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 [...]

UN HQ Ablazed Update: Hamas Leader Killed

Hamas officials confirmed the death of Interior Minister Saeed Seyyam. A top aide, Seyyam’s brother and his brother’s family were also killed in the attack on a house in the Jabalya refugee camp, as reported on SkyNews. It comes as Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said the shelling of the UN headquarters in Gaza had [...]

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 [...]

Israel: Troops Would Push Further Into Gaza

Israel dropped bombs and leaflets on Gaza on Saturday, pounding suspected rocket sites and tunnels used by Hamas militants and warning of a wider offensive despite frantic diplomacy to end the bloodshed. According to The Associated Press(AP), Egypt hosted talks aimed at defusing the crisis, but war had the momentum on a bloody day on [...]

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 [...]

100 Of Palestinians Bombed: UN Wants Answers

Around 30 people are reported to have been killed in the incident which happened in Zeitoun, south of Gaza city, where Red Cross workers later found four small children next to the corpses of their mothers. The UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) cited reports of ‘extensive destruction and many deaths’ in [...]

Israel Missile Raids: UN School hit

More update on the Israel missile raids from The Associated Press (AP) that Israeli forces edged closer to Gaza’s major population centers on Tuesday and attacked new sites, including a U.N. school, taking more civilian lives after ignoring mounting international calls for an immediate cease-fire. A Palestinian rocket attack wounded an Israeli infant. The United [...]

Gaza: Civillian Toll Rises, No Stopping Attacks From Israel

Israel ignored mounting international calls for a cease-fire and said it won’t stop its crippling 10-day assault until “peace and tranquility” are achieved in southern Israeli towns in the line of Palestinian rocket fire. Israeli forces seized control of high-rise buildings Monday and attacked smuggling tunnels and several mosques in a relentless campaign against Hamas [...]

Malaysia: Emergency UN Session On Gaza Needed

Today, Malaysia has called on the United Nations to convene an emergency session on the Israeli military offensive in Gaza, saying it had a ‘moral duty’ to end the violence as reported on the AP. ‘I note that the UN Security Council continues to fail to act on this critical matter,’ Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad [...]