The Israeli military struck Gaza's Shijaiyah neighborhood, leveling a building complex, approximately 20 minutes before the beginning of a 12-hour ceasefire.
It fails to destroy all but a few of the rockets that Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups fire at Israeli communities. But Israel's early-warning civil-defense systems have proved highly effective.
Can any people or ethnic group of today return to the place where their ancestors originated with the idea of displacing its current residents and making their own State? No one would approve of such an idea.
Two reporters for major US TV channels were summarily "removed" last week from covering Israel's attack on Gaza, moments before Israel launched a ground invasion.
Yael Even Or is an Israeli journalist and activist who, during her service, evaluated candidates for the recruitment department of the Israeli army. She currently lives in New York City.
The US Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday renewed its ban on American flights to Tel Aviv for another 24 hours, citing the "potentially hazardous situation" in Israel and Gaza.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Gordon Duff, senior editor with Veterans Today from Ohio, about Israeli forces using poisonous gas against people in Gaza Strip.
Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, seized on the murder in June of three Jewish teenagers from a West Bank settlement to launch Israel's third war against Gaza in six years.
This kind of thing has been happening ever since the fighting started – just as it happened all those other times the Israelis have taken out their sadistic impulses on Gaza's sitting ducks.
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Netanyahu's office says purpose of mission is to destroy terror tunnels and seriously harm the infrastructure of Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Gaza.
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At this writing, one Israeli has been killed by Hamas fire; hundreds of Hamas rockets have either fallen harmlessly or been destroyed by Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile defense.