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 Hamas Divided Over 
 Continued Fighting 

Locals want to stop violence; exiled leaders say keep it up

Jan 16, 09 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Hamas is split over its next steps in the continuing bloodshed in Gaza. Local leaders want an end to the violence, while exiled bosses in Syria want to keep battling until all their conditions are met, the Economist reports. Outside leaders are putting pressure on Hamas, particularly its Syrian arm,... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Egypt • truce • Arab Israeli conflict

 Israel Shells UN Headquarters 

Offensive escalates even as ceasefire hopes rise

Jan 15, 09 6:51 AM CST
(Newser) - Israeli shells set fire to the UN’s relief agency headquarters and a hospital today, as Israeli tanks pushed deep into Gaza City, the BBC reports. Some 700 people were inside the compound, along with large amounts of fuel and aid supplies; at least three UN employees were injured. Secretary-General... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Gaza • Ehud Barak • Israel and Palestinians • Gaza City • hospital • Arab Israeli conflict • United Nations Relief and Works Agency • Ban Ki-Moon

 Lebanon 
 Rockets 
 Hit Israel 
 2nd Time 

Soldiers move into Gaza City; UN chief arrives in region

Jan 14, 09 6:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Rockets from Lebanon landed in northern Israel for the second time since the start of the Gaza invasion two weeks ago, Reuters reports. No group has claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks, and Israeli police say no one was hurt. This morning Israeli troops moved closer to the heart of... More »

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Israel • Lebanon • Gaza • rocket attacks • Arab Israeli conflict

OPINION

 Waltz With Bashir 
 Has Echoes of Gaza 

Award-winning film on 1982 Lebanon massacre looks plenty familiar

Jan 13, 09 8:23 PM CST
(Newser) - Israel’s Gaza assault is slipping from US front pages, yet ironically, Waltz With Bashir, an Israeli animated film about the 1982 Israel-Lebanon war, is taking America by storm, earning mountains of critical praise and a Golden Globe. The parallels between that atrocity and the current conflict are striking, Gary... More »

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Israel • film • Gaza • Lebanon War • Cannes Film Festival • Israel and Palestinians • documentary • Arab Israeli conflict • Sabra and Shatilla

Olmert: I Made Condi Abstain on Gaza Vote

Israel PM claims he 'embarrassed' Rice
in urgent call to Bush

Jan 13, 09 9:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel’s prime minister says an urgent call to President Bush last week resulted in Condoleezza Rice changing her vote on a UN Gaza resolution, the New York Times reports, with Ehud Olmert adding that the secretary of State “was left pretty embarrassed.” Rice helped draft the measure... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Condoleezza Rice • vote • Arab Israeli conflict • George W. Bush

 Blair: Gaza Ceasefire in Sight 

Israeli leaders torn over next step

Jan 12, 09 9:38 AM CST
(Newser) - “The elements of an agreement” for a ceasefire in Gaza are in place, Mideast envoy Tony Blair said today amid negotiations in Cairo including representatives of Israel and Hamas. But in Jerusalem, Israeli leaders were weighing an escalation, the Washington Post reports. PM Ehud Olmert is pushing for a... More »

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Israel • Tony Blair • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Hamas • Tzipi Livni • Ehud Barak • ceasefire • Arab Israeli conflict

 Israel Again Pauses 
 to Let Gaza Aid in 

Death toll reaches 898 as new humanitarian supplies arrive

Jan 12, 09 6:40 AM CST
(Newser) - For the fifth day Israel has paused in its onslaught of Gaza to allow residents to retrieve food and supplies, CNN reports. Israel allowed 160 trucks through two border crossings but said it would resume attacks after three hours. Although one Israeli official suggested that the operation may soon conclude,... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • humanitarian aid

ANALYSIS

Hamas, Israel Deploy Deadly New Tactics

Civilians pay the price
of 'asymetrical urban warfare'

Jan 11, 09 4:05 PM CST
(Newser) - The disturbing civilian death toll in Gaza is a result of new tactics being deployed by Hamas, Steven Erlanger writes in the New York Times. Hamas militants, trained by Hezbollah and Iran, are said to be systematically hiding weapons in schoolyards, mosques and hospitals, fighting in civilian clothes, using tunnels... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • Israeli offensive • Israeli Army

 Israeli Pummels Gaza, Pauses 

Air strikes hit 40 targets overnight

Jan 10, 09 6:52 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel continued to pound Gaza last night and this morning as air strikes hit 40 targets and killed 15 Hamas fighters, CNN reports. Attacks were halted for the 3-hour pause this afternoon to allow Gaza residents to restock supplies, the third such pause in the two-week-old conflict. Health workers say... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Arab Israeli conflict • airstrike • casualties • UN resolution

UN Calls for Gaza War Crimes Probe

Rights official accuses Israel of ignoring international law

Jan 10, 09 2:34 AM CST
(Newser) - The UN's top human rights official has called for an investigation into possible war crimes committed by the Israeli military in Gaza, the Guardian reports. She singled out an incident this week where up to 30 Palestinian civilians were killed in a home shelled by Israeli forces and the surviving... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Gaza • Hamas • war crimes • Arab Israeli conflict

 Israel Rebuffs UN, 
 May Call in Reservists 

Cabinet mulls new phase to offensive as bombs rain on Gaza

Jan 9, 09 6:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel pushed ahead with its military operation in Gaza today, despite a unanimous Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. On the 14th day of the offensive, warplanes bombed the outskirts of Gaza City and tanks shelled a house in the north of the Strip, killing six Palestinians from... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Gaza • Hamas • Tzipi Livni • Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • UN Security Council

(Newser) - The UN Security Council tonight passed a resolution—with the US abstaining—calling for "an immediate and durable" cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, the BBC reports. The vote was 14-0. It's unclear how much of an effect it will have on the ground, and Israel appeared to be resuming... More »

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Gaza • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • Mideast

 60 Strikes 
 Pound Gaza 
 Overnight 

Mosque used as hideout leveled; death toll nears 700

Jan 8, 09 6:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel intensified its airstrikes in Gaza last night, reports CNN, bombing about 60 targets across the Strip on the 13th day of the operation. One of the targets was a mosque that the Israeli military claims stored weapons and sheltered Hamas fighters. The airstrikes also targeted 10 Hamas tunnels used... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • humanitarian aid • Israeli Army

 Israel Hit by Rockets 
 Fired From Lebanon 

Attack raises fear that Gaza conflict will widen to second front

Jan 8, 09 3:30 AM CST
(Newser) - At least three rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel today, raising fears that the Gaza conflict is widening, reports the International Herald Tribune. Israeli authorities say the rockets, which they presume were fired by Hezbollah in support of Hamas, landed near the town of Nahariya and injured two Israelis.... More »

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Israel • Lebanon • Gaza • Hezbollah • rocket attacks • Arab Israeli conflict • rocket fire

(Newser) - Israel continues to press its assault and Hamas continues to fire its rockets, but a sliver of hope emerged tonight toward an end to the Gaza hostilities, MSNBC reports. Representatives from Israel, Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority will meet—probably separately—with Egyptian officials in Cairo tomorrow to discuss a... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • Mideast

Reporting From Gaza, This Is
Joe the Plumber

Campaign celeb tries war journalism for conservative website

Jan 7, 09 4:23 PM CST
(Newser) - Perhaps in an effort to ditch his infamous moniker, Joe the Plumber is swapping plunger for pen. The Ohio businessman, the presidential election’s "average American," will spend 10 days near Gaza covering Israel’s perspective on the conflict for pjtv.com, Internet arm of conservative Pajamas Media.... More »

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Israel • Gaza • news • Arab Israeli conflict • reporting • Joe Wurzelbacher • Joe the Plumber • Pajamas Media

Gaza Fighting Continues After 3-Hour Break

Militant rocket fire breaks lull, Israel says

Jan 7, 09 12:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Fighting resumed in Gaza today after a 3-hour ceasefire, the Times of London reports. The lull was broken by a rocket attack launched by Palestinian militants into the Israeli city of Beersheba, Israeli officials said. The Israeli military plans to halt fighting every day from 1-4pm (local time) to allow... More »

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Gaza • Israel and Palestinians • Red Cross • Palestinians • assault • Palestinian people • ceasefire • Arab Israeli conflict

 UN: No Militants 
 in Shelled School 

Mortar may have been fired from nearby grove

Jan 7, 09 10:06 AM CST
(Newser) - The UN says it found no evidence to support claims there were militants inside the UN-run school Israeli forces fired on yesterday in Gaza, killing 40 civilians and injuring 55 more, Time reports. Israeli Defense Forces “returned fire,” a spokesman said, after militants fired mortars from inside the... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Gaza • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict

OPINION

 Gaza Encapsulates Mideast 
 Strife: Friedman 

Can the Jews have a room at this hotel?

Jan 7, 09 9:19 AM CST
(Newser) - The bloody scene playing out in Gaza is painful, but “all too familiar,” writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times: It’s “a mini-version of three great struggles that have been playing out since 1948.” Those struggles:
  • Who Owns This Hotel? Who’s
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Iran • Israel • Middle East • Gaza • Hamas • Thomas Friedman • Arab Israeli conflict

 Israel Grants 3-Hour Reprieve 

Mulls international ceasefire

Jan 7, 09 6:34 AM CST
(AP) - Israel's military paused its Gaza offensive for three hours today to allow food and fuel to reach besieged Palestinians, and the country's leaders debated whether to accept an international ceasefire plan or expand the assault against Hamas. More than 500 aid trucks have entered Gaza since operations began, but military... More »

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Israel • Gaza • aid • Israel and Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • invasion

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