Israel says its forces have surrounded Gaza City, home to a third of the enclave's 2.3 million people, and are poised to attack it soon in their campaign to annihilate the Hamas Islamists who ...

GAZA, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Several explosions were heard on Thursday night in Gaza City, in what Hamas and Palestinian radio stations said was the result of an Israeli air strike.

The militant group Hamas, which rules the other Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip, is believed to have a base in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin. A foreign diplomatic delegation visits the ...