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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Israeli forces moved into Gaza City today, sparking major gunbattles with Hamas militants. Tanks rolled through the streets, firing dozens of shells, and local hospitals are filling up with civilians. Witnesses on the ground say the Palestinian forces have attacked...
The French government is reportedly working with the Arab League on yet another draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, while also urging the Israeli government to allow humanitarian aid into the strip. According to America's ambassador...
10 days into its attacks on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government seems to have painted itself into a rather unpleasant corner. Regime change isn't the goal, the government says it has no intention of occupying the Gaza Strip with its thousands of invading soldiers....
10 days into the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, the violence continues to escalate and there is still no end in sight. But as the violence moved into the most densely populated portions of the tiny strip, civilians are increasingly in the line of fire and...
