The Palestinian death toll reached 530 as Israel’s assault on Gaza entered its tenth day Jan. 5, and Israeli ground forces encircled Gaza City. Defense Minister Ehud Barak declared the city “partially besieged.” Israeli air-strikes continued, and armed Palestinian groups… Read moreDay ten: Gaza City “partially besieged”
Latin American governments and organizations generally condemned the assault on the Palestinian territory of Gaza by Israeli military forces. There were also a number of street protests, which the media reported were mostly small. The strongest condemnations came from leftist… Read moreLatin America: reactions to attack on Gaza
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
