After Israel's last minute attempts to force another delay in the vote failed, the United Nations Security Council finally managed to pass a Gaza Strip ceasefire resolution with a 14-0 vote. The United States abstained from voting on the resolution. The resolution...
Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced today that he would ban Iranians from leaving the country to carry out suicide attacks against Israel. The ban is an attempt to silence calls by Iran's far right to take a direct role in confronting Israel on its attacks...
In what Red Cross chief for Israel and the Palestinian territories Pierre Wettlach described as "a shocking incident," relief workers found four starving children next to their mothers and other corpses in a neighborhood of Gaza City which Israel had denied them...
As rescue teams continue to pull bodies from the wreckage that two weeks ago was the Gaza Strip, the death toll now sits at 765, and is expected to rise even further in the days to come. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told reservists that despite multiple...
The international media continues to complain about the Israeli government's decision, contrary to their own Supreme Court's ruling, not to allow any foreign journalists to enter the Gaza Strip nearly two weeks into their attacks. The Israeli Foreign Ministry, already...
Shortly before Israel was scheduled to start another three hour humanitarian pause in its now nearly two week long attack on the Gaza Strip, an Israeli tank attacked a United Nations aid truck at the Erez border crossing, killing the driver and seriously wounding...
Echoing Pope Benedict XVI's repeated calls to end the ongoing bloodshed in the Gaza Strip, Vatican Justice and Peace Minister Cardinal Renato Martino urged both the Israeli government and Hamas to show more willingness toward peace talks and for the world to help them...
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...
