A number of IDF soldiers who took part in Israel's recent Gaza offensive say they were urged by commanders to shoot first and worry later about sorting out civilians from combatants.

EL-ARISH, Egypt (AFP) - Two Egyptian police have been charged with taking money from a Gazan family with the false promise of allowing them into Egypt from the isolated enclave, a security source told AFP on Tuesday.

GAZA CITY (AFP) - Hamas suspects that Israeli intelligence services are supplying its Gaza Strip stronghold with chewing gum that boosts the sex drive in order to "corrupt the young," an official said on Tuesday.

Life in the West Bank - in sharp contrast to beaten down, Hamas-ruled Gaza - has taken on a semblance of normalcy.

8 in a oeWar and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gazaa s Offshore Gas Fields.a On June 30, Israeli Naval gunships surrounded the a oeSpirit of Humanity,a a Free Gaza movement boat traveling in international waters 60 miles off the coast of Israel, and arrested 21 activists, from 11 countries, including former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia ...

Britain has revoked several licenses granted to British companies to sell weapons parts to Israel because of concerns over their use in Israel's recent war in the Gaza Strip, British and Israeli officials said Monday.

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Britain has revoked five Israeli arms export licences over the Gaza war, blocking the supply of replacement parts to navy gunships used in the offensive, officials and reports said on Monday.

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Britain has revoked five Israeli arms export licences over the Gaza war, blocking the supply of replacement parts to navy gunships used in the offensive, officials and reports said on Monday.

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Britain has imposed a partial arms embargo on Israel over the Gaza war, refusing to supply replacement parts for navy gunships used in the offensive, a newspaper reported.

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Britain has imposed a partial arms embargo on Israel over the Gaza war, refusing to supply replacement parts for navy gunships used in the offensive, a newspaper reported.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip: Anwar, 15, cannott read or write, but says he's good at tunnel work.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AFP) - Anwar, 15, can't read or write, but says he's good at tunnel work.

Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa expected that the 15th Non-Aligned Movement summit, which is scheduled for July 15-16 at Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, will support the Arab position and all the efforts to establish peace in the Middle East.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AFP) - Anwar, 15, can't read or write, but says he's good at tunnel work.

Two militants preparing to fire mortars into Israel were detained Saturday by interior security officials of the Islamic Hamas movement, reported a group to which the militants claim membership.

ON A Friday she hung up her bag after a quiet shift as an Edinburgh postie. The following Tuesday afternoon she was paraded on TV following a gunpoint capture by one of the most notorious security services in the Middle East.

By one calculus of Middle Eastern politics, Israel could say that its month-long offensive against Hamas and heightened economic blockade of Gaza have succeeded.

Rockets no longer fly into Israel from the Gaza Strip. And Gaza's Islamist rulers saw their support base drop below 20 percent as a direct result of a war that exacted a high price: 1,400 dead, 50,000 homes destroyed or damaged, and 1.5 million of Israel's neighbors more embittered than ever.

The question now: Will Gaza's battering lay the groundwork for reincorporating the territory and its leaders into a revived peace process? Or will it prolong Gaza's isolation?

GAZA CITY (AFP) - Fourteen-year-old Ghasan Matar won't talk about the explosion that cost him his legs and killed his brother.

Islamic Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, stepped up a crackdown against members and supporters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party there, a source said on Thursday.

Palestinian workers will need one year to clear a half million tons of concrete rubble from Gaza Strip districts bombed and bulldozed by Israeli forces during their winter offensive, the United Nations said on Thursday.