Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being pressured to launch a full-scale invasion that Israeli leaders have been scrupulously avoiding since 2005.
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Hamas Attack Has Haunting Echoes of the 1973 Yom Kippur War
For many Israelis, Hamas’s surprise attack mirrors one carried out 50 years ago, setting off a 19-day war that traumatized the nation.
Gaza has suffered under a 16-year blockade.
Held in place by Israel and Egypt, the blockade restricts imports to the region and prevents most people from leaving.
Gaza Militants Stage a Large-Scale Infiltration Into Israel
The ground assault immediately evoked the hostage-taking attacks that scarred Israel in 2006, but it was whether any Israelis might have been seized this time.
At Least 5 People Killed in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon
Rival factions have been fighting for three days, at times with heavy weaponry, in the densely populated Ein al-Hilweh camp in the coastal city of Sidon, south of Beirut.
Mahmoud Abbas Visits Jenin Refugee Camp After Israeli Raid
In the city of Jenin, partly dominated by militias, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, was seen as a relic and treated as a guest, not a ruler.
Israel Pulls Out of Jenin in West Bank
A major military incursion into the city of Jenin left at least 12 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier dead. A Palestinian attack on Tel Aviv wounded at least eight.
West Bank City of Jenin Has Long Ties to Palestinian Armed Struggle
In the northern reaches of the occupied West Bank, near the boundary with Israel, Jenin and its refugee camp have nurtured an ethos of defiance.
Rockets Launched From Gaza Amid Israeli Raid in West Bank and Tel Aviv Attack
The launches into Israel came after a military incursion into the Palestinian city of Jenin left at least 12 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier dead.
Palestinian Gunmen Kill 4 Israeli Civilians in Occupied West Bank
Two Hamas members carried out the attack outside Eli, a settlement in the northern West Bank, before being shot dead themselves.