Monthly Archives: January 2009

Rocket Fire, Hostilities Continue In Gaza

Smoke caused by explosions from Israeli forces’ operations rises from buildings on the outskirts of Gaza City yesterday. (Hatem Moussa/Associated Press) Yesterday, no schools in communities and towns at a distance of 30 miles Gaza...

Israel Expects Hamas To Strike Tel Aviv

The Middle East Newsline reports, based on accounts from highly placed sources in Israel’s intelligence community, Hamas likely will deploy missiles and rockets capable of striking the commercial center of the Jewish state. Israeli military...

Jewish Day Of Fasting Coincides With Conflict

Today marks a fast day on the Jewish calendar - The 10th of Tevet, which is one of four Jewish fast days that commemorate difficult times in Jewish history. The others are Tisha B’Av (the...

Israeli Air Force Strikes 30 Targets As War Continues

Israeli police officers examine damage at a kindergarten after a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza hit the southern Israeli city of Ashdod yesterday. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling...

Israel Launches Its Gaza Ground Invasion

On Saturday, the Israeli army launched a ground invasion of Gaza, and by yesterday, it had effectively cut the territory in two. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operated on the ground in the northern Gaza...

Israel Hammers Strategic Hamas Targets

Thursday, Hamas fired a long-range Grad 122-mm Katyusha rocket, which struck a penthouse on the eighth floor of an apartment building in Ashdod. Firefighters rushed to the scene to battle the subsequent blaze ignited...

Israeli Civil Rights Lobby And Human Shields In Gaza

As the war in Gaza continues, the issue of the possibility of Palestinian civilian deaths hovers over the conscience of the people of Israel and the judicial system of Israel, at a time when...