Gaza - Israel opened crossing points into Gaza Strip on Thursday, after closing them for two days because of rocket attacks from the salient.

Tel Aviv - Israel will not open its crossing points into the Gaza Strip until Thursday afternoon, after closing them following the launch of a rocket into southern Israel from the salient late Tue

Gaza - Qatar has entered the mediation efforts between rival
Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas in a new bid to achieve
reconciliation between the two sides, Palestinian sources said on
Saturday.

"Qatar, as a state of strategic weight in the region, seeks to
sponsor the mediation between Hamas and Fatah to end the internal split
and reunite the two wings of Palestine," the sources said.

The split was made last year when Hamas ousted Fatah from Gaza and
seized control of the coastal Strip. Fatah was driven out to the West

Gaza - The Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to join a national committee designated to end politically-motivated arrests among Palestinian groups, an official said Saturday.

The formation of the committee was offered last week during a meeting between leaders of the Islamist Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip and officials from leftist Palestinian factions after a surge of politically-motivated detentions conducted by Hamas in Gaza and Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank.