Two rockets fired from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip slammed into open fields in southern Israel overnight, without causing any casualties or damage, the Israeli military said on Saturday.
“The two Qassam-type devices were fired from the northern Gaza Strip and landed in the western Negev,” a military spokeswoman said, referring to the crude, homemade rockets used by Palestinian armed groups.
Gaza militants have fired more than 160 rockets and mortar rounds on Israel since the end of a massive Israeli offensive at the turn of the year aimed at halting the projectiles, …

Rockets fired from Lebanon struck Israel on Wednesday for the second time in a week while its Gaza offensive ground on, but there was no immediate sign the incident would escalate into wider violence.
There was no initial claim of responsibility for the attack, which triggered warning sirens in parts of northern Israel, and police said no one was hurt.
On Thursday, a similar salvo hit northern Israel but Lebanese and Israeli officials were quick to play down that incident, blaming not the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement, an ally of Gaza’s Hamas, but …

In July 2006, Israeli troops were two weeks into their unsuccessful campaign to rescue captured soldier Gilad Shalit when the Shia Muslim political and militant movement attacked from the north.
Its fighters launched dozens of Katyusha rockets and mortars at Israel and seized two more soldiers and killed eight others in cross-border raids.
It was seen as a dramatic gesture of solidarity with the Palestinians, but Israel’s response was far more dramatic and devastating to Lebanon.

Israel has rejected calls for an immediate temporary ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip after five consecutive days of aerial assault.
Yigal Palmor, a foreign ministry spokesman, said it was unrealistic to expect Israel to agree to a plan “with no mechanism to enforce the cessation of shooting and terror from Hamas”.
Israel’s security cabinet met on Wednesday to discuss the proposal made by France, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union.
“That proposal contained no guarantees of any kind that Hamas will stop the rockets and …

Israel has resumed air strikes after an unprecedented attack on the Gaza Strip killed at least 220 Palestinians and wounded 700 more.
Hamas said Israel bombed a mosque in Gaza City early on Sunday. Medics said two Palestinians were
killed in the attack.
Israel launched Operation Cast Lead on Saturday, destroying Hamas police stations and interior ministry buildings.
It was the deadliest day in Gaza for decades, with Israel continuing to attack sites into the night and threatening that the operation would widen if necessary.

Israel is continuing to hammer Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian health officials say over 225 people have been killed so far.
Israeli jets and helicopters hit security compounds and buildings in a wave of strikes which began just after midday local time and continued into the night.
Israel said more than 100 tonnes of bombs were dropped on dozens of targets in two intense waves of airstrikes.
There were many civilian casualties, as well as some top Hamas officials. Emergency services were overwhelmed and bodies were dumped in piles …

Suspected U.S. missile strikes killed eight people Monday in northwest Pakistan, where al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders are thought to be hiding, officials and witnesses said.
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The identities of those killed in the two attacks — the latest in a stepped-up U.S. campaign in the lawless region close to the Afghan border — were not known.

At least five people have been killed in a suspected US missile strike on a tribal district in north-west Pakistan, security officials have said.
The attack hit a suspected militant hide-out in North Waziristan, near the Afghanistan border, the officials said.
The strike comes two days after Taleban rebels in the area warned of reprisals if such attacks continued.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — A suspected U.S. missile strike in northwestern Pakistan killed nine people Friday, two Pakistani military sources said.
The strike happened about 12:10 p.m. in a village in North Waziristan, a region near the Afghan border that is rife with Islamic extremism, the sources said.
They spoke on the condition of anonymity.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers scrambled Wednesday to contain fallout from the worst fighting since a truce was declared five months ago, but a flare-up later in the day threatened to unravel it anew.
Gaza militants pounded southern Israel early Wednesday with dozens of rockets to avenge raids a day earlier that killed six militants, but the guns quickly fell silent with neither side appearing to have much to gain from renewed hostilities.