The Israeli army fired a Hamas military post on the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning after a group of Palestinians had broken through the fence on the border with Israel. Shortly afterwards, the group returned to the Gaza Strip.
Israel and Hamas have agreed to cease hostilities in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic group made the file known on Saturday. 'Egypt has succeeded in restoring peace by engaging in talks with the two parties in Israel and Gaza. We hope it will stand, 'said a Palestinian official.
In the Gaza Strip, four Palestinians died on Friday when the Israeli army carried out bombing with tanks and aircraft. According to the Palestinian authorities, there would also have been at least 120 wounded. Palestinians have been protesting for months in the border area with Israel.
Israel continues to tighten Hamas the thumbscrews by not fueling the Gaza Strip for the coming days, which is largely dependent on generators for its electricity.
Israel attacked two Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday. The attacks were a reaction to the fire balloons and the firefighters who have allowed militant Palestinians to fly across the border for months. The balloons have caused numerous large fires.
Israel and the armed groups in Gaza have agreed a cease-fire after a revival of Saturday's cross-border violence. That reports a Palestinian official.
Two Palestinian teenagers were killed during an Israeli air strike on Gaza City Saturday. That was reported by the Palestinian health authorities. These are the first deaths that fell on Saturday due to the escalating violence between the two parties.
Jet fighters and armed drones from the Israeli Air Force carried missile attacks on targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday night. According to reports in the local media and in security circles, military facilities of the Palestinian militant organization Hamas have been hit.
Militant Palestinians fired a series of grenades and rockets to Israeli territory on Tuesday night. According to Israeli media, about thirty projectiles were involved.
The US steps out of the UN Human Rights Council. That reports sources around the US government. Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo and the ambassador at UN Nikki Haley will announce the departure Tuesday (American time).
The United Nations General Assembly condemns Israel for the use of excessive force against Palestinian civilians. UN Secretary-General António Guterres was asked to recommend an 'international protection mechanism' for the occupied Palestinian territories.
In the case of new protests from Palestinians on the Gaza Strip at the border with Israel, Friday deaths and hundreds of injuries have occurred. The Israeli army shot sharply and with tear gas grenades when Palestinians threw stones and burned tires.
Israel is going to crack down on Hamas commanders and Palestinians who are trying to set fire from Gaza on the other side of the border. The resistance movement has discovered a new attack weapon, the 'fire flyer', soaked in diesel and oil. They stab them and let them do their work when the wind is right over the fence.
The Israeli army has shot a Palestinian man who, armed with an ax, tried to cross the border. Another man fled after they had damaged the fences at the border.
Palestinian militants have fired two missiles from Israel in the Gaza Strip. This is what the Israeli army reports, which says it has knocked down one of the projectiles. 'The other has apparently come down in the Gaza Strip.'
The medical emergency in the Gaza Strip is enormous with about 13,000 injured, which is why the Red Cross is sending extra doctors and specialists together with other emergency aid. Since 30 March, so many people have been injured in the protests against Israel that existing medical assistance is impossible, according to the chief of the international Red Cross in the region, Robert Mardini.
Ninety Dutch and 37 Dutch organizations call on the government to put pressure on Israel to end the blockade of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli Navy has stopped a ship with seventeen Palestinian activists on board. The 'al-Hurija' (The Freedom) had sailed out of the port of Gaza on Tuesday, accompanied by a few small boats, with the intention of breaking through the sea blockade by Israel.
The Israeli anti-aircraft fire has shot a number of rockets from the air in the south of the country. According to the army, the missiles came from the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians want to break the Israeli sea blockade of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday by way of protest. On board are, among others, people who have been wounded at the border during the confrontations with the Israeli army in recent weeks.
Two Palestinians were killed in an attack by the Israeli army in the south of the Gaza Strip on Sunday. That has been stated by the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The Israeli Air Force has again attacked positions of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip. The reports of the Palestinian authorities are confirmed by the Israeli army. For the time being, there are no reports of injuries and deaths, writes the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
The Israeli Air Force has sunk a ship on Wednesday morning in the port of Gaza City. According to the Israeli army it was a ship of the 'navy' of the Hamas movement.
Turkish president Erdogan is trying to show his aversion to Israel after the 62 deaths in Gaza early this week. He held a mega demonstration against Israel in Istanbul yesterday, after many others have been around Turkey.
An independent committee should investigate the Israeli army's violence against Palestinian demonstrators at the border between Gaza and Israel. The Human Rights Council of the UN has decided to do so. The committee is commissioned to find out whether humanitarian peoples law has been violated.
The violence that the Israeli army has used against protesting Palestinians on the border of Gaza is 'out of all proportion,' says UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ra'ad al-Hussein. At a UN meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, he stated that residents of the Gaza Strip were 'imprisoned in a toxic slum from their birth until their death.'
The Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has opened the border crossing of Egypt with Gaza at Rafah on Thursday for the entire period during Ramadan. He reported this via his official Twitter account.
For extra emergency aid to Gaza residents, the European Commission is donating 3 million euros. The money is distributed through international aid organizations and is intended for water, medicine and sanitation.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is calling back ambassadors in four European countries for consultation. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, it concerns diplomats in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Austria and Romania. Representatives from those countries attended activities around the opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem.
Israel has reacted indignantly to the treatment of the ambassador expelled by Turkey. Turkish media recorded how the Israeli diplomat Eitan Naveh had to undergo a security check at the Istanbul airport.
