Gaza

Tony Blair cancels visit to Gaza

Gaza City - Former British prime minister Tony Blair cancelled a visit to the Gaza Strip scheduled for Tuesday morning, Israel Radio reported. 

Hamas militant dies in explosion in Gaza

HamasGaza City - A Hamas militant died early Friday in an explosion near the southern

Explosion targets charity in southern Gaza Strip

Gaza City  - Unknown assailants detonated a bomb at the offices of a charity in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah in the early hours Thursday, witnesses said.

Two Palestinians die in Gaza tunnel collapse

Gaza City - Two Palestinians were killed Thursday when an underground tunnel dug for smuggling goods collapsed on them in the southern Gaza Strip, medical officials said.

Paramedics said they removed two dead bodies from the tunnel, which leads under the Gaza-Egypt border, to the east of the Rafah crossing. That crossing has been closed as part of economic sanctions on the Hamas-ruled Strip.

Two other people were injured and three others were missing, they said.

Officials at Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospital in Rafah said identified the dead as Mohammed Abdel Atti and Mahmoud Abu Dan, both in their twenties.

Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian near Gaza border

Gaza City - Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip Thursday in the first such incident since a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant groups took effect some three weeks

Explosion at Hamas training camp in Gaza kills at least two

Explosion at Hamas training camp in Gaza kills at least twoGaza City - An explosion ripped through a Hamas training camp in the southern Gaza Strip Tuesday, killing at least two militants of the radical Islamic movement and wounding two others, police and medical officials said. 

"The paramedics evacuated two dead bodies and two wounded persons and we expect more casualties because the blast destroyed the whole facility," said Gaza emergency services chief Mo'aweya Hassanein. 

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