Palestine

13 May 2023; MEMO: The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said Friday that Palestinian factions targeted an Israeli military gathering with "heavy-calibre shells", Anadolu News Agency reports.

"The Palestinian Resistance declares its responsibility for targeting gatherings of enemy vehicles and soldiers with heavy calibre shells, and confirms direct hits," the Al-Quds Brigades said in a statement.

There were no further details regarding the location or timing of the attacks.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The most violent confrontation in months between Israel and Palestinian militants continued for a third straight day on Friday, as Israeli warplanes struck targets in the Gaza Strip and militants fired rockets toward Jerusalem and southern Israel.

There were no immediate reports of casualties on either side Friday, as foreign mediators pressed ahead with efforts to reach a cease-fire. The past few days of fighting have killed 31 Palestinians in Gaza and a 70-year-old man in central Israel.

GAZA, May 11 (Xinhua) -- A senior official of a militant group in Gaza was killed early on Thursday when the Israeli army's unmanned suicide drones attacked his apartment in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.

Palestinian security officials confirmed that Ali Hassan Ghali, a military council member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), was killed after two Israeli suicide drones attacked his apartment in a building north of the city.

10 May 2023; MEMO: Palestinian factions fired barrages of rockets into Israel on Wednesday, amid tension following Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, Anadolu News Agency reports.

In a statement, the factions said that the rocket fire was in response to the "assassination crime" of three Islamic Jihad leaders.

"The Resistance is ready to all options," the Palestinian factions added.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip killed a fourth militant commander on Thursday, raising the death toll from the latest burst of fighting to 25. Israel braced for more rocket fire amid reports of faltering Egyptian attempts to broker a cease-fire.

It has been the worst bout of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza in months, and among the dead were also women and children. The conflagration comes at a time of soaring tensions and spiking violence over the past year in the occupied West Bank.

11 May 2023; MEMO: Four more Palestinians were killed and seven others were wounded as Israel's air strikes against the besieged Gaza Strip continued for the third consecutive night, Palestinian medical sources confirmed on Thursday morning.

The latest attack was on a six-storey residential building in the city of Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

GAZA, May 10 (NNN-WAFA) – The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip yesterday, have killed 15 Palestinians and wounded 22 others, said the Gaza-based Ministry of Health, run by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

The ministry said in a press statement that, among those killed included four children and five women, while seven of the 22 injured were in serious condition.

10 May 2023; MEMO: The Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza said on Tuesday that 156 homes were damaged by this week's Israeli air strikes against the besieged territory.

"The Israeli aggression on Gaza left 27 residential units completely damaged and 129 partially damaged," GMO head Salameh Maarouf told journalists.

10 May 2023; MEMO: Israeli soldiers, on Tuesday, shot an Israeli female settler near Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, believing she was a Palestinian.

The army said, in a statement posted on Twitter, that "a Palestinian woman was neutralised at a military checkpoint south of Hebron while she was trying to carry out an attack," without causing any Israeli casualties.

However, Israeli media outlets said the shot woman was a mentally ill Jewish woman.

9 May 2023; MEMO: Among the 10 civilian victims of the Israeli air strikes against resistance group leaders in Gaza on Tuesday was a dentist known for offering free treatment to poor families, who lived in the same residential block as Islamic Jihad leader, Tareq Izzeldeen, Reuters reports.