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The announcement, 12 hours after Israel declared its own cease-fire, came after a flurry of rocket launches.

GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched rockets into southern Israel on Sunday in defiance of the unilateral ceasefire that Israel declared hours earlier.

Medecins Sans Frontieres cannot reach sick and injured civilians in Gaza because of Israel's bombing campaign and may have to pull out if the security situation worsens, officials from the aid group said on Friday.

Residents of a Gaza neighbourhood devastated by fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian guerrillas fled to other parts of the enclave on Friday, showing little faith in prospects for ceasefire talks ...

The U.S. has agreed to a range of measures, including providing international monitors, to help stem the smuggling of weapons into Gaza.

One of the top Hamas leaders in Gaza, interior minister Said Siyam, is killed in an air strike, Hamas and Israeli officials say.

The U.N. chief says he has expressed "strong protest and outrage" to Israel over the shelling of a United Nations compound in ...

Hamas officials say they have given Egyptian mediators their views on a Gaza cease-fire plan with Israel, and are waiting for Israel's response.

Militants in Lebanon sent rockets crashing into northern Israel on Wednesday, while Israeli aircraft pounded a Gaza cemetery, Hamas weapons positions and tunnels used for smuggling, witnesses and the military said Wednesday.