A female suicide bomber attacked a crowd of Shi’ite pilgrims today as thousands flocked to a holy shrine to commemorate the Battle of Karbala, killing at least 40 and injuring another 72. The local hospital was overwhelmed by the casualties. But while this is a fairly major attack in the new “optimistic” Iraq, the most [...]
The Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip moved into their second week, and with at least 520 Gazans already killed and thousands wounded, the humanitarian situation is increasingly dire. Or completely under control, if one is inclined to believe Israeli officials. Colonel Moshe Levi insists that the “appearance of a humanitarian crisis” is all Hamas’ [...]
The first full day of fighting in the Gaza Strip continues tonight, as thousands of Israeli troops continue to move deeper into the tiny, populous enclave. Though the soldiers have yet to enter any major urban areas, they have encountered resistance and firefights have been reported throughout the area. As Israeli artillery fire continues, the [...]
For the second time in four days, the United States has quashed an attempted United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate end to the war in the Gaza Strip. After the latest rejection, US envoy Alejandro Wolff declared that there was “no point” in the statement, because Hamas (who has previously suggested openness [...]
Moving into the ninth day of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, the death toll has surpassed 500 according to medics. Yesterday’s invasion sparked a new round a fighting, and claims of killed combatants on both sides. The first casualties in the invasion however came when an Israeli tank attacked a house full of [...]
Thousands of Israeli troops poured across the border into the Gaza Strip today, escalating a war that began a week ago today when Israeli plane began a series of air strikes that killed over 450 Gazans and wounded thousands of others. Independent reports of the situation on the ground were difficult to come by as [...]
The Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip commenced earlier today, and while with no journalists on the ground details on the attacks are spotty at best, Defense Minister Ehud Barak held a special press conference to clear up some things about the invasion, particularly that it will not be the quick in-and-out invasion some had [...]
Updated 1/3/09 4:30 PM EST After an initial salvo of artillery fire and increased air strikes earlier this morning, the Israeli military has begun its long-promised invasion of the Gaza Strip. The initial strikes included the destruction of another mosque in the strip, in which at least 10 worshippers were killed and scores were wounded. [...]
Reports last night were that the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip was to commence sometime this morning. It didn’t seem an outlandish prediction, with the military announcing that it had completed days of preparations for the massive casualties expected in the raids, and the weather finally clearing up to allow the invaders a more [...]
A massive rally in the northern Israeli Arab town of Sakhnin drew nearly 100,000 protesters against the continuing war on the Gaza Strip, making it the largest protest by Israel’s Arab minority in over a decade. Thousands of Israeli police were also deployed, though no clashes have been reported. The protesters condemned the Israeli attack, [...]
