Israeli tanks dig in at Gaza frontier as Palestinian toll tops 300

Israeli troops uncovered more than a dozen cross-border tunnels and battled Gaza militants on the second day of an open-ended ground operation Saturday, as the Palestinian death toll climbed past 330 and diplomats scrambled to revive cease-fire efforts.

Israel launched a ground campaign Thursday to target and eliminate a series of tunnels around the Gaza strip that Hamas militants have been using to smuggle goods and materials and to carry out attacks. Militants have 

Israel heavily bombarded Gaza from the air, land and sea the night after sending in ground forces, and its prime minister held out the possibility of significantly expanding the operation to weaken the territory's Hamas rulers. The Palestinian death

JERUSALEM — The rockets are smuggled via ship and tunnel from Iran, Libya, Sudan and Syria and, increasingly, manufactured from water pipes and household items in what a senior Israeli intelligence officer called Gaza's “high-tech” sector — about 70 

CNN has removed one of its reporters covering the Israel-Hamas conflict after she tweeted that Israelis cheering missile strikes in Gaza and whom she said threatened her were “scum,” the Huffington Post reported.