Dozens of homes and farms south of Gaza City were inundated by flood waters as heavy rains drenched parts of the Middle East, Palestinian officials and witnesses said on Tuesday. The rising waters destroyed or damaged more than 100 homes in Wadi Gaza, a low-lying farming area south of Gaza City mostly inhabited by Bedouins, as the Islamist Hamas-run ...

Israeli air strikes hit seven targets in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip early Friday, killing three men and wounding another, Palestinian medics said. The casualties occurred near Gaza's border with Egypt when Israeli jets bombed tunnels which Palestinians use to smuggle goods into the besieged coastal strip, medics and Hamas security officials said. The Israeli military confirmed it conducted ...