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israel
Israeli strikes in Syria prove deadly
Jewish Journal
August 21, 2015
At least one person was killed by Israeli air strikes in Syria following the firing of rockets into the Golan Heights and the Galilee.
Israel, Palestinians pull back after Gaza exchange of fire
Jewish Journal
May 27, 2015
Israel and Palestinian militants appeared to be pulling back on Wednesday from further hostilities after Israel responded with air strikes to a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip.
Rockets explode in Golan Heights; no injuries reported
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2015
Two rockets landed in the Golan Heights near the Syrian border.
For Israelis in the western Negev, each day is ‘Russian Roulette’
Jared Sichel
August 18, 2014
Paya Amirov described her life as a game of “Russian Roulette”—she can’t know whether the next minute, hour, or day will be quiet or chaotic, with the ever-present possibility of needing to drop everything and run from scorching metal and shrapnel that falls from the sky.
Humanitarian cease-fire called by Israel broken by rocket fire from Gaza
Jewish Journal
August 4, 2014
Israel’s military said it was observing a seven-hour unilateral humanitarian cease-fire.
The images missing from the Gaza war
Jewish Journal
July 31, 2014
There’s no shortage of images from the Gaza conflict. But where are the Hamas soldiers?
Israel extends Gaza humanitarian ceasefire for another 24 hours
Jewish Journal
July 26, 2014
Israel extends Gaza cease-fire for another 24 hours.
Crunch time for Gaza truce talks as death toll passes 800
Jewish Journal
July 25, 2014
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed regional leaders to nail down a Gaza cease-fire on Friday as the civilian death toll soared, and further violence flared between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Immunity and Impunity: Fear and Loathing in Gaza
David Seidenberg
July 25, 2014
“The terrorists are firing rockets from schools, from mosques, from hospitals, from heavily civilian populations. We have to try and are doing our best to minimize civilian casualties. But we cannot give our attackers immunity or impunity.”
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