu Dis, an Arab […]

The Israeli Army blew up three vacant apartment buildings in the Gaza Strip on Sunday near a settlement where a Palestinian gunman killed three soldiers early Friday, as a debate […]

It is not unusual for Israelis and Palestinians to have opposing, vivid versions of reality. But it is unusual for both sides to display the kind of concrete, if conflicting, […]

Israeli warplanes and helicopter gunships struck Gaza five times Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding more than 90, Palestinian hospital authorities said, as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon affirmed […]

Israeli forces scouring a refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip for smuggling tunnels killed three Palestinians early Saturday, including two gunmen from the militant group Hamas and a bystander, […]

In the Israeli Army's largest raid into the Gaza Strip since its partial withdrawal in June, troops swept into a central Gaza refugee camp early today and killed a Hamas […]

Mahmoud Abbas submitted his resignation as Palestinian prime minister today, and Israel tried to kill the spiritual leader and founder of Hamas with an airstrike in Gaza City, as the […]

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian prime minister favored by the Bush administration and Israel as an alternative to Yasir Arafat and as an agent of Middle East peace, plans to announce […]

In the sixth Israeli airstrike in less than two weeks, helicopter gunships fired four missiles at a car in heavy traffic in Gaza City today, killing at least one member […]

In separate incidents, Israeli troops killed two militants from Hamas with an airstrike and an 8-year-old girl with tank fire in the Gaza Strip today, Palestinian witnesses and officials said. […]

Palestinian gunmen shot dead an Israeli settler and wounded his pregnant wife on the West Bank today, as Israeli forces raided the northern Gaza Strip for a second day, bulldozing […]

While pressing its offensive against Hamas, Israel killed an elderly shopkeeper and wounded more than 20 other Palestinians tonight with an airstrike north of Gaza City that missed its target, […]

Israeli forces killed four members of Hamas, including a militant leader, with an airstrike in Gaza City tonight, shortly after Palestinian security commanders in Gaza said they had given orders […]

The Palestinian Authority offered today to begin to fight terrorism and to reach an effective Palestinian cease-fire if Israel halted its own military operations. Israel rejected the proposal, and the […]

Hamas and Islamic Jihad formally abandoned their declared cease-fire with Israel today, after the Israelis used missiles fired from a helicopter gunship to kill a top political leader of Hamas […]

Israeli forces reinforced positions around Ramallah and raided three other West Bank cities overnight Wednesday. The moves came as Israel ratcheted up pressure on the Palestinian leadership to strike against […]

Israeli and Palestinian commanders failed to reach an agreement late Sunday night over Israel's planned transfer to Palestinian security control of two West Bank cities, even though both sides had […]

SO far, as the adversaries here follow the international peace plan known as the road map, the most important gear to each of them is reverse. Each side has been […]

Acknowledging American concerns about segments of the West Bank barrier it is building, Israel has agreed not to construct those segments until it reaches a compromise with the Bush administration, […]

Taking his 5-year-old son Michael by the hand, Elias Thaljieh led him up the hill today to Manger Square to watch solemnly as Palestinian police officers, in pressed new uniforms […]

Israeli and Palestinian leaders reached agreement tonight for Israeli forces to begin withdrawing from areas of the Gaza Strip and returning security control to Palestinian officers, officials familiar with the […]

As Palestinian officials said they were finishing the details of a three-month suspension of all violence against Israelis, Palestinian militant groups increased their attacks on Thursday, and Israeli forces killed […]

In rounding up at least 130 Palestinians today in what it called a sweep for Hamas terrorists, the Israeli Army once again rattled fragile negotiations among Palestinians over halting violence […]

In a show of defiance directed at Israel and the new Palestinian government, hundreds of masked and armed fighters from the militant Hamas movement marched through the streets of Gaza […]

In a series of military strikes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians today, and soldiers blocked more than 1,000 Palestinian men and boys from […]

With missiles launched from helicopters, Israel killed a top leader of Hamas and his three bodyguards in Gaza City today, shortly before Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, nominated a critic […]

Israeli tanks and armored vehicles entrenched themselves today in the dunes of this Palestinian town, and in a significant stepping up of its military campaign, the army said it would […]

Eleven Palestinians were killed today when armored Israeli forces stormed this cinder-block warren before dawn while pursuing a Hamas leader, hours after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 15 people aboard […]

Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians today while repelling separate attacks on an army outpost and a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, the army and militant groups said. The […]

Over sugary coffee and hot mincemeat sandwiches, the young men gathered here to plot revenge. They were all in their 20's, an age that might lead such a group to […]

Israel sent armored columns storming into the northern Gaza Strip and this West Bank city today, killing at least 12 Palestinians as troops clashed with gunmen, demolished metal shops and […]

Israel pressed its campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip today, using undercover troops to surprise and kill one militant and sending an armored detachment to level the family home […]

While demolishing the home of a Palestinian militant in the Gaza Strip today, Israeli forces crushed to death his 65-year-old stepmother, who apparently did not hear their warnings to leave, […]