The Israeli military attacked what it described as a "weapons manufacturing facility" in Rafah today, and continued to strike tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border, in what it said was retaliation for an apparent Qassam launch by militants in the Gaza Strip. The Qassam...
The French Foreign Ministry summoned Israeli ambassador Daniel Shek today over an incident in which a convoy of French diplomats, including the nation's consul general were blocked from crossing the Gaza border for over six hours and shot at by Israeli troops. The...
Credit for the roadside bombing which killed an Israeli soldier along the Gaza border earlier today has been claimed by the Jihad and Tawhid Brigades, an al-Qaeda linked group which has repeatedly clashed with Hamas. Still, the Israeli military says that even though...
Former Justice Department employee James Lindsay released a report today titled "Fixing UNRWA: Repairing the UN's Troubled System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees" which took the United Nations Relief and Works Agency to task for, among other things, treating the...
The Israeli military had its first post-ceasefire casualty today, when a roadside bomb near the Kissufim border crossing killed one soldier and wounded three others. So far none of the assorted groups that fought Israel during the invasion of the Gaza Strip has...
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni lauded the war in the Gaza Strip today during a meeting with US ambassador James Cunningham, saying it "created a strategic change in the status of Hamas" and "can serve as a stimulus for the new [Obama] Administration and the...
The Egyptian government is reportedly pressing Hamas to hurry up and agree to a ceasefire with Israel's outgoing Kadima-led government before next month's elections. Several terms are yet to be agreed upon by both sides, but they have maintained a ceasefire for over a...
Israeli human rights group Yesh Din is calling for the ouster of the military's top rabbi, Brigadier General Avichai Rontzki over his messages to soldiers during the 22-day military offensive in the Gaza Strip. The primary concern was a booklet which, among other...
The fragile truce in the Gaza Strip continues to endure. The Israeli invasion force has left... the bodies have largely been recovered from the rubble that used to be the cities and refugee camps of Gaza. This is the time when a war torn nation would begin its...
New US Envoy George Mitchell will be arriving in the Middle East by Wednesday, but Israeli President Shimon Peres sees no reason for the Israeli government to be concerned. "These are mere overtures by the new US administration in order to learn more about the...
