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Byline: STEVEN ERLANGER and JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military continued its substantial military attacks around Rafah in southern Gaza on Sunday, with Palestinian officials reporting that a strike [...]

JABALIYA, Gaza Strip -- An examination of an Israeli barrage that put a line of at least 10 shells through a United Nations school sheltering displaced Palestinians here last week [...]

JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military said early Sunday morning that an officer thought to have been captured by Palestinian militants during a deadly clash Friday morning, which shattered a planned [...]

JERUSALEM -- Palestinian militants sprang from the ground and confronted Israeli soldiers Friday morning, as they have repeatedly in recent days. This time, Israeli officials said, one exploded a suicide [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- After years in which Israel's prevailing approach to the Gaza Strip was a simple 'quiet for quiet' demand, there is growing momentum around a new [...]

Byline: BEN HUBBARD and JODI RUDOREN JABALIYA, Gaza Strip -- The strikes came in rapid succession. Around 5 a.m. Wednesday at a United Nations school at the Jabaliya refugee camp, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJERUSALEM -- After years in which Israel's prevailing approach to the Gaza Strip was a simple ''quiet for quiet'' demand, there is growing momentum around a new formula, ''reconstruction [...]

JABALIYA, Gaza Strip -- The strikes came in rapid succession. Around 5 a.m. on Wednesday at a United Nations school at the Jabaliya refugee camp, where 3,300 Palestinians had taken [...]

Byline: BEN HUBBARD and JODI RUDOREN Gaza City -- Israeli airstrikes early Tuesday flattened the four-story home of Hamas's top political leader in the Gaza Strip and destroyed offices of [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN NEAR THE ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER -- The curved concrete top of the tunnel grazes the dark-brown buzz cut of Lt. Col. Oshik Azulai, putting it 5 feet and [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN and BEN HUBBARD JERUSALEM -- Hamas, the militant Palestinian faction that dominates the Gaza Strip, has more to boast about in its current battle against Israel than [...]

NEAR THE ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER -- The curved concrete top of the tunnel grazes the dark-brown buzz cut of Lt. Col. Oshik Azulai, putting it 5 feet and 7 inches above [...]

JERUSALEM -- Hamas, the militant Palestinian faction that dominates the Gaza Strip, has more to boast about in its current 20-day battle against Israel than ever before. Forty-three Israeli soldiers [...]

JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is stuck between mounting international outcry over civilian casualties from his assault on the Gaza Strip and intensifying calls at home to [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJERUSALEM -- Under intense diplomatic pressure, Israeli leaders decided late Saturday to extend a halt to hostilities in the Gaza Strip through midnight Sunday, but said their troops would [...]

Israel's top ministers decided Saturday night to extend a humanitarian halt to hostilities in the Gaza Strip for 24 hours, but said their troops would continue to operate to destroy [...]

Byline: BEN HUBBARD and JODI RUDOREN BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip -- Israeli forces killed a leader of Islamic Jihad's military wing and two of his sons early Friday with an [...]

Byline: ANNE BARNARD and JODI RUDOREN GAZA CITY -- Militant rockets can be seen launching from crowded neighborhoods, near apartment buildings, schools and hotels. Hamas fighters have fought Israeli soldiers [...]

BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip -- For more than a week, as the war engulfed their homes, families in this northern Gaza town packed up their belongings and children and headed [...]

Byline: ISABEL KERSHNER and JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- The grim tallies from Gaza and Israel pour in each morning, dockets of death, destruction and damage that begin to seem almost [...]

GAZA CITY -- Militant rockets can be seen launching from crowded neighborhoods, near apartment buildings, schools and hotels. Hamas fighters have set traps for Israeli soldiers in civilian homes and [...]

JERUSALEM -- Secretary of State John Kerry began a round of intensive meetings here on Wednesday as he sought to forge a cease-fire to stop the bitter fighting in the [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Israeli leaders have stressed two points in selling their Gaza Strip ground invasion internationally and at home: that they embraced all cease-fire proposals and that [...]

SDEROT, Israel -- The women and children trudge up the dusty hill between dusk and sunset, some with dogs. The men stay long after dark, some with binoculars. It is [...]

JERUSALEM -- It was around 1 a.m. when the decades-old Israeli armored personnel carrier rumbled into the Gaza Strip on Sunday and headed for Shejaiya, a Hamas stronghold on the [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- The Gaza-based Interior Ministry advises its supporters in a YouTube video that whenever talking about the dead, 'always add 'an innocent citizen.'' In Israel, the [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military said it thwarted two more infiltrations into its territory via tunnels from the Gaza Strip on Monday morning and killed 10 militants, [...]

JERUSALEM -- Israeli leaders have stressed two points in selling their Gaza Strip ground invasion internationally and at home: that they embraced all cease-fire proposals and that troops are targeting [...]

JERUSALEM -- The Gaza-based interior ministry advises its supporters in a YouTube video that whenever talking about the dead, ''always add 'an innocent citizen.' '' In Israel, the message is [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDGAZA CITY -- Eight Palestinian militants emerged from a tunnel some 300 yards inside Israel on Saturday morning, armed with automatic weapons and wearing Israeli military uniforms, the Israeli [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said on Friday that he had ordered the military to 'prepare for the possibility of widening, significantly,' the ground [...]

JERUSALEM -- As Israeli troops once again operated inside the Gaza Strip on Friday, the risks of a deep entanglement, a failure to curb the rocket fire, and the condemnation [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN TEL AVIV -- Even as Israel and Hamas agreed to suspend hostilities briefly on Thursday at the request of the United Nations, a senior Israeli military official [...]

JERUSALEM -- The rockets are smuggled via ship and tunnel from Iran, Libya, Sudan and Syria and, increasingly, manufactured from water pipes and household items in what a senior Israeli [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJERUSALEM -- Israeli tanks rolled into the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday night and naval gunboats pounded targets in the south as Israel began a ground invasion after 10 [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Israel's missile defense system intercepted four rockets over the Tel Aviv area on Wednesday morning, after the military bombed the homes of several political leaders [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- A senior Israeli military official said Wednesday that the likelihood of a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip was 'very high,' and that 'if you [...]

TEL AVIV -- Even as Israel and Hamas agreed to suspend hostilities briefly on Thursday at the request of the United Nations, a senior Israeli military official said that his [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Hostilities between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip continued on Tuesday, despite Israel's initial embrace of an Egyptian cease-fire proposal, which the Islamist [...]

JERUSALEM -- After a brief, one-sided cease-fire, Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip resumed on Tuesday the all-too-familiar rhythm of their latest battle: Over 100 rockets sent Israelis [...]

JERUSALEM -- Egypt's proposal for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas collapsed Tuesday only a few hours after the Israelis had accepted it, as Palestinian militants in Gaza launched a [...]

JERUSALEM -- So much here seems so broken right now: the peace process, the moral compass. The Palestinian reconciliation pact is in tatters. The Israeli police force is having a [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- So much here seems broken right now: the peace process, the moral compass, the Jerusalem light rail. Celebrated as an artery of coexistence in a [...]

Byline: ISABEL KERSHNER and JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Israel began an intensive aerial offensive in Gaza early Tuesday, bombing more than 50 targets, including at least four homes that the [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- The Israeli police have arrested a number of suspects in connection with the kidnapping and killing of a Palestinian youth from East Jerusalem who was [...]

JERUSALEM -- Muhammad Abu Khdeir, 16, spent his last hours before being abducted, beaten and most likely burned to death in one of his favorite places, doing some of his [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Militants in Gaza fired six rockets into southern Israel on Friday morning, continuing the recent spate of cross-border violence, as a funeral was held in [...]

JERUSALEM -- Before the body arrived, young Palestinian men, some with faces covered by kaffiyehs, filled the main street, chanting about blood and guns, sacrifice and struggle. Older men, most [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN and ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military mobilized troops around the Gaza Strip on Thursday after Palestinian militants there fired some 30 rockets at southern Israel [...]

SDEROT, Israel -- In this resilient town about a mile from Israel's volatile border with the Gaza Strip, the streets were empty on Thursday but the residents expressed defiance as [...]