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☆ Israel urges calm amid plans for further protest at judicial overhaul
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The plans have hit the economy by drawing warnings from credit agencies, triggering foreign investor flight. A Palestinian group aligned with the Islamist movement Hamas said it launched a rocket from the occupied West Bank into Israel in retaliation. Israel has previously acknowledged that were preliminary efforts under way by West Bank fighters to develop a rocket arsenal. Video posted on social media showed scores of other Jews visiting the Jerusalem compound under Israeli police guard. In the latest violence, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager when clashes erupted during an Israeli army raid in Palestinian city of Qalqiliya, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Tisha B'av, Isaac Herzog, Netanyahu, Shikma Bressler, Itamar Ben, Gvir, Ben, Nidal al, Dan Williams, Tom Perry, Robert Birsel, Nick Macfie Organizations: West Bank JERUSALEM, Facebook, West Bank, Police, Palestinian Health Ministry, Thomson Locations: Israel, Jerusalem, West, al, United States, Palestinian, Qalqiliya, Gaza

GAZA, July 24 (Reuters) - Archaeologists working on a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery discovered in Gaza last year have found at least 125 tombs, most with skeletons still largely intact, and two rare lead sarcophaguses, the Palestinian Ministry of Antiquities said. In the past, local archaeologists reburied findings for lack of funding but French organisations have helped excavate this site, discovered in February last year by a construction crew working on an Egyptian-funded housing project. "It is the first time in Palestine we have discovered a cemetery that has 125 tombs, and it is the first time in Gaza we have discovered two sarcophaguses made of lead," Fadel Al-A’utul, an expert at the French School of Biblical and Archeological Research, told Reuters at the site. Gaza has been under an Israel-Egyptian economic blockade since 2007 when the Islamist militant group Hamas, which opposes peace with Israel, took control. U.S.-brokered peace talks, aimed at establishing a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, collapsed in 2014 and show no sign of revival.

Persons: Fadel, A'utul, Jamal Abu Reida, Nidal al, Philippa Fletcher Organizations: Palestinian Ministry of Antiquities, French School of, Archeological Research, Reuters, Urgance, Gaza's Antiquities Ministry, Hamas, West, Thomson Locations: GAZA, Gaza, Palestine, Israel, West Bank, East Jerusalem

☆ Israeli troops kill Palestinian teen in West Bank clash -Palestinian officials
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB Mourners carry the body of a Palestinian who was killed during clashes with the Israeli army in Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, July 20,2023. REUTERS/Mohamad TorokmanRAMALLAH, West Bank, July 21 (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during clashes with stone throwers in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Palestinian officials said. Israel's border police said that during the clash in the village of Umm Safa near the city of Ramallah, "masked suspects threw stones and rocks endangering the lives of troops." Protests are held Umm Safa every week against Israeli settlements, often escalating into clashes with Israeli forces. Violence in the West Bank, among territories where the Palestinians seek to establish a state, has worsened over the past 15 months with stepped up Israeli raids, Palestinian street attacks and assaults by Jewish settlers on Palestinian villages.

Persons: Mohamad Torokman, Umm, Ali Sawafta, Nidal, Ari Rabinovitch, William Maclean Organizations: West Bank, REUTERS, Palestinian Health Ministry, Thomson Locations: Nablus, Mohamad Torokman RAMALLAH, West, Israel's, Umm Safa, Ramallah

[1/3] Palestinians walk in the street amid a heatwave and lengthy power cuts at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, July 17, 2023. More than 2.3 million people live in a narrow strip of land squeezed between Egypt and Israel, suffering power cuts for up to 12 hours a day. Gaza residents are calling for the local generator to produce more power by operating the plant at full capacity. Thousands packed the beaches, escaping the heat and power cuts at home. Some homes and businesses use generators or solar panels, to overcome the lengthy power cuts.

Persons: Mohammed Salem, Abdel, Hamid Abdel, Israel, Jalal Ismail, Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah, Yasmin Fojo, Um Khattab, Nidal, Alexandra Hudson Organizations: REUTERS, Hamas, Reuters, Gaza Energy Authority, Palestinian Authority, Alexandra Hudson Our, Thomson Locations: Gaza City, Mohammed Salem GAZA, Gaza, Egypt, Israel

[1/4] Palestinian Madyan Helles works in his workshop as he turns wasted car tires into environment-friendly materials, in Gaza July 11, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaGAZA, July 17 (Reuters) - Madyan Helles collects waste car tyres and recycles them into materials that are used as a base layer for artificial grass at sports facilities as well as in agriculture in the impoverished Gaza Strip. "My project preserves the environment and helps reduce environment risks," Helles said, who hopes to expand his business beyond him working on his own. "It must get bigger and absorb all wasted tyres in Gaza Strip so that we can get rid of them safely and properly," he told Reuters. "We used to import rubber granules in the past for high prices, today they are available in Gaza.

Persons: Abu, Helles, Ubayda Nassar, Nassar, Nidal Almughrabi, Alison Williams Organizations: REUTERS, Gaza, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Abu Mustafa GAZA, Gaza City

GAZA, July 16 (Reuters) - The Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers have been unable to pay salaries for 50,000 public sector workers, with officials in part blaming a delay in a monthly payroll grant from Qatar, a crucial aid donor to the impoverished Palestinian enclave. The salary crisis has sparked an unusual amount of criticism on social media in Gaza, including by some of Hamas' own employees. It currently pays $30 million per month in stipends for families, fuel for electricity, and to help pay public sector wages. Hamas officials say no salary aid has been received since just over half of a $5-million grant to support the May payroll. Public sector employees have not received full salaries since 2013.

Persons: Awni Al, Basha, Salama Marouf, Mahmoud Al, Andrew Mills, Nidal Almughrabi, Emelia Sithole Organizations: Qatar, Qatar’s International Media, Hamas, Public, Facebook, Thomson Locations: GAZA, Gaza, Qatar, Doha, Hamas Aqsa, Israel, Farra

☆ Palestinian President Abbas visits Jenin, trying to calm tension
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Raneen Sawafta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

JENIN, West Bank, July 12 (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday, days after three of his senior officials were forced to flee a funeral by crowds furious at their response to an Israeli assault days earlier. The anger of the crowd at the funeral for fighters killed in the two-day long Israeli operation highlighted the deep unpopularity of the Palestinian Authority and the widening rifts among different Palestinian factions. The 87-year-old Abbas, who has rebuffed pressure to step down, visited the cemetery where the funeral was held, at the entrance to the Jenin refugee camp. "The heroic Jenin camp stood against the aggression sacrificed its casualties and offered all it has for the sake of the homeland," Abbas said. [1/4]Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visits Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, July 12, 2023.

Persons: Mahmoud Abbas, Abbas, Fatah, Mohamad Torokman, Nidal al, James Mackenzie, Angus MacSwan Organizations: West Bank, Palestinian Authority, REUTERS, Palestinian, Fatah, Thomson Locations: JENIN, West, Jenin, Israel, Nablus, Oslo, Gaza

[1/8] Palestinian refugee students attend an activity as part of "Fun Weeks" summer camps run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in a school in Beach refugee camp in Gaza City, July 11, 2023. The Palestine children, including those with disabilities, will over four weeks participate in a series of activities including greening, recycling, sports, drawing, handicrafts, and language learning, the agency said. UNRWA runs 284 schools in Gaza, serving at least 290,000 students. The activity creates around 3,000 short-term jobs for Gaza youth, UNRWA said. Established in 1949 following the first Arab-Israeli war, the agency provides public services including schools, primary healthcare, and humanitarian aid in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.

Persons: Mohammed Salem, Thomas White, Joanna El, Halabi, Nidal Almughrabi, Devika Organizations: United Nations Relief, Works Agency, REUTERS, United Nations, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA Affairs, Reuters, Gaza, UNRWA, West Bank, Thomson Locations: Beach, Gaza City, Mohammed Salem GAZA, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, East, Egypt, Jabalia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon

☆ Israeli forces kill two Palestinians who carried out attack, army says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] People check damage in a house where two Palestinians were killed during an Israeli raid in Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank July 7,2023. REUTERS/Raneen SawaftaNABLUS, West Bank, July 7 (Reuters) - Israeli security forces on Friday killed two Palestinians who carried out a shooting attack against police this week, Israel's military said. Israeli forces raided the occupied West Bank town of Nablus, the military said, and "both terrorists were killed following an exchange of fire." The Israeli military said it had targeted infrastructure and weapons depots of Palestinian militant factions in Jenin in the operation. Israel says all the Palestinians killed were combatants.

Persons: WAFA, Raneen Sawafta, Ali Sawafta, Nidal, Ari Rabinovitch, Toby Chopra, Ros Russell Organizations: REUTERS, West Bank, West, Popular Front, Liberation, Palestine Liberation Organization, Palestinian, United Nations Relief, Works Agency, UNRWA, Thomson Locations: Nablus, Raneen, NABLUS, West, West Bank, Palestine, Ramallah, Israeli, Israel, Jenin, Gaza

☆ Palestinians turn anger on own leadership after Israel's Jenin raid
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Ali Sawafta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The rockets were shot down and Israel's air force struck targets in Gaza belonging to the ruling Hamas, causing no casualties. [1/9]Palestinian girls sit outside a damaged house following an Israeli military operation, in Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank July 5, 2023. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Tuesday the Jenin operation was unlikely to be a "one-off" and said it would be "the beginning of regular incursions and continuous control of the territory". Israel has been fiercely critical of the Palestinian Authority and its 87-year-old President Mahmoud Abbas, accusing them of failing to rein in the militant groups. PA officials in turn say Israel has made it impossible to exert any control by keeping them deliberately weak and undermining their authority.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, Abbas, Nidal al, James Mackenzie, Conor Humprhries Organizations: Palestinian, West Bank, Palestinian Authority, Islamic, Reuters, Hamas, Bank, REUTERS, Al, Quds Brigades, Thomson Locations: JENIN, West, Jenin, Israeli, Islamic Jihad, Israel, Gaza, Palestinian, Tel Aviv, Quds, Oslo, Nablus

[1/4] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a briefing near the Salem military post between Israel and the West Bank, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. Marshoud was named by the militant Islamic Jihad group as one of four of its members killed on Monday during Israel's assault in Jenin refugee camp. At least 11 Palestinians have been killed during Israel's operation that began on Monday, one of its biggest in the West Bank in years. The Israeli military has said it had confirmation of nine Palestinians killed by its forces, saying all were combatants. U.N. aid agencies voiced alarm at the scale of the Israeli operation.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Shir, Marshoud, Marshoud's, Hussam, Israel, Jamal Hamdan, Jihad Hassan, Hassan, Ali Sawafta, Nidal, Mustafa Abu Ganeyeh, James Mackenzie, Tom Perry, Gareth Jones Organizations: West Bank, Islamic, Palestinian, Residents, Thomson Locations: Israel, JENIN, West, Jenin, Iran, Gaza, Palestinian, Jerusalem

GAZA, July 3 (Reuters) - Walaa Hammad has found a niche repairing mobile phones from her home, offering services to other women in the conservative Palestinian enclave of Gaza who fear allowing male technicians access to their photos and social media accounts. "There is privacy for women to come and repair their mobile phones. Even men can come and ask me to fix the phones of their wives and sisters because they fear for their privacy and the photos," said Hammad. Egypt also restricts movement in and out of Gaza on its border. Those restrictions have devastated Gaza's economy and left many of its women, like Hammad, struggling to find work after graduating from college.

Persons: Walaa Hammad, Hammad, Wafaa Abu, Nidal, Gareth Jones Organizations: Creativity, Gaza, Thomson Locations: GAZA, Gaza, Israel, Egypt

☆ Israeli forces strike West Bank city, Palestinians say one killed
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

JERUSALEM, July 3 (Reuters) - Israel's military said it hit a command centre for militant fighters in the West Bank city of Jenin in a strike early on Monday that local residents said killed at least one person and involved a missile fired from the air. The Israeli military said it struck a "joint operations centre" which served as a command centre for fighters from the Jenin Brigades, an armed unit comprised of fighters from different militant group. Last month, Israel killed three militant gunmen near Jenin, in the first drone strike in the West Bank since 2006 as violence across the region has surged. The Palestinian health ministry said one person had been killed and another wounded in the attack. Israeli forces have conducted regular raids in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, where Palestinian militant groups including Hamas and Islamic Jihad have hundreds of armed fighters.

Persons: Israel, Ali Sawafta, Nidal, James Mackenzie, Nick Zieminski Organizations: West Bank, Islamic, Thomson Locations: Jenin, West, Lincoln

☆ Israeli settlers attack Palestinian village after deadly Hamas strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Ali Sawafta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/5] An aerial view shows burned vehicles after an attack by Israeli settlers near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 21, 2023. "There was heavy gunfire but we couldn't distinguish whether it came from settlers or the soldiers because of the darkness." Attacks were also reported in other West Bank towns and villages. Netanyahu's government is set on expanding settlements in the West Bank and includes members who rule out a Palestinian state. Hamas, which advocates armed resistance against Israel, has been steadily expanding its operations in the West Bank.

Persons: Ammar Awad, Yaqoub Oweis, Lubban, Eli, Mahmoud Dawoud, Gharbeya, Itamar Ben, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Israel Katz, Nidal al, James Mackenzie, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: West Bank, REUTERS, Bank, Rampage, Al, Palestinian, Monday . Local, Israeli National Security, Energy, Cabinet, Army Radio, West, Hamas, Seven, Thomson Locations: Ramallah, RAMALLAH, West, Palestinian, West Bank, Huwara, Hamas, Gaza, Jenin, Monday, Al, Israel, East Jerusalem, Jerusalem

☆ Palestinian gunmen kill four Israelis in West Bank
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Ammar Awad | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

REUTERS/Ammar AwadNEAR ELI SETTLEMENT, West Bank, June 20 (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen shot dead four Israelis near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday in an attack the militant Hamas group said was a response to a raid by Israeli forces in the flashpoint city of Jenin. The Israeli military said it was boosting forces in the West Bank after the attack. Police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for a full-scale military operation in the West Bank and urged Jewish settlers in the area to carry a weapon. U.S.-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, aimed at establishing a state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, collapsed in 2014 and show no sign of revival. Israel's government is set on expanding settlements in the West Bank and includes members who rule out a Palestinian state.

Persons: Ammar Awad, Eli, Morel Nicker, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich, Itamar Ben, Gvir, Huwara, Israel Tom Nides, Maayan Lubell, Rami Amichay, Nidal, Ali Sawafta, James Mackenzie, Alex Richardson, Angus MacSwan, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: West Bank, REUTERS, Hamas, Bezalel Smotrich ., West, Thomson Locations: Eli, ELI, West, Jenin, Gaza, Palestinian, Israel, U.S, West Bank, East Jerusalem

☆ Israeli troops, backed by helicopter, kill 3 Palestinians in clash
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Ali Sawafta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

JENIN, West Bank, June 19 (Reuters) - Israeli commandos killed three Palestinians, including a teenager, during an unusually fierce clash in the occupied West Bank on Monday in which a troop transport was disabled by a bomb and a military helicopter carried out a rare strike. Video obtained by Reuters showed an explosion enveloping an armoured troop transport as shots ring out. Other clips showed a military helicopter launching a missile and releasing flares. [1/2] Smoke is seen rising into the air during an Israeli raid in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank June 19, 2023. REUTERS/Raneen SawaftaA military spokesperson said an Apache helicopter fired on an open area in order to drive back gunmen as casualties were extricated from the troop transport.

Persons: peacemaking, Jihad, Dan Williams, Nidal, Gareth Jones, Ed Osmond Organizations: West Bank, Seven, U.S, Reuters, REUTERS, Apache, Palestinian, Thomson Locations: JENIN, West, Jenin, Israel

☆ Israel set to approve thousands of building permits in West Bank
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

JERUSALEM, June 18 (Reuters) - Israel's nationalist-religious government on Sunday tabled plans to approve thousands of building permits in the occupied West Bank, despite U.S. pressure to halt settlement expansion that Washington sees as an obstacle to peace with Palestinians. "We will continue to develop the settlement of and strengthen the Israeli hold on the territory," said Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who also holds a defence portfolio that gives him a leading role in West Bank administration. Palestinians seek to establish an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem as their capital. Since entering office in January, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition has approved the promotion of more than 7,000 new housing units, most deep in the West Bank. In response to Sunday's Israeli decision, the Palestinian Authority - which exercises limited self-rule in parts of the West Bank - said it would boycott a meeting of the Joint Economic Committee with Israel scheduled for Monday.

Persons: Bezalel Smotrich, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Shlomo Ne'eman, Emily Rose, Nidal, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: West Bank, Washington, Planning, West, United, Palestinian Authority, Israel, Hamas, Gush, Gush Etzion Regional Council, Yesha, Thomson Locations: West Bank, Israel, Gaza, East Jerusalem, United States, Palestinian, Judea, Samaria, Jordan, Gush Etzion, Jerusalem

[1/4] A Palestinian rides a cart drawn by a horse wearing a diaper, to keep the Gaza streets clean, in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip June 5, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaGAZA, June 13 (Reuters) - On the crowded streets of Gaza, horse-drawn carts continue to carry goods and agricultural produce, providing a vital service but creating a sanitary problem that one group wants to solve with diaper-style bags to keep the roads clear of manure. As well as the smell and flies they attracts, piles of manure are an unsightly blight, said municipal sanitary worker Saher Khattab, who drives a horse-drawn cart to collect garbage. "We are keen to preserve a clean environment, keep our streets clean, and maintain a civilized situation," said Anwar Al-Ghawash, one of a group of activists promoting the initiative in Deir Al-Balah town in the southern Gaza Strip. Reporting by Nidal AlmughrabiOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Abu, Saher Khattab, Anwar Al, Nidal Organizations: REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Palestinian, Gaza, Deir Al, Abu Mustafa GAZA, Balah

[1/5] A Palestinian girl walks past a graffiti drawn by Palestinian artists on a house destroyed by Israel, in recent Israeli-Gaza fighting, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip June 8, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaGAZA, June 12 (Reuters) - Graffiti artists in Gaza have painted murals on the remains of houses destroyed in an Israeli missile strike during cross-border fighting in May. Israel killed six senior Islamic Jihad commanders and said it destroyed a number of military installations. In Israel, two people - an Israeli woman and a Palestinian labourer - were killed by Palestinian rocket fire in Israel. "One missile destroyed a neighbourhood and destroyed the lives of ten families who used to live here."

Persons: Abu, Hussein Abu Sadeq, Mohammad Thuraya, Nidal Almughrabi, William Maclean Organizations: REUTERS, Hamas, Jihad, Islamic, Thomson Locations: Israel, Gaza, Deir Al, Abu Mustafa GAZA, Deir, Egypt, Iranian, Israeli, Palestinian

[1/5] A lion is seen inside an enclosure at NAMA Zoo in Gaza June 1, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemGAZA, June 6 (Reuters) - Large paintings of a bear, an elephant and a giraffe decorate the outer walls of NAMA Zoo in Gaza City, but none of these wild creatures is represented live among those caged inside. There were once six zoos in Gaza, a narrow coastal enclave which has been closed off behind security walls since 2007. The original animals at the zoo were smuggled through tunnels from Egypt over a decade ago. Gaza lacks the medical facilities to treat animals like lions and tigers.

Persons: Mohammed Salem, Mahmoud Al, Sultan, Fouad Saleh, Nidal Almughrabi, Bernadette Baum Organizations: REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Mohammed Salem GAZA, NAMA Zoo, Gaza City, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, South Africa

☆ Israel's 'Flag March' in Jerusalem rattles Palestinians
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Rami Amichay | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/13] Israelis sing and dance with flags by Damascus gate to Jerusalem's Old city as they mark Jerusalem Day, in Jerusalem May 18, 2023. The parade is the main celebration on Jerusalem Day, when Israel marks its capture of Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war. Many Palestinian shopkeers shuttered their businesses in the Old City, where march organisers hung Israeli flags along the narrow alleyways. Earlier on Thursday, hundreds of Jewish pilgrims, including members of parliament, toured the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City. Hamas has cast itself as a defender of Jerusalem's Palestinians and Muslim holy sites in recent years.

☆ Israel's national 'Flag March' in Jerusalem rattles Palestinians
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The annual parade, which marks Israel's capture of Jerusalem in the 1967 war, has increasingly become a show of force for Jewish nationalists, and for Palestinians a blatant provocation meant to undermine their ties to the city. With another round of fighting between Israel and Gaza militants ending only last weekend, appetite for escalation appeared low. An Israeli police raid in the flashpoint site in April triggered rocket fire from groups in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Casting itself in recent years as a defender of Jerusalem's Palestinians and Muslim holy sites, Hamas urged Palestinians to bolster their presence at the compound ahead of Thursday and confront any Israeli encroachment. The Palestinians want the eastern section, annexed by Israel in a move not recognised abroad, as capital of their future state.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alluded to Israel's calculations at work in dealing with Hamas in Gaza. "The gap between Hamas and Islamic Jihad is rooted in the fact that Hamas has a political programme and governing authority, whereas the Jihad has neither," he said. However, Israeli officials say Islamic Jihad would not be able to fire rockets without approval from Hamas. An Islamic Jihad official offered a similar line. "That's why they (Hamas) focus their attacks in the West Bank," the regional diplomat said.

The caller was an Israeli officer who ordered them to evacuate the house five minutes before they bombed it. The cousin, Hussam Nabhan, 45, tried to stall with the officer, telling him the house included disabled people, but it was all in vain, he said. "The house was the girls' shelter, they had got a disabled toilet, wheelchairs, a bed to sleep. "How am I going to carry her after the wheeler was gone, also the (healthy) mattresses were gone," she added. Its borders are sealed off by neighbouring Israel and Egypt, citing security concerns with Hamas, which runs the territory.

In areas of southern Israel around Gaza, schools were still closed on Sunday and many of the thousands of residents who had been evacuated had yet to return. "It's no simple matter to come back from such a situation," Gadi Yarkoni, mayor for several Israeli towns on the Gaza border, told radio station 103 FM. Palestinian health officials said 33 people, including women and children as well as Islamic Jihad fighters, were killed in Gaza. Israeli forces had "successfully concluded five days of fighting the Islamic Jihad terrorist group," he said in the televised remarks, without mentioning a ceasefire agreement. "We dealt a serious blow to Islamic Jihad (but) we have not solved the Gaza problem.

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