Gaza City

The Israeli air force carried out four strikes on militant targets in the Gaza Strip early May 27, Palestinian eyewitnesses said, hours after a cross-border rocket attack on the Jewish state.

Filmmakers in the Gaza Strip held a film festival amid the ruins of a neighborhood that was devastated by the worst fighting of last summer's war with Israel, The Huffington Post has reported.

In a damning report released March 26, Amnesty International said Palestinian rocket fire during the 2014 summer war in Gaza had killed more civilians inside the Gaza Strip than inside Israel.
      
Such deadly attacks on civilians were against international law and constituted "a war crime," it said.
      

The Palestinians have reached agreement with Israel on a "permanent" ceasefire for the Gaza Strip, a senior official told AFP on Aug. 26.
      
"The contacts that have been going on have agreed a permanent ceasefire, a (deal to) end the blockade and a guarantee that Gaza's demands and needs will be met," the official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.        

Marking the first day of the new school year in Gaza, dozens of children lined up in the courtyard early on Sunday morning to sing the Palestinian national anthem.
      
But this year, class did not begin.
      

An Israeli air strike killed two Palestinians in Gaza Sunday as militants kept up rocket fire, a day after an Egyptian call for an open-ended ceasefire to enable new truce talks.
      
The pace of Israeli raids was slower than Saturday when at least 60 strikes pounded Gaza, killing 10 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and bringing down a 12-storey apartment block.

Hamas-led gunmen in Gaza executed 18 Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel on Aug. 22, a day after Israel tracked down and killed three top Hamas commanders, the highest-ranking militants to be killed in the six-week war.

Three senior Hamas commanders and four children were among at least 15 Palestinians killed in Gaza Thursday as Israel stepped up air strikes on day 45 of the bloody conflict.

Eighteen Palestinians have been killed and 120 wounded by Israeli strikes across Gaza since the collapse of a temporary truce, medics said on Aug. 20.        

The death toll in the war-torn Gaza Strip rose above 2,000 on Aug. 18, the health ministry said as more people injured in over a month of fighting with the Israelis succumbed to their wounds.
      
According to a ministry statement, a total of 2,016 people were killed and another 10,196 wounded.