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An independent national commission of inquiry into the conduct of the war in Gaza and the Negev should have been established. Because we did not initiate an impartial investigation of the IDF actions, we are partially responsible for inviting much of...
Tags: Arab-Israeli, Gaza Strip, Ehud Barak, IDF, Goldstone Commission, Richard Goldstone, operation cast, cast lead, defense ministers
Over the past few weeks much of the talk around the coffee tables of former South Africans in Israel has been about the United Nations Human Rights Council report on Operation Cast Lead, commonly known as the Goldstone Report. The report's author Justice...
Tags: Judge Richard Goldstone, Israel, Gaza, Goldstone Report, Goldstone Asks White House, operation cast, challenged used, obama administration, goldstone challenged, Hamas
Nearly half a million people have watched a video clip of Col. Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, giving a pro-Israeli testimony at the UN Human Right Council's special session on the Goldstone Commission's Report on...
Tags: Gaza, Israeli, operation cast, gaza war, cast lead, war crimes, Iranian-Canadian, Goldstone Commission Report
MK Nachman Shai (Kadima) accused the government of backing Israel into a "dead end" and called on the Netanyahu administration to establish a judicial investigative committee into Operation Cast Lead. "The stronger the diplomatic offensive against Israel...
Tags: Israeli, Kadima MK, Richard Goldstone, cast lead, Gaza, Nachman Shai, stop talking, mk nachman, war crimes, operation cast
A Givati Brigade soldier who stole a Palestinian's credit card during Operation Cast Lead and used it to withdraw NIS 1,600 ($405) was sentenced to seven and-a-half months in a military prison. In its ruling, the Southern Command's military court said...
Tags: Gaza, Southern Command Military Court, credit card, Israeli, cast lead, operation cast, IDF Radio, brigade soldier, NIS, Palestinian
Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday that the army is currently reviewing about 100 complaints from a number of sources, including soldiers who took part in the devastating military operations on Gaza, as well as Palestinians and human rights groups. The...
Tags: Israeli, Gaza Strip, Noam Shalit, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, prime minister, cast lead, operation cast, gaza war, IDF
The Israeli government approved NIS 104 million monthly transfers into Gaza with NIS 50 million earmarked for Palestinian Authority government workers, according to a Ynet report late on Wednesday. For the first time since Operation Cast Lead, cement...
Tags: Hamas-run Gaza Strip, Gaza City, Israeli, Israel Approves Money, Palestinians, IDF, cast lead, AP Photo/Adel Hana, operation cast
The controversy surrounding testimonials of conduct unbecoming by the Israeli Defense Forces during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza was the focus of a heated Knesset discussion Wednesday, demonstrating once more the polarity within the Israeli parliament....
Tags: cast lead, operation cast, National Union, MK Ben-Ari, Gaza, Muhammad Barakeh
The Israeli IDF has updated its casualty figures for the war on the Gaza Strip and suggests that only 309 Palestinians killed were innocent civilians, the Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported on Wednesday. The IDF claims that the number comes from the 1,249...
Tags: Gaza Strip, Israeli, IDF, Yoav Galant, cast lead, war crimes, operation cast, Hamas, OC Southern Command Maj., Palestinian
IDF soldiers discovered during Operation Cast Lead that Hamas had brought improvised grenades into Gaza by hiding them in humanitarian shipments. The grenades were made out of medicine bottles filled with explosives, and had been brought in with other...
Tags: Israel, yemenite jews, Gaza, Hamas Hid Grenades, cast lead, death penalty, operation cast