At least 25 Palestinians were killed on Wednesday as President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah faction and Hamas battled for control of Gaza and Israel launched a deadly round of air strikes against the Islamists.
GAZA CITY (AP) -- An Israeli helicopter launched missiles at a Hamas command center in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing at least four people, after Hamas fired rocket barrages into Israel in an apparent attempt to draw Israel into increasingly violent Palestinian infighting.
Israel bombed a Hamas training camp in Gaza on Wednesday, killing two people, after warning it would respond to continuing rocket fire from the territory where factional fighting raged for a fourth day.
House panel scald overseers of America's Arab-language channel for airing speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah calling for violence against Israel.
Israel launched an air raid on an uninhabited area of Gaza on Wednesday after warning that it would respond "in a measured fashion" to continuing rocket fire from the lawless territory.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expressed increased interest Tuesday in discussing a Saudi-authored initiative for reaching a comprehensive Middle East peace, inviting the leaders of Arab countries to come to Israel to talk more seriously about the proposal and alternatively offering his own willingness to meet them in any of theirs.
Hamas militants fired rockets into Israel Wednesday even as they battled their rivals from Fatah in the streets of the Gaza Strip, confining terrified Palestinian residents to their homes and plunging the coastal territory further into chaos.
Israel struck Gaza twice Wednesday, after Hamas fired rockets into Israel in an apparent attempt to draw it into increasingly violent Palestinian infighting. At least 41 have died in four days.
GAZA - At least 23 Palestinians were killed today as President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction and Hamas battled for control of Gaza and Israel launched a deadly round of air strikes against the dominant Islamists.
An Israeli helicopter fired missiles at a Hamas outpost, killing at least four people, after Hamas fired rockets into Israel in an apparent attempt to draw it into increasingly violent Palestinian infighting. At least 41 have died in four days.