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News Source: Ya Libnan
| 10 months ago
For more than a week now, Israel's armored columns have been poised at the edge of Gaza, carefully drawn battle plans in hand, ready to launch the ground component of the military campaign to deter Hamas from firing rockets into Israel. Even as the...
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News Source: AKI
| 10 months ago
As Israeli leaders showed no sign of ending the week-long air attacks in the Gaza Strip on Friday, the political impact of their action was already being assessed. Analysts told Adnkronos International (AKI) that attacks on the ruling Hamas movement...
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News Source: The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Analysis For as long as both sides think they can win, blood will continue to be spilt Jeremy Bowen Israel was not allowing international journalists into Gaza this week, so I sat under a pine tree on a small hill, on the edge of the Israeli border...
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News Source: The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Critical emergency' after air strike every 20 minutes Much of Gaza's public infrastructure has been destroyed and the territory is in a "critical emergency" after seven days of devastating bombing with air strikes averaging one every 20 minutes, the...
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News Source: The independent
| 10 months ago
Some were troubled by pictures of children and women among the casualties, others voiced trepidation about a ground invasion, but the overwhelming view among Israelis on the streets of Jerusalem yesterday was that their government was right to attack...
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
Israeli warplanes struck targets in Gaza on Friday and Islamist fighters fired rockets into the Israeli port of Ashkelon, dashing international hopes of a ceasefire to end seven days of fighting. The Israeli air force bombed around 20 targets,...
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News Source: Zawya Political
| 10 months ago
Text Size Israel's continuing attacks on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip are likely to play a key role in shaping the outcome of next month's Israeli general election, with polls yesterday indicating growing support for Ehud Barak, the defence...
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News Source: Press TV
| 10 months ago
It is hard to make any definite judgments about the military situation. The goals of the Israeli government it seems to me are pretty clear. Number one Israel wants to reestablish what it calls its deterrence capacity...It basically means to restore...
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News Source: Associated Press
| 10 months ago
Israel's crushing aerial assault on Gaza has caused a significant shift in the country's mood, replacing lingering helplessness and frustration over Hamas rocket attacks with a sense of might and vindication. Leaders who were unpopular only a week...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 10 months ago
A new poll shows that more than half of Israelis support continuing Israel's air assault against militant targets in the Gaza Strip. According to the Haaretz-Dialog poll released Thursday, 52 percent of respondents favor continuing the air campaign.