Gaza - Gaza-based television broadcaster al-Aqsa Saturday den

Al-Arish, Egypt - Egypt opened its border with the Gaza Strip for two days Tuesday after an agreement between the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel, security sources said.

Tel Aviv/Gaza City - Israel again blocked the entry of goods into Gaza Tuesday, after Palestinian militants launched another rocket from the area into Israeli territory, in another violation of a w

Gaza City  - Palestinian factions argued Saturday they had the right to respond to Israeli violations of an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire which took hold in the Gaza Strip nine days ago.

The argument intensified after Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, criticized two other groups for firing rockets into Israel in defiance of the ceasefire.

The small armed Islamic Jihad and another group claiming to be affiliated with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement fired the rockets on three occasions in recent days to retaliate for an Israeli military action in the West Bank.

The West Bank has not been included in the ceasefire.

Gaza/Tel Aviv  - Israel kept key goods crossings into the Gaza Strip closed for a third day running Friday, in response to violations of a one-week-old, fragile truce.

Cairo  - Egypt made no pledges to the Israelis that it would link the release of Isr