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Palestinian Allegedly Kidnapped by Israel Indicted as Hamas Member
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Israeli prosecutors today indicted a Palestinian engineer dubbed "the father of the rockets" on charges of helping the Islamist Hamas movement develop rockets in Gaza. In a mysterious case that has riveted Israel, Dirar Abu Sisi says he was kidnapped during a visit to Ukraine in February and moved secretly to Israel. He was indicted after being held in custody for 40 days. "Abu Sisi was engaged in the development of missiles to be launched by Hamas, including increasing their range and ability to pierce steel so as to penetrate armored vehicles and thus strike at soldiers," the ...
Israeli Airstrike Kills 2 Gaza Militants
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Israeli aircraft struck a Palestinian rocket squad in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing two militants as the military prepared to activate a new defense system to shoot down incoming rockets. Islamic Jihad, a militant group that frequently attacks Israel, confirmed two members were killed in the airstrike, while a third was critically wounded. The group did not specify whether they were in the process of launching rockets. Gaza militants, including Islamic Jihad and the territory's Hamas rulers, had said over the weekend that they would halt their fire if Israel did. It was not ...
Gaza Militants Rocket Israel, Drawing Reprisals
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Israeli aircraft struck the Gaza Strip on Thursday in response to militant rocket and mortar attacks, stoking concerns that a grave new round of hostilities will fill the vacuum left by an impasse in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Two years of relative calm have been unraveling in recent weeks with acts of violence against Israelis -- including a deadly bombing in Jerusalem on Wednesday that killed an unidentified female British tourist -- and Israeli reprisals against Gaza militants, which in one case killed four Palestinian civilians. Militants operating near the Israeli ...
Newest Exchange Between Gaza Militants, Israel Leaves 1 Dead
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Gaza militants barraged southern Israel with rockets and mortars Wednesday, drawing retaliatory Israeli airstrikes in an escalation of the gravest hostilities in the area since Israel went to war in the Palestinian territory two years ago. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed decisive action against militants and suggested that future operations would not be surgical. "No state would tolerate ongoing rocket fire on its cities and its citizens, and the state of Israel obviously will not tolerate it," Netanyahu told parliament. A text message from Gaza's Hamas rulers ...
Israeli Military Strike Kills 4, Injures 13 in Gaza Strip
By not in system - AOL NewsGAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- An Israeli military strike aimed at Palestinian militants missed its target Tuesday, killing three children and their uncle and wounding 13 other family members as they played soccer in their backyard in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said. Adel Hana, AP Palestinians carry a body to the morgue of Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday after an Israeli strike at a house east of Gaza City. The attack, launched in response to repeated rocket fire toward Israel, dramatically escalated a recent round of simmering violence with Palestinian militants and ...
Hamas Fires Dozens of Rockets; Israel Responds With Strikes
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Palestinian militants in Gaza fired more than 50 rockets into Israel on Saturday, the heaviest barrage in two years, Israeli officials said, while Hamas police beat up and confiscated equipment from reporters. A Hamas official was killed and four civilians were wounded when Israel hit back with tank fire and air strikes, said Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Adham Abu Salmia. Majed Hamdan, AP Palestinians help an injured Hamas security forces member after Israeli strikes, into Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Saturday, March 19, 2011. Israeli police say ...
Israel Unveils Seized Arms Cache From Cargo Ship
By not in system - AOL NewsASHDOD, Israel -- Rows of boxes, crates and containers filled with weapons stretched out on a dock Wednesday alongside a ship commandeered by Israel's navy, a display of what Israel said was a shipment of arms, some sophisticated, to Palestinian militants in Gaza. Israel intercepted the ship Tuesday in international waters in the Mediterranean, saying it was carrying weapons sent by Iran via Syria. Israel says the advanced anti-ship missiles found on board could alter the region's balance of power by impeding its ability to enforce a naval blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Next to ...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to Visit Gaza, Won't Run for Re-Election
By not in system - AOL NewsRAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian president offered on Wednesday to visit the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip for the first time in four years in a bid to help reunite the rival Palestinian governments. Hamas welcomed the offer. Mahmoud Abbas said he'd be prepared to make the trip within the coming week. Gaza's prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, invited Abbas on Tuesday to visit following parallel rallies in Gaza and the West Bank urging the rival Palestinian leaderships to reunite. Majdi Mohammed, AP Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday in a speech before senior members of ...
Lack of Materials Bogs Down Gaza Reconstruction
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsBUREJ REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza -- Fatma Wishah, 65, is just trying to make ends meet. One of her sons, Mahmoud, owns a small hardware store in this densely packed refugee camp. His main business is selling sacks of powdered cement that come into Gaza via illegal tunnels from Egypt. "Everything is so expensive and getting more so," she told AOL News. "Since the trouble in Egypt, cooking oil now costs almost $2 a quart (up from $1.50). Cigarettes, rice, tea, everything's going up." According to United Nations statistics, 70 percent of Gaza's population of 1.8 million lives below the poverty line, ...
Caterpillar Delays Bulldozer Shipments to Israel During Rachel Corrie Trial
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 26) -- Caterpillar, the Illinois-headquartered construction and farming equipment company, has said it will delay shipments of D9 bulldozers to Israel during the Rachel Corrie trial. Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist from Washington state, was killed by an Israeli Defense Forces soldier who ran over her while driving a D9 to demolish a Palestinian home in Gaza in 2003. Her family is suing Israel, and Corrie has become an iconic figure in pro-Palestinian circles. (One of the boats in the aid flotilla bound for Gaza that Israeli troops stormed this summer, killing nine, was named for ...
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