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Mahmoud Abbas made the statement in Eygpt

Abbas threatens to part ways with Hamas

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has threatened to break off a unity agreement with Hamas.

Israeli airstrike kills family of five in Gaza

An Israeli air strike hit a house in central Gaza before dawn killing five family members, including two women and two children.

News • 23 Aug 14

A picture taken from the southern Israeli border with Gaza shows smoke rising from the remains of a mortar fired by Palestinian militants into Israel

Israel says boy killed by Gaza mortar bomb

A mortar bomb fired from Gaza killed a four-year-old Israeli child in a border collective farm, Israeli security sources said.

News • 22 Aug 14

A picture taken from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza Border on shows rockets being fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza into Israel

Armed wing of Hamas withdraws from Cairo talks

The armed wing of Hamas has declared an end to its participation in Egyptian-brokered efforts for a durable ceasefire with Israel, as violence escalated after the collapse of a 24-hour truce.

News • 20 Aug 14

Benjamin Netanyahu made the comments at the start of a cabinet meeting

Israel prioritises security needs at Gaza talks

Israel will not agree to any long-term ceasefire in Gaza at indirect talks in Cairo unless its security needs are clearly met, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said.

News • 18 Aug 14

Children look at some of the belonging they salvaged from their destroyed homes in Jabalia, northern Gaza

Israel reports no progress at Gaza talks

Talks to end a month-long war between Israel and Islamist militants in Gaza have made no progress so far, according to an Israeli official.

News • 12 Aug 14

Rocket fire from Gaza resumed early this morning

Israel strikes Gaza after rocket fire resumes

Israel has launched airstrikes across Gaza in response to Palestinian rockets after Egyptian-mediated talks failed to extend a 72-hour truce in a month-old war.

News • 13 Aug 14

A Palestinian boy walks on the rubble of his destroyed home in Gaza City

Gaza conflict in numbers

As talks continue on extending the truce in Gaza, here are some of the figures from the conflict so far.

Special Reports • 07 Aug 14

A boy surveys the damage from the Israeli military campaign in Gaza City

Hamas urges no truce extension unless demands met

Hamas has urged Palestinian negotiators not to extend the Gaza truce unless their demands are met as talks continue in the Egyptian capital Cairo.

News • 08 Aug 14

Palestinians salvage their belongings from their destroyed home in Rafah

Israel offers to extend current Gaza truce

A 72-hour Gaza truce has held through its second day and Israel has said it is ready to extend the deal beyond Friday.

News • 07 Aug 14

Israel is reported to have destroyed numerous Hamas tunnels

Israelis and Palestinians in Egypt for talks

Israeli and Palestinian delegations are in Egypt for talks aimed at securing a permanent ceasefire after a three-day truce took effect this morning.

News • 06 Aug 14

Smoke rises after an Israeli strike in the east of Gaza City

Gaza death toll rises as Israeli strikes continue

More than 100 Palestinians were killed today after Israel intensified its bombardment of Gaza, bringing the number of Palestinians killed to over 1,200.

News • 29 Jul 14

Shaymaa Masri, a four-year-old Palestinian girl, was injured in the shelling of Beit Hanun

Israel confirms it fired into UN shelter in Gaza

The Israeli army has confirmed it fired a mortar round into a Gaza UN shelter where 15 people died on Thursday, but denied killing anyone at the site.

News • 27 Jul 14

Mourners at the funerals of the three young Israelis today

Funerals of three young Israelis take place

The funerals have taken place of three young Israelis, who were abducted and killed in the occupied West Bank.

News • 01 Jul 14

Israeli soldiers during a night raid on the West Bank village of Arura

Palestinian teen killed in West Bank arrest raids

Israeli soldiers shot dead a teenage Palestinian boy in overnight clashes in the occupied West Bank as they pressed a hunt for three missing Israeli teenagers, medical sources said.

News • 20 Jun 14

Israel blames Hamas for the disappearance of the three teenagers in the West Bank

Israel intensifies teen hunt with 30 new arrests

Israeli troops arrested 30 Palestinians in the West Bank overnight as they ramped up a massive search for three teenagers believed kidnapped by Hamas, the Israeli army said today.

News • 19 Jun 14

Palestinians hold a portrait of Mahmoud Abbas as they take part in demonstrations in support of a new attempt to reconcile with Hamas

Pact with Hamas 'kills peace', says Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Palestinian moves to form a unity government with Hamas were "a giant leap backward" for the peace process.

News • 25 Apr 14

All activities of Hamas have been banned in Egypt after court ruling

Egyptian court bans Hamas activities in Egypt

An Egyptian court has banned all activities of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Egypt.

News • 04 Mar 14

Isra Al-Modallal's job is to convey the views of the Hamas government

Hamas appoints UK-educated woman as spokesperson

Hamas, long shunned by the West and increasingly isolated in the Middle East, has appointed its first spokeswoman, a 23-year-old who used to live in Britain and speaks with a Yorkshire accent.

News • 11 Nov 13

The deputy prime minister of Gaza, Ziad al-Zaza, said the head-shaving "was a very limited, isolated behavior of the police and is not going to continue."

Crackdown in Gaza on long hair & low cut trousers

Police in Hamas-ruled Gaza have started grabbing young men with long or gel-styled spiky hair off the streets.

News • 07 Apr 13

Khaled Meshaal as he delivers a speech to Hamas supporters during today’s rally in Gaza City

Hamas leader vows to never recognise Israel

Tens of thousands of people are attending a rally in the Gaza Strip to mark the 25th anniversary of the Palestinian Islamist group, Hamas.

News • 08 Dec 12

A Palestinian family returns home after the ceasefire was announced

UN urges Israel and Hamas to uphold ceasefire

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas held firm with scenes of joy among the ruins in Gaza over what Gazan militants hailed as a victory, and both sides saying their fingers were still on the trigger.

News • 22 Nov 12

Israeli troops stand by an armoured vehicle that has been attacked by Palestinian protesters

Tension increases in Gaza despite truce talks

Egypt has said a deal to end fighting in Gaza could be close, despite few signs that either side was prepared to back down.

News • 19 Nov 12

Ajab al-Shorafa, a cameraman for Press TV network, is examined in a Gazan hospital following the strike on the TV station

11 killed as Israel targets Hamas commander

An Israeli missile has killed at least 11 people in Gaza, medical officials said, in an apparent attack on a top militant that brought a three-storey home crashing down.

News • 18 Nov 12

Palestinian firefighters extinguish fire from the car of Ahmaed Jaabari

Israel Parliament authorises military mobilisation

The Israeli Parliament has given preliminary authorisation for the mobilisation of military reserves if required to press an air assault against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

News • 14 Nov 12