RONI KEIDAR’S house is close to the Gaza Strip — so close that when the border heats up, she hears the attacks from both sides: The thud of Israeli missiles hammering targets inside the Hamas-controlled area and the whoosh of Palestinian rockets being launched into Israel.

IN my first year at Queen’s in Belfast, no subject exercised the monthly meetings of the students’ union more than the name of the hall where our meetings were held.

A six-year-old boy kidnapped from a Las Vegas home by alleged drug dealers has been found alive north-east of the Strip, police said today.

An explosion hit a vehicle of the Multinational Force and Observers today, wounding two peacekeepers near Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip.

Israeli troops killed five Palestinian militants today, including two Hamas gunmen who slipped across the fenced boundary with Gaza for a rare cross-border attack.

An Israeli helicopter gunship fired a missile that blew apart a car carrying members of the Islamic Jihad in Gaza City today, killing a bodyguard of the militantgroup’s leader and a 12-year-old boy, witnesses and doctors said.