On 26 July, Wafa news agency in Arabic reports extensively on Hamas raids on Fatah institutions and a wide-scale arrest campaign of Fatah members in Gaza Strip, conducted against the background of the 25 July explosion in which five Hamas members and a child were killed.

By The Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli leaders decided Wednesday against mounting a major attack on militants in the Gaza Strip, saying they would give Egypt more time to broker a truce with the territory's Hamas rulers.

Tank shelling kills Palestinian girl in southern Gaza GAZA, June 11 (Xinhua) -- A nine-year-old Palestinian girl was killed early Wednesday in an Israeli shelling in southern Gaza Strip, hospital sources and witnesses said.

By ISABEL KERSHNER By Isabel Kershner The New York Times JERUSALEM In a sudden surge of violence, an Israeli civilian was killed Wednesday in a rocket attack by Hamas militants from Gaza, the first such fatality in nine months, and at least eight Palestinians, militants and civilians, were killed in Israeli airstrikes before and after the rocket attack.

By Isabel Kershner Israel appeared to face a renewed and heightened threat from suicide bombings Tuesday after the military wing of the Palestinian faction Hamas officially claimed responsibility for a lethal attack Monday at a shopping center in the southern Israeli town of Dimona.