New York Times | Israeli Invasion of Gaza Is Likely, Official Says; Brief Cease-Fire Is Set New York Times TEL AVIV — Even as Israel and Hamas agreed to suspend hostilities briefly on Thursday at the request of the United Nations, a senior Israeli military official said that his government was increasingly likely to order a ground invasion of the Gaza ... Shelling kills four boys on Gaza beach; Israel, Hamas set five-hour truce Israel Agrees to Cease-Fire to Allow Aid to Gaza Israel, Hamas agree to 5-hour cease-fire to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza |
NBCNews.com | Innocent and Gone: Israeli Strike on Gaza Kills Four Children NBCNews.com GAZA CITY - The terrible human toll from the nine-day Gaza conflict was laid bare Wednesday when four Palestinian boys from the same family were killed as they played football on a beach. Three other children were wounded – one of them critically - in ... |
New York Times | Emergency Routine in Israel: 30 Seconds to Run for Cover New York Times ASHKELON, Israel — The usual crowd had gathered behind the police cordons after a rocket struck the yard of a house in this seaside town in southern Israel on Wednesday: police officers, a bomb disposal squad, neighbors, municipal social workers, ... |
New York Times | First Israeli Killed Near Gaza Border New York Times JERUSALEM — Egypt's proposal for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas collapsed Tuesday only a few hours after the Israelis had accepted it, as Palestinian militants in Gaza launched a barrage of rockets and Israel resumed its airstrikes. The Israeli ... |
Politico | Mark Levin: Jon Stewart not funny on Israel Politico Conservative radio host Mark Levin is attacking Jon Stewart for his comments on Israel and Gaza, accusing him of being self-loathing and “a knee-jerk idiot.” “Jon Stewart has about 30 writers and is a knee-jerk idiot,” Levin said of the host of Comedy ... |
TIME | Why the Israel-Gaza Cease-Fire Failed TIME The morning started with a slight patina of optimism. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his cabinet at 7 a.m., two hours before an Egyptian-proposed cease-fire with Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups in Gaza was due to take ... |
ABC News | Israeli Strike Kills Four Boys Playing on Gaza Beach ABC News Four boys who were playing on a beach in Gaza were killed by an Israeli barrage today, according to witnesses, the latest grim fatalities in the aerial battle between Israel and the militant group Hamas. The military strike landed near a hotel where ... |
VICE News | Mideast Conflict 2014: Israel Targets Top Hamas Leader As Gaza Ceasefire ... Huffington Post The surge in hostilities over the past week was prompted by the murder last month of three Jewish seminary students in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the revenge killing on July 2 of a Palestinian youth in Jerusalem. Israel said on Monday three ... Thousands of Gazans flee homes as Israel promises to press the fight 160 Dead as Israel Intensifies Gaza Bombing, Launches Ground Raid Can Israel avoid civilian deaths in Gaza offensive? |
Israel targets homes of senior Hamas leaders Aljazeera.com The AP news agency reported that the Gaza interior ministry said Israel targeted 30 houses, including those of senior Hamas leaders Zahar, Jamila Shanti, Fathi Hamas and Ismail Ashkar. Zahar was a key figure in Hamas rise to power in 2007, while the ... |
Wall Street Journal | Israel Warns Gazans of New Attack After Hamas Rejects Truce Wall Street Journal Israel threatened to broaden its offensive against Hamas after the Islamists rejected a truce, and the army warned tens of thousands of Palestinians in northern Gaza to clear out by Wednesday morning. Despite the continued fighting, the White House ... |