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News Source: Al Jazeera
| 10 months ago
Heavy fighting is reported in Gaza between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters after Israel launched its ground offensive on the territory. Thousands of Israeli troops entered the Gaza Strip overnight with tanks and helicopters, accompanied by...
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News Source: The Jakarta Post
| 10 months ago
Thousands of soldiers in three brigade-size formations pushed into Gaza after nightfall Saturday, beginning a long-awaited ground offensive after a week of intense aerial bombardment. Black smoke billowed over Gaza City at first light and bursts of...
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News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| 10 months ago
It also heightens regional tensions, which have already escalated dramatically amid Israel's week-long aerial bombardment of Gaza. Across the region, wide-spread popular protests have flared against the military action--and against the governments of...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 10 months ago
Army ambulances were seen bringing Israeli wounded to a hospital in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba . The military reported 30 Israeli troops were wounded, two seriously, in the opening hours of the offensive. In his first public comments...
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News Source: The News Journal
| 10 months ago
Thousands of Israeli troops backed by columns of tanks and helicopter gunships launched a ground offensive in Gaza on Saturday night, with officials saying they expected a lengthy fight in the densely populated territory after eight days of punishing...
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
Israeli tanks and troops swept across the border into Gaza last night, opening a ground war against the militant group Hamas after a week of intense airstrikes. Israeli officials said the goal was "to destroy the terrorist infrastructure of Hamas,"...
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News Source: BBC
| 10 months ago
As dawn broke on Sunday, a large plume of black smoke could be seen rising from part of the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Correspondents say there was a constant sound of machine-gun fire and explosions, as Israeli forces pounded Gaza from land...
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News Source: Denver Post
| 10 months ago
As the ground troops moved in, Israel kept pounding Gaza with airstrikes. F-16 warplanes hit three targets within a few minutes, including a main Hamas security compound. Israeli troops avoid cities Witnesses in Gaza said that in the first phase,...
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News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
Israeli troops have killed dozens of Hamas militants during the much-expected ground operation into Gaza, after week-long airstrikes on the coastal strip claimed over 460 Palestinian lives. Israeli forces marched into the coastal territory...
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News Source: News 24
| 10 months ago
Israeli tanks and infantry battled Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip on Sunday in a ground offensive launched after eight days of deadly air strikes failed to halt the Islamist group's rocket attacks on Israel. Wearing night-vision goggles on their...