As Israel resumed their punishing offensive after a brief three-hour halt to allow Gaza’s struggling civilian populace to search for food, attention once again turned to the border between Egypt and the strip, where thousands of civilians were ordered to flee their homes by the Israeli military so they could be destroyed by air strikes. [...]
Israel made good on its promise to grant Gazans a brief window of calm to look for food amid the shattered ruins of their cities, stopping their attacks for a three hour period in the early afternoon before resuming their invasion in earnest. During the brief respite, 80 trucks of supplies were allowed in, and [...]
“Unfortunately, we cannot choose our neighbors.” Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accused Pakistani government agencies of being involved in November’s Mumbai terrorist attacks, and said the Pakistani government was using terrorism “as an instrument of state policy.” Prime Minister Singh seemed short on evidence to back up his claim, however, saying simply that “given the [...]
Condoleezza Rice, still Secretary of State for two more weeks, says the Bush Administration is “pleased by and wish to commend the statement of the president of Egypt” with regard to his government’s proposal for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Egyptian proposal, declared after a meeting between President [...]
In its first attempt at damage control over the international outcry caused when its military deliberately attacked a United Nations girls’ school full of displaced persons in a Gaza refugee camp, causing scores of civilian casualties, Israel has declared that its troops acted “according to procedures” in launching the salvo. In fact, the Israeli government [...]
In the deadliest single attack on Gaza civilians since the war began, Israel fired three mortar shells at the United Nations’ al-Fahoura school in the Jabalya refugee camp. The school was filled with civilians who had been forced from their homes by the Israeli invasion, and the attack killed at least 46. The United Nations [...]
With the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip increasingly dire, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he will allow the military to establish a “humanitarian corridor” in the Gaza Strip through which Gazans would be permitted periodic access to the food, clean water, and medication that has been denied them for much of the 11 [...]
The Palestinian death toll in the first 11 days of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip has soared to at least 635 and Israel continues to be unwilling to consider a truce or even acknowledge the growing humanitarian crisis among the strip’s 1.5 million residents. Since the ground invasion began, the Israeli tanks have [...]
Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip continue to net more and more casualties, 635 killed based on the most recent reports, and while the operation continues to fail at its stated goal of bringing rocket fire from Hamas to a halt Israeli officials remain in no mood to talk peace. “This is the time for [...]
Weeks of moving are finally completed, and the United States has opened its enormous new embassy in Baghdad. Taking over three and a half years to complete and costing in the realm of $700 million, the gargantuan compound is bigger than the Vatican, and the largest and most expensive embassy on the planet. A city [...]
