Israeli troops and Hamas fighters battled at dawn in Gaza Jan. 5 amid tank, artillery and air strikes, as the death toll from the offensive passed 510. Israeli forces moved into the outskirts of Gaza City as families fled or… Read morePalestinian death toll passes 500 as Israeli army moves on Gaza City
From the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Dec. 28: Dear President-Elect Obama, Congratulations on your historic election as the next President of the United States. Last year, you pledged to “take an active role, and make a personal… Read moreActivists to Obama: demand Israel lift Gaza siege
The number of Palestinians killed in the ongoing Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip reached 434, with at least 2,280 wounded as the air campaign entered its seventh day Jan. 3. Five children were killed in al-Qarara town, east of… Read moreGaza death toll above 430 in solid week of Israeli bombardment
Israeli warplanes carried out some 20 strikes in the Gaza Strip overnight, destroying a mosque in the northern town of Jabaliya that the military said was a “terror hub.” As the air offensive entered its seventh day, Hamas ordered a… Read moreIsrael again bombs mosque as Gaza strikes enter seventh day
As Israel continued its bombing of the Gaza Strip targets for a sixth day, targets included the offices of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, and a Gaza City mosque where Hamas activists were reportedly hiding. Rockets had also been fired… Read moreIsrael bombs mosque in sixth day of Gaza air offensive
The Israeli cabinet rejected calls from France and other nations for an immediate 48-hour pause in the devastating air offensive against Gaza, continuing the assault into a fifth day Dec. 31 despite mounting international pressure. A foreign ministry spokesman said… Read moreNearly 400 dead as Gaza bombardment enters fifth day; “humanitarian distaster” looms
Israeli air-strikes on the Gaza Strip entered a fourth day Dec. 30, with raids on a number of Hamas government buildings and security installations, as well as the Islamic University. Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the Knesset that Israel is… Read moreGaza death toll at 350 as air-strikes enter fourth day
Israeli air-strikes continued on Gaza for a second day Dec. 28, bringing the death toll to 292, with more than 1,000 injured, 180 of them seriously. (Ma’an News Agency, Dec. 28) At the 36-hour point in Israel’s “Operation Cast Lead,”… Read moreGaza Strip death toll approaches 300 in two days of air-strikes
A statement from Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc, via the independent Palestinian Ma’an News Agency, Dec. 27: Bloodshed and suffering on both sides of the border could have been avoided. It is possible to return immediately to the ceasefire,… Read moreGush Shalom: Israel broke Gaza ceasefire
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal called Dec. 27 for a new uprising against Israel after air-strikes in the Gaza Strip killed more than 200. “I call upon you to carry out a third intifada,” Meshaal told his followers from Damascus in… Read moreHamas calls for “Third Intifada” as air-strikes pound Gaza
Ahmed Saadat, secretary-general of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was sentenced by an Israeli military court Dec. 25 to 30 years in prison for heading a “terrorist organization.” An Israeli army statement said Saadat, also a… Read morePFLP leader Ahmed Saadat sentenced to 30 years
