Hamas has reportedly told the Egyptian government that it will agree to a year-long, renewable ceasefire in the Gaza Strip if Israel withdraws its forces from the strip in the next week and reopens the border crossings which have long remained closed. The offer falls...
The headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip was attacked today by Israeli artillery, sparking a fire which continues to burn. The compound was reportedly housing 700 civilian refugees and storehouses of increasingly scarce...
The International Criminal Court declared today that it has no jurisdiction over the actions of Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, meaning that the growing number of calls by humanitarian organizations to investigate Israeli activities in the Gaza Strip cannot lead to...
The struggling Egyptian ceasefire effort for the Gaza Strip seems to have finally made some meaningful progress after a week of backdoor wrangling, as Hamas has accepted the deal "in principle," though they said they had reservations about some of the terms and were...
19 days in, the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip passed another major milestone, with over 1,000 Palestinians killed in the attack. The Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights, which has been tracking the toll, said 673 of those killed were civilians, with 225...
Top Israeli defense officials say that the military has accomplished all that it possibly could in nearly three weeks of attacks on the Gaza Strip, and they support the idea of ending the operations before the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama next week....
Defense Minister Ehud Barak is reportedly in favor of a week-long "humanitarian ceasefire" in the Gaza Strip to curb the growing international criticism about the war's toll on civilians. Even Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who spoke with pride at how the military had...
Perhaps already practicing for what he hopes will be a return to the position of Israeli Prime Minister after next month's elections, hawkish Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu defended the attacks on the Gaza Strip as the act of "a responsible government," cheered the...
"We are treating everything as hostile right now. We were told not to take chances - to shoot rather than ask questions." That is the policy of the invading Israeli soldiers as described by one of their lieutenants. And indeed, they're doing plenty of shooting. As for...
"It seems at this moment the invasion is beginning at a number of points in the Gaza Strip," Ramallah-based reporter Hadir Shaheen declared on Saturday, January 3. And he was right. Less than two hours later the beginning of Israel's ground invasion of the Gaza Strip...
