Gaza City  - Two Islamic Hamas movement militants were killed Wednesday night in an Israeli airstrike near the Jewish state's border with eastern Gaza City, witnesses and medics said.

Ramallah/Gaza  -  Marking the 60th anniversary of the loss of their villages in what is now

Gaza  - Israeli operations in the southern and northern Gaza Strip left four Palestinians dead Wednesday morning, medical officials and witnesses said.

Gaza  -  Hamas rejected Tuesday an Israeli demand that any truce deal with Gaza miltias include the release an Israeli soldier snatched in a June 2006 cross-border raid and held captive in the Gaza Strip ever since.

Linking the release of Gilad Shalit to a ceasfire, Hamas' Gaza Spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told reporters, was "an indirect Israeli escape from the Egyptian initiative to reach a truce."

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told visiting Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman on Monday that Shalit's release had to be part of the ceasefire Cairo is trying to mediate between Israel and the Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip.

Gaza  - Israel resumed fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip Monday, after suspending deliveries for around a week, Palestinian officials said.

Gaza  -  Egypt Saturday re-opened its border with the Gaza Strip for three days to allow Palestinians