Teacher killed and pupils hurt in Israeli missile attack In a separate incident, Israeli ground forces backed by aircraft exchanged fire with Hamas gunmen in the northern Gaza Strip, killing six militants.
Gaza: Israel?s Energy Cuts Violate Laws of War Israel?s cuts of fuel and electricity to Gaza, set to escalate today, amount to collective punishment of the civilian population, and violate Israel?s obligations under the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today.
Rights groups slam Israeli energy cuts to Gaza
Palestinian premier to US for aid talks Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad is due in Washington on Thursday for talks in Congress over American aid promised to the Palestinian Authority.
Unknown gunmen blow up a coffee shop in down town Rafah city
Israel arrests 17 Palestinians in West Bank
Hamas says 26 missiles fired into Israel Hamas resumed rocket attacks on Tuesday when Israeli air force raided a position of Hamas' police forces in southern Gaza Strip, killing at least six officers.
Islamic Jihad rejects deployment of international forces in Gaza
A Palestinian patient looses arm as treatment refused by Israeli hospital Israeli media sources reported that an injured Palestinian man lost his arm as Israeli hospital refused treat him.
Hamas rejects Abbas truce offer as Israel kills seven in Gaza Hamas promptly rejected the offer, with spokesman Fawzi Barhum branding it a "blackmail attempt against the Palestinian people whom (Abbas) has left to be massacred."
Hamas: PNA uses Gaza humanitarian crisis for political aims "The crisis in Gaza was a humanitarian one resulted from the siege...it is unacceptable that the crisis be exploited in a way that builds pressure on Hamas movement,"
Two children lightly hurt in Qassam strike on Negev kibbutz
Israeli army says rocket silos found in Gaza The Israeli army on Thursday released video footage of what it said were underground silos in the northern Gaza Strip which militants intended to use to fire rockets into the Jewish state.
Israel should not 'worsen' Gaza humanitarian crisis: US "We understand Israel's right to defend itself but we do not think that action should be taken that would infringe upon or worsen the humanitarian situation for the civilian population in Gaza,"
Egypt threatens to break the legs of Gaza infiltrators
Blair sees Palestinians moving to implement "road map"
RELEASE: Israeli military blocks main access road in South Hebron Hills
American Jewish leader: Don't rule out Bush on Iran US President George W. Bush is committed to dealing with the Iranian nuclear program even as he enters his last year of office, a senior American Jewish leader said Wednesday.
Hamas conditionally welcomes return of EU monitors to Rafah crossing
Starting tomorrow: Escalation in collective punishment of Gaza ? with supreme court approval - further electricity cuts planned The cutbacks to electricity were permitted after Israel's Supreme Court last week rejected a petition by ten Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations challenging Israel's planned reductions to the supplies of electricity and fuel it allows Gaza residents to purchase.
Thieving IDF soldiers to be dismissed Four IDF combat soldiers will apparently be dismissed from their combat unit after they were caught stealing equipment destined for the Palestinians at a roadblock en route to Gaza. The goods in questions were confiscated by authorities before the soldiers proceeded to steal them.
ACT Appeal OPT: Gaza Crisis ? MEPL71 Revision 1 The ACT Coordinating Office is based with the World Council of Churches (WCC) and The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Switzerland.
Israeli Army blocks the only road for the residents of an east Jerusalem neighborhood
Blair, Peres highlight importance to improve Palestinian economy
Hamas police seize convoy of food, medicine meant for Palestinian Red Crescent: officials A Hamas official said the aid was seized because the organization was distributing aid to former Fatah fighters and not to impoverished Palestinians.
Palestinians: Men killed by IDF strike died during afternoon prayer service
Palestinian security forces attack a Palestinian family in Bethlehem Eyewitnesses told IMEMC that Palestinian troops entered the camp in the late afternoon, officers then tried to remove Hamas flags which were but by a family on their roof tops.
Qassams land near Ashkelon, in western Negev
Top Spies To Be Called in Aipac Trial The use of these witnesses appears to be part of an unexpected strategy on behalf of the prosecution ? to show that the former lobbyists not only broke the law but also exposed America to a real national security threat More power to 'em (prosecution).
Bomber's aunt: He was depressed following parents' divorce According to the relative, the mother began to worry, but even after hearing about the bombing, none of the relatives imagined that Herbawi was the one who carried it out.
At-Tuwani Update January 08
India to Pay a Price For Launching Israeli Spy Satellite Besides the much-touted "strategic partnership" with the US, India has also developed a close political and military relationship with Israel, with which it established full diplomatic relations only in 1992. This has entailed a huge shift away from India's traditional support for the cause of Palestinian nationhood.
A Silly Pretext No Arab or Islamic country armed even with the smallest of atomic bombs will be ready to hit Israel. And that, is because Israel is a small country interwoven and surrounded by Palestinian and Arab nations.
UN officer reported Israeli war crimes before deadly bombing: widow A United Nations military observer sent e-mails home to Canada reporting that Israel was bombing schools and waging "a campaign of terror against the Lebanese people" shortly before he was killed by an Israeli bomb in Lebanon, said his widow. Israel has committed war crimes against US military and our government let them get away with it.
Op-Ed: Posters, pettiness and Palestine
Analyze This: Why 'maverick' McCain is likely to follow consensus when it comes to Israel policy For many on the Right, especially the so-called Jewish neo-conservatives, a US administration that dedicates itself too fervently, and involves itself too directly in a negotiating process between Israel and the Palestinians, is bound to end up pressuring Jerusalem to make concessions on such matters as West Bank settlements and tough security measures that impact on the general Palestinian population. This is the path the current Republican administration has followed in recent months, and one that fits less with the neo-conservative outlook evident in the early years of the Bush White House, and more with the mainstream of US policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict over the past two decades.
Suicide-bombers Just what are they dreaming of?
Back to abnormal TWO weeks after the Islamists of Hamas toppled the border fence, letting hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of the Gaza Strip spill briefly into Egypt, the situation appears to have returned to what counts as normal. But normal is not good.
Israeli-Arab professor ordered to apologize, pledge respect to Israeli army uniform Hassan remained adamant that he would not give in to the demand.
«I will never, never, never (apologize). I have my pride living in my homeland and I have my rights,» he said. About 40 students rallied on Wednesday in a show of support for him.
America through a lens, brightly As Hollywood pushes its product aggressively abroad, executives view international talent and themes as ever more critical in promoting films in these markets. In "The Kingdom" Jamie Foxx stars alongside Palestinian actor Ashraf Barhom, who plays a brave Saudi Arabian police officer.
Stuck At The Gaza Border The Israeli terminal at the Erez crossing is infamous. Colleagues have been detained for hours, strip searched, interrogated.
Column: Palestinian groups set tone for change through nonviolence
U.S. key to Mideast peace, faith leaders say American Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders say there is an urgent need for U.S. leadership to negotiate a lasting cease-fire in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Syria says Golan Heights the key to peace with Israel
Edwards, Wynn favor further U.S. engagementon Mideast peace "One of the requests I had [from a Jewish organization] was a full-blown position paper [on Israel]," she said. "I'm also really thoughtful, and I wasn't in a position to sit down and write" such a document. She said that her campaign does have such a paper on foreclosures, but that's because the topic comes up in every meeting she has with voters.
U.S. heading to war in Iran, says former inspector The White House is using outright fabrications and exaggerations to persuade the American public that Iran has an active nuclear weapons program, Ritter and Peck claimed. The ultimate goal, they said, is overthrow of Iran?s Islamic theocracy.
FBI now involved in gas station explosion. Many questions are left surrounding the death of a young Palestinian man. And, the FBI wants answers.
Israeli Apartheid Week launches in Soweto
One Internet cut explained, but four others still a mystery
Lebanon's Hariri blasts Syria and Iran, calls for mass rally
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO HELP GALWAY WOMAN IN GAZA The Minister for Foreign Affairs says officials from his Department are trying to help a Galway woman and her daughter who are stranded on the Palestinian side of the Egyptian border.
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