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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 ...
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 ...
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 2 Gaza Militants
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Israeli aircraft struck a Palestinian rocket squad in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing two militants as the military prepared to activate a new defense system to shoot down incoming rockets. Islamic Jihad, a militant group that frequently attacks Israel, confirmed two members were killed in the airstrike, while a third was critically wounded. The group did not specify whether they were in the process of launching rockets. Gaza militants, including Islamic Jihad and the territory's Hamas rulers, had said over the weekend that they would halt their fire if Israel did. It was not ...
Gaza Militants Rocket Israel, Drawing Reprisals
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Israeli aircraft struck the Gaza Strip on Thursday in response to militant rocket and mortar attacks, stoking concerns that a grave new round of hostilities will fill the vacuum left by an impasse in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Two years of relative calm have been unraveling in recent weeks with acts of violence against Israelis -- including a deadly bombing in Jerusalem on Wednesday that killed an unidentified female British tourist -- and Israeli reprisals against Gaza militants, which in one case killed four Palestinian civilians. Militants operating near the Israeli ...
Newest Exchange Between Gaza Militants, Israel Leaves 1 Dead
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Gaza militants barraged southern Israel with rockets and mortars Wednesday, drawing retaliatory Israeli airstrikes in an escalation of the gravest hostilities in the area since Israel went to war in the Palestinian territory two years ago. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed decisive action against militants and suggested that future operations would not be surgical. "No state would tolerate ongoing rocket fire on its cities and its citizens, and the state of Israel obviously will not tolerate it," Netanyahu told parliament. A text message from Gaza's Hamas rulers ...
Hamas Fires Dozens of Rockets; Israel Responds With Strikes
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Palestinian militants in Gaza fired more than 50 rockets into Israel on Saturday, the heaviest barrage in two years, Israeli officials said, while Hamas police beat up and confiscated equipment from reporters. A Hamas official was killed and four civilians were wounded when Israel hit back with tank fire and air strikes, said Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Adham Abu Salmia. Majed Hamdan, AP Palestinians help an injured Hamas security forces member after Israeli strikes, into Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Saturday, March 19, 2011. Israeli police say ...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to Visit Gaza, Won't Run for Re-Election
By not in system - AOL NewsRAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian president offered on Wednesday to visit the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip for the first time in four years in a bid to help reunite the rival Palestinian governments. Hamas welcomed the offer. Mahmoud Abbas said he'd be prepared to make the trip within the coming week. Gaza's prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, invited Abbas on Tuesday to visit following parallel rallies in Gaza and the West Bank urging the rival Palestinian leaderships to reunite. Majdi Mohammed, AP Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday in a speech before senior members of ...
Israel Seizes Ship With Iranian Arms Destined for Gaza
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsRAMALLAH, West Bank -- Israeli commandos boarded and seized a Liberian-flagged ship that Israel says was carrying "tons" of weapons from Syria to Egypt. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the weapons originated in Iran and were on their way to Gaza, which is ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement. "'We are currently collecting information, and the one thing that is certain is that these weapons are from Iran with a relay station in Syria," Netanyahu said. "It is our right and duty to stop the smuggling of these weapons." Israeli naval officials said they found several anti-ship ...
In Memoirs, Ex-Israeli PM Regrets Failure of Peace Talks
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a "historic mistake" by rebuffing an Israeli peace offer during negotiations in 2008, Israel's former prime minister wrote in excerpts from his forthcoming memoirs published Friday. The new details from Ehud Olmert's memoirs were published days after the Arab TV station Al-Jazeera released secret documents revealing the details of the Palestinians' positions during the same negotiations, in which both sides appear to have been prepared to make major concessions. Talks have largely been deadlocked since Olmert left office in early ...
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