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The Israel Defense Forces detain Mohammad abu Salmiya, the director of the Al-Shifa Hospital, and several doctors working under him, after a convoy belonging to the World Health Organization was stopped by Israeli soldiers. Israel accuses the director and the doctors of having sheltered Hamas fighters in the hospital.
2023-11-23

Two militants including Islamic Jihad and Hamas commanders and two civilians are killed and five others are injured during a raid by Israeli security forces in the Jenin refugee camp, in the West Bank.
2023-03-16

Hamas claims Israeli forces fatally shoot a 25-year-old man at the border fence near Bureij.
2018-04-3

Israeli Air Force planes hit two Hamas targets in Gaza in retaliation for rocket fire from the Palestinian territory.
2015-12-13

The Foreign Press Association issues a statement condemning Hamas for intimidation and censorship and not allowing an objective reporting of events.
2014-08-12

The Red Cross officially declares the fighting in Ukraine as a civil war. The formal classification means participants in the fighting between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in the east could eventually be prosecuted for war crimes in international courts.
2014-07-23

The bodies of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers, including one with dual American citizenship, are found partially buried near Hebron on the West Bank. Shin Bet determined they were murdered shortly after being kidnapped, and is searching for two Hamas kidnappers and accomplices.
2014-06-30

Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the State of Palestine, announces a unity cabinet containing members of both Fatah and Hamas.
2014-06-2

The United Nations demands that Syria allow in humanitarian aid after a Red Cross relief mission was denied access to Homs yesterday.
2012-03-3

Thousands of Palestinians cross the Rafah Border Crossing into the Gaza Strip following its opening by Egypt, but Egypt prevents hundreds of activists from entering and Hamas continues to refuse Red Cross visits for captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.
2010-06-12