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GAZA CITY: An Israeli airstrike on a smuggling tunnel between the Gaza Strip and Egypt killed three Palestinians inside and wounded seven on Tuesday in the deadliest Israeli attack on the volatile border area in months, a Palestinian Health Ministry official said.The Israeli military said the air force struck in retaliation for a mortar attack from Gaza Monday into southern Israel that lightly wounded an Israeli soldier. The Israeli government has pledged a military response to every attack.Fighting between Israel and Gaza militants has largely subsided since a fierce Israeli offensive in January, but Israel and Egypt have maintained a tight economic blockade of the coastal area to maintain pressure on the militant Hamas government.In Gaza, the men killed and wounded were all smugglers caught in a tunnel during the pre-dawn Israeli strike, said Gaza Health Ministry official Dr. Moaiya Hassanain.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 JERUSALEM: A Palestinian was wounded by Israeli gunfire late on Tuesday after he breached a security fence separating the Gaza Strip and the Jewish state, a military spokesman said. "According to latest information, a Palestinian was injured by fire from our soldiers after he crossed the security fence near the Nahal Oz fuel terminal," said the spokesman.Soldiers "fired warning shots which were ignored, whereafter they aimed and wounded" the Palestinian. "The man, who was apparently lightly wounded in a leg, was moved to an Israeli hospital," he added. Early on Tuesday, three Palestinian brothers were killed and nine other people wounded when Israel bombed smuggling tunnels between the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and Egypt, medics said. The Israeli military said it launched the raid in response to mortar fire from the Palestinian territory late on Monday that wounded one soldier.

Saturday, August 15, 2009 GAZA CITY: Islamic radicals from an al-Qaida-inspired group battled Hamas security in the Gaza Strip Friday in shootouts that killed at least 13 people.The fighting began when Hamas forces surrounded a mosque in the southern Gaza town of Rafah where about 100 members of Jund Ansar Allah, or the Soldiers of the Companions of God, were holed up, including some armed with suicide belts and rifles, according to residents of the area.The confrontation was triggered when the leader of the group defied Gaza's Hamas rulers by declaring in a Friday prayer sermon that the territory was an Islamic emirate.Jund Ansar Allah and a number of other small, shadowy radical groups seek to enforce an even stricter version of Islamic law in Gaza and have criticized Hamas for not doing so. They are also upset that the Hamas regime has honored a cease-fire with Israel for the past seven months.Hamas has said it seeks to set an example and does not impose its views on others. It...