Funeral for a Palestinian militants killed when Israeli naval forces attacked a flotilla in Gaza
Palestinian Fatah members carry the body of Palestinian militant Ibrahim Al-Wahidi, 25, during his funeral in Gaza City, June 7, 2010. Al-Wahidi was killed with three other comrades off the Gaza coast when Israeli naval forces fired at a Palestinian boat off the central Gaza Strip on June 7, killing four militants, medical officials,. UPI/Ismael Mohamad Victim
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Added February 02, 2012 with 13 photos
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited the Gaza Strip on Feb. 2, 2012. During his visit, protesters threw shoes, sand and small stones in demonstrations taking place outside of his convoy.
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Added January 18, 2012 with 11 photos
Two Palestinians were killed and three wounded in an airstrike in Breit Hanun in northern Gaza, one of whom's funeral, Mohammed Abu Awda, is seen in this gallery.
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Added January 17, 2012 with 8 photos
Hamas is currently attempting to rebuild a police system that collapsed when Hamas took the in Gaza Strip from the Fatah movement, Fatah Leaders meeting with Hamas leaders in Gaza City in a fresh move to push ahead with the rapprochement signed in April following years of bitter rivalry.
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Added November 09, 2011 with 5 photos
A site in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip was targeted by an overnight Israeli air strike. Israel said the attack was in response to an earlier Palestinian rocket attack. No injuries were reported.
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Added October 18, 2011 with 26 photos
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners were released in a swap for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit who has been held since 2006 in Gaza.
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TEHRAN, June 7 (UPI) -- Iran is prepared to deploy the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp naval forces to escort aid ships pressing an Israeli blockade on Gaza, authorities said.
JERUSALEM, June 7 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is balking at calls for an international investigation into the military's raid on a flotilla of aid ships.
JERUSALEM, June 7 (UPI) -- Israeli military forces fired on a boat carrying armed Palestinian militants, killing four, and fired a missile at Gaza, killing one, officials said Monday.
JERUSALEM, June 6 (UPI) -- Israel says it will deport the human rights activists aboard an Irish supply ship intercepted and detained attempting to run the blockade of Gaza.
LONDON, June 5 (UPI) -- Thousands of people joined a march Saturday in London to protest the killings aboard an aid convoy headed to Gaza.
GAZA, June 5 (UPI) -- Israel said its soldiers boarded another humanitarian aid ship bound for Gaza but used no force and no one was injured.
JERUSALEM, June 4 (UPI) -- Four Hamas Legislative Council members are being ordered out of Israel, Haaretz reported Friday.
JERUSALEM, June 4 (UPI) -- Another aid ship bound for Gaza should arrive soon despite what organizers say was Israel's sabotage of two vessels carrying journalists.
ANKARA, Turkey, June 4 (UPI) -- Turkey may cut relations with Israel over the Israeli storming of a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said.
TEHRAN, June 4 (UPI) -- The supreme leader of Iran described Israel as a "cancerous tumor" during Friday prayer celebrations honoring the late Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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