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PHOTOS: After Israeli Offensive, Gaza's Smuggling Tunnels Are Back In Business

AP | MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH | Posted 12.12.2012 | World

RAFAH, Gaza Strip -- Rafah's biggest industry is back in business: Gazans are rebuilding the network of underground smuggling tunnels crisscrossing th...

Hamas Chief Arrives In Gaza For First-Ever Visit

AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK and IAN DEITCH | Posted 02.06.2013 | World

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — The image of Hamas' long-exiled chief triumphantly walking around the Gaza Strip, flashing victory signs beside Islamic mili...

A Perspective From Gaza: Every Blast Reminds Me of the Injustice

Jehad Saftawi | Posted 01.21.2013 | World
Jehad Saftawi

I write in bursts, between the blasts. The bombs fall, on average, every four to five minutes, round the clock. We brace ourselves. The rule, we know, is this: If you hear it, you're still alive.

The Israel-Gaza War In Photos

Posted 11.16.2012 | World

Israel and Hamas have pounded each other with rockets and missiles over the past days in the most serious flare of fighting between both sides in four...

Tel Aviv Residents Fear Gaza Rocket Attack

AP | Posted 01.15.2013 | World

JERUSALEM -- Palestinian militants barraged Israel with nearly 150 rockets on Thursday, killing three people as Israel pressed a punishing campaign of...

Rocket Hits Tel Aviv Suburb

AP | Posted 01.15.2013 | World

JERUSALEM -- The Israeli army says a rocket has reached the southern outskirts of Tel Aviv, by far the farthest strike by Gaza militants in two days o...

Israel Counted Calories To Avoid Gaza Malnutrition

Reuters | Posted 12.17.2012 | World

JERUSALEM, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Israel calculated the number of calories Palestinians would need to avoid malnutrition under its blockade of the Gaza ...

Violence Flares Up Along Gaza Border

AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 10.09.2012 | World

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israeli forces and Palestinian militants exchanged fire on Monday in the most serious flare-up in months along the border wit...

Israel Military Chief Favors Major Offensive In Gaza

AP | IAN DEITCH | Posted 01.15.2012 | World

JERUSALEM — A Palestinian rocket exploded near a kindergarten in southern Israel on Tuesday, police said, just hours after Israel's military chi...

Gaza Children Hold Kite Festival Despite Resistance

Posted 09.27.2011 | World

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Thousands of Gaza children sent a sea of colorful kites soaring into the sky Thursday in an attempt to break a world rec...

Floating Some Ideas for the Flotilla Folk

David Harris | Posted 09.11.2011 | World
David Harris

Now don't bet the family farm that the flotilla folk will show up anytime soon in Egypt, Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, or anywhere else outside Gaza. The reason? Simple and obvious. If it doesn't have an Israeli connection, they're just not interested.

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Failure of the U.S. Peace Organizations

Jerome Slater | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Jerome Slater

It is true that a more critical and vigorous dissent on the part of APN and J Street risks backfiring, and there might be something to be said for a strategy that was only a little to the left of the consensus -- but only providing it was working.

Gaza War Crimes Trial Reopens

AP | FRANK JORDANS | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

GENEVA — The U.N. Human Rights Council will reopen the debate about alleged war crimes in Gaza later this week after Palestinians succeeded in g...

Israel Gaza War Defended In Government Report

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

JERUSALEM — An Israeli government report released Thursday insisted that "incessant" Hamas rocket attacks forced Israel to hit Gaza hard earlier...

Breaking The Silence Claims Over Gaza Rebuffed By IDF Reservists

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

In part of an ongoing schism within the ranks of the Israeli Defense Forces over alleged abuses against Palestinian civilians during Operation Cast Le...

Gaza Operation: Israeli Soldiers Tell A Different Story Than Official Military Line

Mikhael Manekin | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Mikhael Manekin

Twenty-six soldiers have now come forward to talk about their combat experiences in the Gaza War, and their testimonies are radically different from the official version given by Israel Defense Force spokesmen.

There Are No Direct Flights from Tel Aviv to Tehran

Parvez Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Parvez Sharma

I leave Geneva disappointed and sad. Disappointed at the amazing success and desire, evidently, of the Iranians to add value to their ever growing bad rap.

Hamas Attacked, Killed Dozens Of Political Opponents: Human Rights Watch

AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Hamas directed gunmen to eliminate political opponents and suspected collaborators under the cover of Israel's military of...

Gaza Cricket Hopes To Transcend Boundaries

The Guardian | Duncan Campbell | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

The seductive magic of cover drives and leg spin has won cricket fans around the world and now organisers behind a new initiative close to the Gaza bo...

The Right To Freedom Of Movement In The Holy Land Must Be Restored

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Daoud Kuttab

Israel's willingness to abort the Shalit deal by insisting that some Hamas prisoners must be deported reveals a long-term problem, namely Israel's intention to hold on to the West Bank indefinitely.

Bush Plan Eliminated Obstacle to Gaza Assault

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (IPS) - Until mid-2007, there was a serious political obstacle to a massive conventional war by Israel against Hamas in Gaza: the fa...

Philip Rizk, Gaza Activist, Freed In Cairo

AP | PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

CAIRO — Egypt released a German-Egyptian blogger arrested after protesting against the Gaza offensive but jailed three other pro-Palestinian act...

UN Halts Aid To Gaza Due To Repeated Hamas Theft

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

The UN Relief and and Works agency announced today that is is suspending shipments of aid to Gaza. Citing interference from the militant Hamas organi...

Gaza: the Audacity to Survive

Hani Almadhoun | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Hani Almadhoun

A day after Israel ended its assault in Gaza Strip, my family (like countless other civilians) finally returned to the ruined remnants of their former lives and homes.

Hamas Holds Victory Rallies Across Gaza As UN Chief Inspects Damage

AP | KARIN LAUB and IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Waving green Islamic flags atop the ruins of Gaza, Hamas proclaimed victory in rallies attended by thousands of supporte...