Jewish settlers, Israeli troops and Palestinian villagers clashed with guns, rocks and tear gas, leaving five Palestinians hospitalized Saturday, hospital officials said.

Egypt has opened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip for the second time in two months to allow medical aid and Palestinians to enter the coastal territory.

As top diplomats pledged billions of dollars for war-ravaged Gaza on Monday, ordinary people here _ from merchants to housewives _ said they’d rather have open borders than handouts.

A 99-year-old Palestinian man says he was attacked and bitten by a dog accompanying Israeli soldiers during an arrest raid.

Egyptian police arrested 40 suspected smugglers and seized goods in a new crackdown on smuggling into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, an Egyptian security official said Thursday.

The military says Israeli troops on an arrest raid in the West Bank have killed a top Islamic Jihad militant.

More than two dozen trucks loaded with food, aid and goods intended for the Gaza Strip were stranded on the Egyptian side of the border Thursday, leaving truckers with little to do but sip tea and exude frustration.

Hundreds of workers toiled in southern Gaza Thursday to repair dozens of tunnels dug under tents or fake greenhouses while smugglers brought in food and fuel just days after Israel ended a barrage of bombs and missiles aimed at cutting off the supply rout

Packed into a station wagon, under dozens of boxes of blankets, clothing and food, was the casket bearing the body of Hanan Abu Traz’s 20-year-old daughter, Sabreen.

The group of boys gather defiantly to play soccer each day, war-weary after three weeks of near-constant shelling and dearly in need of some childhood release.