The explosion occurred close enough to Stesyahu Alema to shake his apartment, where he sat with his wife and two of his five children.
Within hours of Israel\’s assassination of a top Hamas commander, the situation room sprang into action, anticipating retaliatory attacks and preparing instructions to keep civilians out of harm\’s way.
A Palestinian protester shot by Israeli troops during a protest against the Gaza operation has died.
The Lebanese Army defused two rockets aimed at northern Israel.
In some ways, Israel’s latest confrontation with Hamas looks like past conflicts in the Gaza Strip. Operation Pillar of Defense has left some key Hamas leaders dead, depleted weapons supplies and hit more than 1,000 targets in Gaza.
An Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip will not provide any long-term solution to the problem posed by the Islamist group Hamas, and this will make the government think long and hard before sending in the troops.
Three Brooklyn store owners, two of them Orthodox Jews, have been murdered at work by the same gunman, according to New York police.
Communities in southern Israel came under a steady barrage of rockets and the Israeli military said it inflicted \”severe damage on the rocket launching capabilities of terror organizations\” as its Operation Pillar of Defense neared the end of its first week.
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