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Kidnapped Italian Activist Found Dead in Gaza
By not in system - AOL NewsGAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- The body of an Italian activist was found hanged in a Gaza apartment just hours after he was abducted by an al-Qaida-inspired group, Hamas said early Friday, in the first kidnapping of a foreigner since the militant Hamas overran the coastal strip nearly four years ago. Hamas officials said police stormed an apartment in Gaza City where Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, was being held by members of a small Islamic group that had kidnapped him on Thursday. Arrigoni was dead and the apartment was otherwise empty, the officials said. Hatem Moussa, AP International ...
Hamas Gov't Official Appeals to Israeli Public for Cease-Fire
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- A senior Hamas government official in Gaza has gone on Israel Radio to make a rare direct appeal to the Israeli public for a halt in the current round of fighting. Hamas' deputy foreign minister, Ghazi Hamad, told the radio station Sunday that the group would cease its attacks on southern Israel if Israel halts its military operations against Gaza militants. Hamad said that "we are interested in calm but want the Israeli military to stop its operations." The bitter enemies have been locked in heavy fighting in recent days. Earlier Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
Israel Pounds Hamas Targets in Gaza for Third Day
By not in system - AOL NewsGAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israel pounded Hamas targets in Gaza with air strikes and tank shells Saturday, killing four militants, Palestinian officials said, as Palestinian missiles reached deeper into Israel in the most intense round of fighting since the Gaza war. In all, 18 Gazans have been killed and more than 65 wounded since Israel unleashed the strikes following a Hamas attack on an Israeli school bus Thursday. An anti-tank rocket struck the bus, seriously wounding a 16-year-old boy and injuring the driver. Eyad Baba, AP A Palestinian boy inspects the damage following an ...
Israel Strikes Hard in Gaza After School Bus Hit
By not in system - AOL NewsGAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israeli aircraft and tanks pounded Gaza on Friday, killing seven Hamas militants and five civilians in a surge of fighting sparked by a Palestinian rocket attack on an Israeli school bus the day before. Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers seemed on the brink of another round of intense violence, just a little over two years after a three-week war in which persistent rocket fire from Gaza triggered a devastating Israeli military offensive in the territory. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attack on the school bus "crossed a line" and warned that "whoever ...
Missile Hits Israeli School Bus; Israel Responds With Strikes on Gaza
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- An Israeli teenager was critically wounded when an anti-tank missile hit a school bus near the Gaza border, and Israel responded today with airstrikes on Gaza that killed at least one Palestinian. The cross-border violence was the latest increase in tension between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement, which controls Gaza, and raised fears of a new cycle of violence. "The boy was lying on the ground bleeding," a member of the rescue services told the Haaretz newspaper. "The bus driver was conscious and hysterical. The entire bus was destroyed; it was a horrifying ...
Palestinian Allegedly Kidnapped by Israel Indicted as Hamas Member
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Israeli prosecutors today indicted a Palestinian engineer dubbed "the father of the rockets" on charges of helping the Islamist Hamas movement develop rockets in Gaza. In a mysterious case that has riveted Israel, Dirar Abu Sisi says he was kidnapped during a visit to Ukraine in February and moved secretly to Israel. He was indicted after being held in custody for 40 days. "Abu Sisi was engaged in the development of missiles to be launched by Hamas, including increasing their range and ability to pierce steel so as to penetrate armored vehicles and thus strike at soldiers," the ...
Israeli Officials Celebrate After Goldstone Rethinks War Crimes Report
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Israeli officials feel vindicated after Judge Richard Goldstone retracted part of his harsh criticism of Israel's conduct in Gaza two years ago, and have launched a major diplomatic effort to get the United Nations to rescind the Goldstone Report. "I found it hard to believe that Judge Goldstone, a Jew and even a Zionist, could have really believed that Israel would deliberately target Palestinian civilians," Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon told a group of journalists, including AOL News, by phone. "He must have been influenced by Arab propaganda." Ashraf Amra, ...
Israeli Airstrike Kills Gaza Militants
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli aircraft killed 3 Palestinian militants who were planning to abduct Israelis over the upcoming Jewish festival of Passover, the military said early Saturday. An Israeli military spokeswoman said that an "aircraft had fired at a terror squad of the terror group Hamas that was planning to carry out kidnappings." She said the group was plotting the attacks for the Jewish festival of Passover later this month. The group was planning to carry out the attacks in Israel as well as in the popular Egyptian resort of Sinai, she said. Witnesses said a missile fired from an ...
Study: Young Israelis Leaning More Conservative
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- A survey released today finds young Israelis are moving to the right politically, as peace talks with the Palestinians remain stalled and the Middle East erupts around them. The study finds that 60 percent of Jewish teenagers between the ages of 15 and 18 prefer "strong" leaders to the rule of law. It also finds that in cases where state security and democratic values conflict, 70 percent of teenagers believe security should come first. Ariel Schalit, AP Israeli settlers and their supporters wave Israeli flags March 13 in Tel Aviv as they protest the killing of five ...
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