Posted by Maya Norton to Global Voices Online Six days after Israeli and Palestinian forces brokered a ceasefire agreement, four kassam rockets fired from Gaza blasted the Western Negev. Islamic Jihad claimed credit for the attack, while Hamas, Palestine’s ruling party, encouraged “all Palestinian factions to abide by the calm agreement,” asserting, “Hamas is keen […]
Israeli use of cluster bombs in Lebanon illegal
New Zealand: Human Rights Watch said on Sunday that Israel breached international law when it bombed southern Lebanon with cluster weapons during its campaign against Hizbullah in 2006. Israel said it used the weapons in “built up areas” only if they contained rocket or missile launching sites, and only after warning area residents. New York-based […]
Israeli Air Strike kills four Gaza
Four people have died in an Israeli strike on a Hamas-run police station in the southern Gaza city of khan Younis. The Israeli military said in a statement it had targeted a rocket crew position in southern Gaza. It said it attacked” In response to rocket and motar attacks.. on localities in southern Isreal” The […]
Hamas Fires Rockets at Israel After Air Raids
On Thursday the Gaza militants (Hamas) fired three improvised rockets from Gaza at southern Israeli towns in response to the earlier airstrikes that killing of two militants in southern Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad (Holy War), Saraya al-Quds movement’s armed division claimed responsibility for the rockets attacks, the group said in a leaflet that "it […]
Hamas leaders killed in Gaza
Said Siyam is the most senior leader of the Islamist militant organisation Hamas to have been killed since the beginning of the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. Hamas television said Mr Siyam, his son, brother Iyad and his brother’s family, had died when an Israeli missile struck his brother’s home in Gaza City on […]
In the US, Gaza is a different war
The images of two women on the front page of an edition of The Washington Post last week illustrates how mainstream US media has been reporting Israel’s war on Gaza. On the left was a Palestinian mother who had lost five children. On the right was a nearly equally sized picture of an Israeli woman […]
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