And Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported that Israeli officials pulled out of new talks in Egypt on Friday after Islamic Jihad unleashed rockets toward Jerusalem. Two attempts at a cease-fire earlier in the week faltered. Israel's military reservists: How they transformed a political crisis into a security one Cease-fire efforts: What happens now? It has led attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians. This includes many parts of modern Israel. Islamic Jihad is a hardline organization, backed by Iran, that wants to establish an Islamic state on all the lands historically claimed by Palestinians. But Hamas, which seized control of Gaza in 2007, has sat out this round of fighting. Islamic Jihad and Hamas are often united in their fight against Israel. The other being Hamas, a de facto civilian government in Gaza that has an estimated army of some 30,000. Islamic Jihad is one of two groups in the Gaza Strip. On their nation's 75th anniversary: Israelis ask: Is this still a democracy? Islamic Jihad: What does it want? One Israeli, a 70-year-old man, was killed in the central Israeli city of Rehovot when a rocket fired from Gaza hit a residential building. The Israeli counterassault over the last few days has killed at least 31 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip including seven children and four women, according to the U.N. Violence has for months been surging in the Palestinian-claimed, Israel-occupied West Bank as Israel's most right-wing government in history has conducted raids on suspected militants who have targeted Israelis.įollowing the hunger-strike death of one of its West Bank members, Khader Adnan, while in Israeli custody, Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group that rejects Israel's right to exist, launched a barrage of rocket fire at Israel from the Gaza Strip, a coastal enclave controlled by Hamas, a separate militant group. Israeli airstrikes, Palestinian rockets: What is happening in Gaza? But here's some context to help you understand what's been happening lately. One of the world's most enduring conflict is never far from escalating. Israeli warplanes struck targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday and Palestinian militants fired rockets toward Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and southern Israel. Israeli-Palestinian violence flared this week as part of what appears to be the worst burst of fighting in months. Watch Video: Israel intercepts rockets fired from Gaza Strip
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