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Middle East Quartet Meets as Gaza Toll Hits 23

Matt Cantor — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:28:04 CDT

With 23 Palestinians now dead in the latest Gaza conflict , the Middle East Quartet is meeting for the first time in six months in New York. Hillary Clinton, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and EU diplomat Baroness Ashton will discuss the growing violence after Israeli air...

18 Palestinians Dead in Israeli Strikes

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:35:20 CDT

Gaza and Israel continued to exchange rocket attacks for air strikes this weekend, leaving 18 Palestinians dead, four Israelis wounded, and world leaders weighing in on the latest round of Middle East violence, the Guardian reports. On the Israeli side, schools were kept closed and thousands of civilians spent hours...

Israel to Free Bombers, Killers in Soldier Swap

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:20:22 CDT

The founders of Hamas' militant wing. The organizer of a Jerusalem bombing that killed 15. A woman who lured a lovelorn Israeli teen to a Palestinian city to be murdered. All will be released in Israel's planned swap of Palestinian political prisoners for a single kidnapped Israeli solder, the New...

Israel Freeing 1K Palestinians to Bring Soldier Home

Rob Quinn — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:41:03 CDT

After more than five years as a captive of Palestinian militants, soldier Gilad Shalit will be home within days, the Israeli government says. Shalit, now 25, was 19 when he was captured during a cross-border raid in 2006, and his captivity has long been an emotional issue in Israel. To...

Gaza Militants OK Israel Cease-Fire

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:45:42 CDT

Gaza militants agreed to a cease-fire with Israel to stop spiking violence, a Hamas official said today, after a deadly attack across the Egyptian border on Israeli vehicles set off a three-day round of rapidly escalating Israeli airstrikes and rocket barrages from Gaza. The sudden flareup also threatened Israel-Egypt relations,...

Gaza Fires Rockets as Israeli Airstrikes Continue

Evann Gastaldo — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:13:20 CDT

The situation continues to get uglier in Gaza and southern Israel: Gaza militants launched rockets into Israel this morning in the latest move following yesterday's coordinated attacks against Israelis. Israel had initially retaliated against those attacks, which killed eight, with an airstrike yesterday that killed five. Israel continued those airstrikes...

Israel Retaliates, Kills 6 in Gaza

Neal Colgrass — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:16:15 CDT

Israel retaliated over terror attacks earlier today by launching airstrikes into Gaza that claimed the lives of six people, CNN reports . Palestinian authorities say the strikes, just west of Rafah near Egypt's border, killed five members of Popular Resistance Committees and the son of one member. Israeli defense forces say...

Israel Hit by Multiple Coordinated Terror Attacks

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:47:25 CDT

Assailants armed with heavy weapons, guns, and explosives launched three attacks in quick succession in southern Israel near the border with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula today, killing at least five people and wounding about a dozen more, officials say. The rare violence in that part of the country targeted a passenger...

Relief Flows as Egypt Opens Gaza Border

Sat, 28 May 2011 07:22:04 CDT

After a four-year blockade, Egypt today permanently opened the Gaza Strip's main gateway to the outside world, bringing long-awaited relief to the territory's Palestinian population and a significant achievement for the area's ruling Hamas militant group. The reopening of the Rafah border crossing eases an Egyptian blockade that has prevented...