On the eve of the start of the Cairo talks on a proposed ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting that the Israeli government's three top officials, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, and Defense Minister Ehud Barak...
According to respected London-based Arabic language newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi, the United States deployed troops to the Egypt-Gaza border weeks ago, at Israel's behest, and the Army Corps of Engineers is currently helping the Israeli military unearth the tunnels used...
Tomorrow's Cairo ceasefire talks may well be the best chance at peace the Gaza Strip has seen since Israel began its attacks 12 days ago. But as this afternoon's brief humanitarian lull gave way to not just renewed, but escalated attacks, the prospects of those talks...
Talks to settle on the Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip are set to begin tomorrow in Cairo, and Hamas seems quite optimistic. "In the light of all the diplomatic efforts ongoing right now, I am convinced we will succeed in finding a formula...
UN Relief and Works Agency spokesman Chris Gunness reported this evening that the Israeli army is privately briefing diplomats on the fact that its previous claims about their attack on a UN-run girls' school in the Gaza Strip, which caused over 100 civilian...
False hope of a quick end to the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip which has now killed nearly 700 Palestinians came early this morning, when the office of French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared that both the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority had...
Yesterday, Israeli forces fired three shells at a United Nations school in Jabalya refugee camp, which it knew was being used as shelter for displaced civilian families. The attack killed at least 46 and wounded 55 others, but Israel said the killings were "according...
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...
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,...
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...
