Israel: Last Troops To Pullout Form Gaza

The last Israeli troops left the Gaza Strip before dawn Wednesday, the military said, as Israel dispatched its foreign minister to Europe in a bid to rally international support to end arms smuggling into the Hamas-ruled territory. The AP reported that the timing of the pullout reflected Israeli hopes to defuse the crisis in Gaza [...]

Ban Ki-moon Visited Gaza Strip

Confronted by stark scenes of destruction, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, and Israel was poised to withdraw its troops before the U.S. presidential inauguration later in the day. Ban, on a Middle East tour, was the highest-ranking international figure to visit the territory since separately declared ceasefires by Israel and [...]

Gaza-Israel: A Ceasefire At Last!

Sky News has reported that the Israeli war cabinet has backed a unilateral ceasefire at last in Gaza from 2am Sunday morning local time. Troops will however remain inside Gaza, at least for a few days. After several hours of discussions with his ministers Prime Minister Ehud Olmert emerged to say that ‘the goals we [...]

Israel: UN School Was a ‘Miss’

Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a suburb of Gaza City Sunday in one of the fiercest ground battles so far as Israel’s military inched toward Gaza’s population centers and residents braced for an expansion of the offensive. The fighting in the Sheikh Ajleen neighborhood erupted before dawn and continued through the morning as Israeli [...]

Malaysia: FREE PALESTINE!

The Associated Press(AP) has reported today that some 3,000 Malaysians protested on Friday against Israel’s invasion of Gaza, burning Israeli flags and effigies of President George W. Bush. The mainly Muslim protesters, waving Palestinian flags and chanting anti-Israel slogans, marched to the U.S. Embassy in downtown Kuala Lumpur from a nearby mosque after Friday prayers. [...]

Israel: UN Resolution Rejected

Reuters reported that Israel rejected a U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza on Friday and, as jets and tanks again pounded the Palestinian enclave, ministers debated whether to step up their two-week-old campaign against Hamas guerrillas. With the civilian death toll in the hundreds and rising amid outraged denunciations of Israel from the [...]

Malaysia: Let Us All Boycott U.S Goods!

More than 2,000 Muslim restaurants in Malaysia will remove Coca-Cola from their menus as part of a boycott of American products in protest against Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, officials said today to a local newspaper,  The Star. American companies are being targeted because of the U.S. government’s support of Israel, which is carrying out a [...]

Israel And Hamas For Peace At Last?

According to the Los Angeles Times, Israel and Hamas scaled back their fighting in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and weighed a cease-fire proposal from Egypt and France, even as Israeli leaders considered a deeper assault into the Palestinian group’s urban strongholds. Fighting on the 12th day of the air, land and sea offensive all [...]

Israel: 3 Hours Of Aids Only

More on the attacks on Gaza City, Gaza, Israel ordered a pause in its Gaza offensive for three hours Wednesday to allow food and fuel to reach besieged Palestinians, and the country’s leaders debated whether to accept an international cease-fire plan or expand the assault against Hamas. With criticism rising of the operation’s spiraling civilian [...]