By DIAA HADID
Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) – Palestinian militants fired a rocket from Gaza on Saturday that landed close to the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon without causing any damages or injury, an Israeli military spokesman said.
Israeli forces and Gaza militants are meant to be refrain from attacking each other, but the fragile cease-fire has been [...]
By MATTI FRIEDMAN
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM (AP) – Palestinian militants detonated a bomb next to an Israeli army patrol along the border with Gaza on Tuesday, killing one soldier and wounding three others in the first serious clash since a cease-fire went into effect more than a week ago.
Israeli soldiers briefly crossed the border in search [...]
By BEN HUBBARD and ALFRED de MONTESQUOIU
Associated Press Writers
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon toured the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to inspect the devastation wrought by Israel’s three-week onslaught as the territory’s militant Hamas rulers, triumphant at having survived the assault, held victory rallies amid the ruins.
Thousands of Hamas supporters gathered [...]
GAZA CITY (AFP) — Israel poured reservists into Gaza on Monday as the death toll in its war on Hamas neared 900, but officials said an end to the fighting might be in sight as more ceasefire talks were scheduled in Egypt.
Israeli troops had pushed deeper into Gaza’s main city on Sunday, as warplanes carried [...]
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops made their deepest advance into the Gaza Strip’s most heavily populated area on Sunday, encountering increasingly fierce resistance from Hamas fighters as they warned civilians to stay clear of the battle zone.
Speaking to his Cabinet, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the country “is nearing” its goals, [...]
By IBRAHIM BARZAK and KARIN LAUB
Associated Press Writer
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Tiny bodies lying side by side wrapped in white burial shrouds. The cherubic face of a dead preschooler sticking up from the rubble of her home. A man cradling a wounded boy in a chaotic emergency room after Israel shelled a U.N. [...]
Troops Targeting Hamas Effectively Bisect the Territory as Ground Incursion Continues
By Sudarsan Raghavan and Griff Witte
Washington Post Foreign Service
JERUSALEM, Jan. 4 — Israeli ground forces backed by air and naval power moved into the Gaza Strip on Sunday, bisecting the northern and southern sections and targeting areas from which Hamas fighters are launching rockets, according [...]
Israeli troops fought heavy battles with Hamas fighters in two densely populated Gaza towns today as the Army sought to split the strip into three sections to cut off the Islamist group’s supply lines.
Thirty Israeli troops were injured, two seriously, and dozens of Palestinian fighters were killed, the military said. Hamas said that it had [...]
By IBRAHIM BARZAK and JOSEF FEDERMAN
Associated Press Writers
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israeli warplanes and gunboats blasted more than two dozen Hamas positions Saturday, targeting weapons storage facilities, training centers and homes of leaders. But as the offensive against Gaza’s Islamic militant rulers entered a second week, international cease-fire efforts were gaining momentum.
There were [...]
By JOSEPH MAYTON / THE MEDIA LINE NEWS AGENCY
Rarely do Egyptian demonstrations see thousands of people take to the streets. But, put together anti-Israeli and anti-government sentiments spearheaded by the powerful Muslim Brotherhood, and the result is the country’s largest street action since the first anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq in [...]
