Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman was due to make a public statement on Wednesday and a source close to the far-right politician said he may announce his resignation over the government's policy towards the Gaza Strip. "He is thinking of quitting," the source told Reuters, after Lieberman's office said he had
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Gaza-Israel frontier calms as enemies warily cease fire
Palestinian militants and Israel held their fire late on Tuesday following an Egyptian mediation effort, bringing a relative calm to the Gaza frontier after the fiercest rocket salvoes and air strikes since the 2014 war. The enemies made clear the pause was an armed stand-off rather than a long-term accommodation. Fighting died
Gaza factions agree to cease fire if Israel halts attack – Palestinian official
Palestinian militant groups in Gaza said on Tuesday they would halt cross-border attacks immediately if Israel did the same after the most serious exchanges of aerial fire since a seven-week war in 2014. An Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity, responded by putting the onus on the Palestinians to stop
Israel-Gaza border ignites after botched incursion; four dead
Palestinian militants on Monday carried out their most intensive shelling of Israel since the 2014 Gaza war in retaliation for a botched cross-border commando raid, drawing Israeli air strikes against Hamas' television station and other targets. The flare-up, in which three Palestinian gunmen and a civilian in Israel were killed, threatened
Israel-Gaza border ignites in most serious fighting since 2014 war
Palestinian militants kept up their most intense rocket fire on Israel since the 2014 Gaza war on Tuesday, drawing Israeli air strikes against Hamas's television station and other targets. The flare-up, in which five Palestinians, four of them militants, and a civilian in Israel were killed, threatened to derail efforts by