Gaza, Hamas and Israel
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Israel's military gave CBS News a rare look deep inside Gaza, where many questions still hang over the ruins of war and the future of 2 million Palestinians.
GAZA/JERUSALEM May 14 (Reuters) - Life on both sides of the Gaza Strip border began returning to normal on Sunday after an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire halted five days of fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad, which killed 34 Palestinians and an Israeli.
The soldiers manning the outpost are overseeing a delicate aspect of the now three-week-old ceasefire: the “yellow line,” a boundary of yellow blocks and flags laid out by the Israel Defense Forces that now mark the border between them and Hamas-controlled Gaza.
Israel’s military says the ceasefire is back on in Gaza after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight across the Palestinian territory.
The Gaza Strip must be transferred to the control of legitimate Palestinian authorities, and Israeli plans for temporary control of the enclave are unacceptable, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Russia's RIA news agency in remarks published on Tuesday.
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WHO to vaccinate 44,000 children in the Gaza Strip
The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to launch an extensive vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip on Sunday. Some 44,000 children who could not be reached during the two years of the Israeli war against the militant Palestinian organization Hamas are to be vaccinated within 10 days against measles,
The military said that the terrorists were killed while attempting to cross the Yellow Line and approach troops stationed in the area. IDF soldiers killed two terrorists in the central Gaza Strip who were attempting to cross the Yellow Line and approach troops stationed in the area,
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US looks to build ‘new Gaza’ on half of Strip under IDF control, but faces pushback
Plan to build half a dozen residential regions on eastern side of Yellow Line for up to 1 million people receives chilly reception from some potential donor countries in the Gulf The post US looks to build ‘new Gaza’ on half of Strip under IDF control,
We have an insight into what's happening inside the Gaza Strip. It is a controlled access with the Israel military, but nontheless it's a rare chance to take a critical first hand look at the so-called "yellow line" buffer zone that Palestinians have to navigate around, in the ruins of Gaza. Noga Tarnapolsky made the journey for FRANCE 24.