Gaza Rockets

Hamas Puts Down Rockets, Takes Up Movie Making

nytimes.com | Posted 08.23.2009 | World


GAZA -- Seven months after Israel launched a fierce three-week military campaign here to stop rockets from being fired on its southern communities, Ha...

Israel 4th Most Dangerous Country In World: Report

Haaretz | Posted 07.04.2009 | World


According to the Global Peace Index, released Wednesday, Israel ranks fourth to last among the 144 countries included in the index, an annual ranking ...

Gaza Rockets Hit Israel After 2-Week Lull

Haaretz | Posted 05.16.2009 | World


Palestinian militants fired a Qassam rocket into the western Negev on Wednesday, ending a 2-week lull in cross-border rocket fire. The rocket explod...

Israel's Anti-Rocket System Test Successful

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 04.27.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Israel has successfully tested a high-tech system designed to protect civilians from rocket attacks by militant groups in Gaza and s...

Hamas Breaks Precedent, Condemns Gaza Rocket Fire

AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 04.12.2009 | World


GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Islamic militant group Hamas made a rare criticism Thursday of Palestinian rocket fire on Israel, saying now is the ...

Israel Bombs Gaza Tunnels In Response To Rockets

Haaretz | Anshel Pfeffer | Posted 03.28.2009 | World


Israel Air Force aircraft bombed smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border on Wednesday after two rockets hit southern Israel, the army said. ...

Long-Term Israel Truce Imminent: Hamas

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 03.16.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Hamas officials said Friday an agreement with Israel on a long-term cease-fire in Gaza could be announced within days, but a new cyc...

Gaza Militants Fire Rocket At Israel

AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 03.03.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Palestinian militants fired a rocket from Gaza on Saturday that exploded close to the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon without caus...

War Diary from Sderot

Nomika Zion | Posted 02.13.2009 | World


Nomika Zion

Not in my name and not for me did you go into this war. The bloodbath in Gaza is not in my name nor for my security. Behind this accursed leadership of Hamas live human beings.

G-d/Allah Please Tell Us If Israel or Palestine is Right or Wrong?

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 02.11.2009 | World


Yvonne R. Davis

Dear G-d/Allah, It's me Yvonne, are you there? As you know since December 27th, 2008, Hamas and Israel have been at war. Over 800 Palestinians and...

While Gaza Burns, the World Watches

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.09.2009 | World


Eric Margolis

Unless Israel can make five to seven million Palestinians disappear, it must find some way to co-exist with them. Israeli leaders on the center and right continue to avoid facing this fact.

A Postcard From The Gaza Front

Gil Zohar | Posted 02.09.2009 | World


Gil Zohar

!#*&%@%!!! First comes the earnest incoming alert "Color Red! Color Red" giving 15 seconds to find shelter. Then with a kishka-twisting crump, a rock...

Israel, Hamas, Gaza: Plenty of Us in America Just Need to Shut Up

David Quigg | Posted 02.06.2009 | World


David Quigg

Something labeled "Subject: Fwd: Some Differences Between Hamas and the Nazi Party" showed up in my inbox Monday night.

Israelis Learn Tricks To Coping With Rocket Threat

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 01.31.2009 | World


ASHKELON, Israel — Banquet halls have canceled weddings, parents are holding makeshift day care centers in bomb shelters and motorists avoid dri...

Jason Linkins

So Much For The Makeover: Iraq Condemns Israeli Bombardment

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics


Matt Duss is making sense, and bringing the conflict in Gaza into larger perspective: Of the various premises on which the U.S. invasion of Iraq was ...

Human Rights Watch: Israel, Hamas Violating International Law

Human Rights Watch | Posted 01.30.2009 | World


New York, December 30, 2008 - Israel and Hamas both must respect the prohibition under the laws of war against deliberate and indiscriminate attacks o...

Tony Blair To Hold Talks With Israeli, Palestinian Officials

Telegraph | Last Updated: 11:01AM GMT 30 Dec 2008 | Posted 01.30.2009 | World


Tony Blair will visit the Middle East next week as the international community steps up its efforts to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Mr...

Israel weighs 48-hour halt to Gaza air campaign

AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK and JASON KEYSER | Posted 01.30.2009 | World


GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel, under international pressure, is considering a 48-hour halt to its punishing four-day air campaign on Hamas targ...

In the Shadow of Airstrikes in Jerusalem

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 01.28.2009 | World


Ilana Teitelbaum

With the coming war and intifada on my mind, I realize that thousands of rockets have been fired into Israel in recent years, yet because we in Jerusalem don't get hit by them, it has always seemed removed.

Palestinians Brace For Israeli Attack After Militants Ignore Warnings

The National Newspaper | Posted 01.26.2009 | World


Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were bracing for an Israeli attack that one newspaper said could come as early as tomorrow, after militants ignored war...

Gaza Militants Bombard Israel With Dozens Of Rockets, Mortars

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 01.24.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip bombarded southern Israel with dozens of mortars and rockets on Wednesday, sowing panic and ...

Hamas: Israel-Gaza Truce Is Over

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 01.19.2009 | World


Update: 12/19/08 8am: The six-month truce between Israel and Hamas is now over, and the New York Times reports that the security situation is likely ...