Two hundred opponents of Israel’s planned Gaza Strip evacuation stole into the coastal strip overnight in defiance of a military ban, even as security forces blocked thousands of protesters from marching into Gaza to bolster settler resistance to the withdrawal.

The first group of Jewish settlers announced today they plan to move out of their Gaza Strip homes next month, several weeks before the army is officially set to withdraw from the coastal area.

Palestinian militants fired three mortar shells and a home-made rocket toward Jewish settlements in the northern Gaza Strip today.

ISRAEL and the Palestinians have agreed on the logistics of the upcoming election to replace Yasser Arafat, a senior Palestinian official said yesterday.

Israel has reached agreement with the Palestinians on the logistics of their upcoming election, a senior Palestinian official said today, but denied reports the two sides worked out a broader deal to end their decades-old conflict.

TENS of thousands of Israelis were forming a human chain yesterday in a mass show of strength against government plans to pull all Jewish settlers and troops out of the Gaza Strip.

Tens of thousands of Israelis linked hands today in a human chain in a protest against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan to dismantle the Jewish settlements and withdraw the army from the Gaza Strip.

Three Palestinian children have been killed on the third day of an Israeli army raid on the Gaza town of Beit Lahiya.

Palestinians fired a barrage of home-made rockets and mortar shells at Gaza Strip settlements and towns inside Israel in retaliation for the killing of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi.

Palestinians fired a barrage of home-made rockets and mortar shells at Gaza Strip settlements and towns inside Israel in retaliation for the killing of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi.

The bodies of two 14-year-old Israeli boys believed to have been stoned to death by Palestinians were found today in a cave near Bethlehem.