The Latest Breaking News from Islamic Jihad

Israel killed the head of Islamic Jihad's rocket force and his deputy, pressing an operation that has cost 30 lives in Gaza including women and children, while Palestinian cross-border rocket salvoes inflicted a first fatality in Israel on Thursday.

On Tuesday a seperate Israel attack killed three other commanders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip have killed a fourth militant commander, raising the death toll from the latest burst of fighting to 25

Palestinian militants fire more than 400 rockets into Israel as Israel presses ahead with a series of deadly air strikes on the Gaza strip.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned civilian deaths in Gaza as "unacceptable" and appealed for them to "stop immediately" and for all parties to exercise maximum restraint, Deputy U.N. spokesperson Farhan Haq said on Wednesday.

The hostilities amount to the heaviest fighting between the two sides in months.

A young Gaza man who saw his fiancee for the last time only minutes before she was killed in an Israeli air strike on Tuesday said they spent their final moments discussing how they would pose together for their engagement photo.

Israel's air force has hit Islamic Jihad targets in Gaza for a second day and Palestinian militants have begun launching rockets.

Tit-for-tat rocket fire follows claims that Egyptian officials brokered pause in conflict between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants

Palestinian militants fired hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Wednesday, while Israel pressed ahead with a series of airstrikes that have killed 21 Palestinians, including three senior militants and at least 10 civilians.

The Israeli military launched a strike against members of the Islamic Jihad armed group at a rocket launch site in Gaza, the army said on Wednesday, as witnesses reported explosions in the Khan Younis area in the southern part of the enclave.