Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip News

GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip arrested 120 men aligned with the rival Fatah faction on Saturday, after an explosion there killed five Hamas gunmen and a girl, Fatah officials said.

Friday's blast next to a car used by men from the armed wing of Gaza's ruling Islamist Hamas group killed the girl and three militants. Two others died of their wounds in hospital, Hamas and medical officials said.

The blast, the third of its kind in a day, marked one of the biggest flare-ups in internal Gaza violence since Hamas routed the forces of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's more secular Fatah faction to seize control of the territory a year ago.

Bulldozers are a common sight across Jerusalem, where a light-rail system and other projects are being built.

Head of Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin warned on Sunday of a possible terror attack by Hamas or Hizbullah in the near future along the Gaza Strip and Lebanon borders, respectively.

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Household poverty is worsening in Gaza, with over half of all households in the area living below the poverty line, according to a new report released today by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency .

Military police salute a convoy carrying the bodies of two kidnapped soldiers returned to Israel as part of a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah.

ARISH: Egyptian authorities discovered a weapons cache on Friday, a day after two tunnels used by smugglers were found in the Sinai desert close to the border with the Gaza Strip, a security official said.

A member of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement was shot and killed early Saturday in the northern Gaza Strip, sources said.

A Palestinian woman receives food aid from the World Food Programme in Gaza City.

Obama spoke at a press conference in Sderot, near the Gaza border. The city has been a frequent target of rocket attacks from Palestinian militants.

Colonel Shlomi Dahan, head of the IDF's southern regional brigade along the border with the Gaza Strip, was seriously injured in a car accident Wednesday morning at the Magen Junction in south Israel.

Deposed Hamas premier Ismail Haneya on Sunday urged British premier Gordon Brown to visit the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to be briefed on the consequences of Israeli blockade.

Hamas has taken advantage of the cease-fire with Israel to plant mines across widespread areas of the Gaza Strip, the head of Shin Bet , Yuval Diskin, said Tuesday.

Hamas says one of its members has been killed in a blast in the Gaza Strip. The militant group says the man was killed on a holy mission.

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These days, the tottering cease-fire between Israel and Hamas - brokered by Egypt just over one month ago - is getting some international attention.

The siege of Gaza has led to a sharp rise in the number of battered and sexually abused women and children in the Gaza Strip, say members of the Gaza Community Health Programme .

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Ma'an - A small shipping vessel will set sail for Gaza from Cyprus on 5 August expecting to be illegally detained as it enters Gazan waters.