A Dispatch from the Israeli Occupied Land of Palestine (Part I) http://www.4thmedia.org/2014/07/a-dispatch-from-the-israeli-occupied-land-of-palestine-part-i/ July 15 2014 Day Three: Placing the besieged Arab community of East Jerusalem in a chokehold On my first morning at the hotel…
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Israeli missiles and artillery shells began striking Gaza again Friday, after a 72-hour ceasefire with Hamas, the Islamist ruling party in Gaza, ended at 8 a.m. local time. Hamas fired a barrage of about 40…
What hides under the Pillar of Cloud? The military and political leadership of Israel picks the names for their operations with great care, including in Gaza, putting a special meaning into them. In 2008-2009, it…
Palestinian fighters have downed an Israeli warplane flying over the Gaza Strip as retaliatory rocket attacks from the enclave continue to sound alarms across Israel. According to Hamas sources, the Israeli F-16 fighter jet was shot down on Friday. Meanwhile, several Israelis were injured after three rockets fired from Gaza hit the Zionist settlement of Gush Etzion in al-Quds (Jerusalem). Palestinian missiles and rockets have also hit the other Israeli cities of Tel Aviv, Eshkol, Ashdod, Ashkelon, and Be’er Sheva. In Tel Aviv, a rocket hit a commercial district while a second rocket landed 200 meters away from the American Embassy. It is the first time that Tel Aviv has come under attack in decades. Three Israeli soldiers have been injured in a rocket attack in Eshkol. Hospitals across Israel are now in state of emergency.
As expected, the escalation out of Gaza has been fast and furious with Al Arabiya reporting that the Hamas response to the operation that Israel has code named “Operation Pillar Of Cloud”, which an IDF…
Israeli expansion and occupation in the Gaza Strip is losinginternational backing, according to Matthew Gould, the British Ambassador to Tel Aviv. Gould said: “Support for Israel is starting to erode and that’s not about these people…
Israeli air strikes killed a 12-year-old boy and two other Palestinians in the Gaza Strip today as militants fired fresh volleys of rockets at southern Israel on the third day of violence triggered by the…
At least 16 Palestinians have been killed and many others wounded in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since Friday, Press TV reported. “We believe the reason behind the Israeli attack is the silence of…