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Israel strikes tunnels, Hamas outpost in southern Gaza

Israel strikes tunnels, Hamas outpost in southern Gaza Gaza City  - Israeli F16 warplanes rocketed tunnels and a Hamas outpost in two separate airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip Tuesday evening, witnesses said.

At least two rockets struck the border area between the southern Gaza town of Rafah and Egypt, they said, adding they heard two successive loud explosions in the area and the sound of F16s flying overheard.

One missile also hit a a post of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, the radical Islamic movement ruling Gaza. No injuries were reported in either of the strikes.

Palestinian minister says Gaza needs foreign doctors

Palestinian minister says Gaza needs foreign doctors Geneva  - Hospitals in the Gaza Strip are in need of specialized foreign doctors to help cope with some of the medical cases that resulted from the recent Israeli offensive in the enclave, the Palestinian health minister said Monday.

"We need teams of war surgeons and others, like neurosurgeons, plastic surgeries, reconstruction surgeries," said Fathi Abu Moghli, the minister in the West Bank government.

Two wounded as Israel rockets car in Gaza Strip

Two wounded as Israel rockets car in Gaza Strip Gaza - An Israeli aircraft rocketed a car driving in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah Monday morning, injuring two people, witnesses and medical officials said.

The strike comes after Israeli aircraft launched overnight attacks on the Gaza Strip, primarily along the border separating the salient from the Sinai peninsula in an attempt to target tunnels used for smuggling weapons.

An evacuated police station in the central Strip, belonging to the Hamas movement, was also hit twice, with severe damage reported.

Hamas hails Turkey's stand at Davos

Palestinians demand full implementation of agreements with Israel Gaza City - The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas Friday hailed Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyib Erdogan's stand at the World Economic Forum in Davos, describing it as "brave."

Militant rocket fire brings Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza

Militant rocket fire brings Israeli airstrike in southern GazaGaza City  - Israeli aircraft bombed two targets in southern Gaza, shortly after Palestinian militants fired rockets toward Israel for the first time since the start of a ceasefire on January 18, witnesses said early Thursday.

Israeli F-16s struck around midnight Wednesday near Gaza's Rafah border with Egypt. No injuries were reported.

One bomb struck the border area, where hundreds of tunnels are used for smuggling supplies and arms into Gaza, with a second airstrike against a Palestinian metal workshop.

First rocket hits Israel since withdrawal from Gaza

First rocket hits Israel since withdrawal from Gaza Tel Aviv  - Palestinian militants fired a rocket at southern Israel Wednesday night, the first since Israeli troops withdrew from the strip last week, the military said.

A military spokesman in Tel Aviv said the rocket was launched from the central Gaza Strip, near the refugee camp of el-Bureij, and landed at the kibbutz (agricultural commune) of Re'im, in the southern Israeli Eshkol region.

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