Journalists In Gaza Shaken As Blasts Go Off All Around Them (VIDEO)
Journalists found themselves once again caught up in the ongoing violence in Gaza on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. The media has become increasingly affected by the fighting between Hamas and...
View ArticleIsrael Study Abroad Programs Take Measures To Protect American Students Amid...
The escalating conflict in Gaza has caused some American students studying abroad in Israel to head for cover in bomb shelters, while others are evacuating to Europe. Diplomats are attempting to...
View ArticleIsrael-Gaza Conflict: Clinton Seeks Truce In Cairo After Bus Bombing In Tel...
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller GAZA/JERUSALEM, Nov 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday pursued a Gaza truce, with Israel and Hamas still at odds over key...
View ArticleIsrael 'Spies' Killed In Gaza: Moussa Abu Marzouk, Hamas Leader Decries...
GAZA, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Hamas's deputy leader has condemned the "unlawful" killing of six Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who were suspected of giving information to Israel. Moussa Abu Marzouk, in...
View ArticleObama Commends Gaza Ceasefire Agreement
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is hailing a ceasefire agreement to end a week of fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. The White House says Obama talked to Israeli Prime...
View ArticleAl Jazeera Cairo Office Firebombed By Egyptian Protesters
CAIRO -- Egyptian protesters firebombed one of the offices of satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera on Wednesday and attacked a police chief who tried to negotiate an end to three days of violent protests...
View ArticleGaza Rockets From Iran's Technology, Iranian General Says
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran has supplied Hamas in Gaza with the technology to "quickly" produce longer-range missiles on their own without needing direct shipments, said a report Wednesday that quoted the...
View ArticleMorsi's Gaza Ceasefire Deal Role Secures Egypt's President As Major Player
CAIRO -- The Gaza cease-fire deal reached Thursday marks a startling trajectory for Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi: an Islamist leader who refuses to talk to Israelis or even say the country's name...
View ArticleIsrael-Gaza Ceasefire: Hamas And Israel Reportedly Agree To Truce
GAZA, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Israel and the Islamist militant group Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a Gaza ceasefire deal, said a Palestinian official with knowledge of Egyptian mediation between the two...
View ArticleIsrael 'Media Bunker' Peppers Internet With Propaganda Tweets And Facebook...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government is trying to pre-empt a publicity pounding over its Gaza offensive by aggressively pushing out its version of events, furiously tweeting and Facebook posting...
View ArticleIsrael-Hamas Peace Agreement Text
CAIRO, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Following is the verbatim English text of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza that was reached on Wednesday with Egyptian mediation. The text...
View ArticleIsrael-Gaza Conflict Winners And Losers (PHOTOS)
JERUSALEM -- After eight days of the fiercest fighting in years, a cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers could usher in a new era of relations between the bitter foes....
View ArticleNetanyahu's Gaza Conflict Talk Tough, Walk Cautious
By Crispian Balmer JERUSALEM, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Just hours after a bomb exploded on a Tel Aviv bus, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a truce with the very people his government...
View ArticleIron Dome Gaza Rocket Shootdowns Cost Israel $25-$30 Million
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Israel's Iron Dome interceptions of Palestinian rockets during eight days of Gaza fighting cost $25 million to $30 million, the government said on...
View ArticleMohammed Badei, Egypt Muslim Brotherhood Leader, Blasts Israel-Gaza Peace Deal
CAIRO -- The top leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood denounced peace efforts with Israel and urged holy war to liberate Palestinian territories on Thursday – one day after the country's president,...
View ArticleIsrael-Gaza Conflict: Ceasefire Holds As Gazans Clean Up
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Gaza residents cleared rubble and claimed victory on Thursday, just hours after an Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers ended the worst cross-border...
View ArticleMahmoud Abbas Determined To Get Palestinian U.N. Statehood Bid, Aides Say
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- After bitter rival Hamas held its own in a fierce battle with Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has no choice but to override U.S. objections and seek U.N. recognition...
View ArticleGaza Cease Fire: Israeli Gunfire Kills 1 Palestinian, Wounds 19 Near Border
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man and wounded 19 people as crowds surged toward Gaza's border fence with Israel on Friday, a health official said, the first violence...
View ArticleGaza Weapons Smuggling Will Not Stop, Moussa Abu Marzouk, Hamas No. 2, Says
CAIRO -- Gaza's ruling Hamas will not stop arming itself, the No. 2 in the Palestinian group told The Associated Press on Saturday, signaling tough challenges ahead for indirect negotiations between...
View ArticleGaza Border Blockade Eased After Israel-Hamas Ceasefire
CAIRO — Gaza's ruling Hamas will not stop arming itself, the No. 2 in the Palestinian group told The Associated Press on Saturday, signaling tough challenges ahead for indirect negotiations between...
View ArticleIsrael's Gaza Internet Chokehold Stokes Fears Of Shutdown
From his base in the Gaza Strip, Majed Abusalama has employed social media to ensure that the rest of the world gets a real-time picture of what is unfolding. He has tweeted incessantly, chronicling...
View ArticleHillary Clinton: Israel-Gaza Truce 'In Days Ahead'
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The United States signalled on Tuesday that a Gaza truce could take days to achieve after Hamas, the Palestinian enclave's ruling Islamist militants,...
View ArticleIsrael Hits Agence France-Presse Building In Gaza Airstrike
Israel's strikes on buildings housing journalists in Gaza continued on Tuesday night, when the Israeli Air Force targeted a tower containing the offices of Agence France-Presse. Sara Hussein, a...
View ArticleGaza-Egypt Border Crossing A Critical Point Of Israel-Hamas Conflict
RAFAH, Gaza Strip -- Computerized passport control points, shiny marble floors and framed photos of beaches greet arrivals at Gaza's Rafah terminal along the Egyptian frontier. The $1.4 million...
View ArticleGaza Cease-Fire Violation Sinful, Cleric Rules
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- A leading Islamic cleric in the Gaza Strip has ruled it a sin to violate the recent cease-fire between Israel and the Hamas militant group that governs the Palestinian...
View ArticleIsrael-Gaza Conflict: Reporters Without Borders Condemns Israeli Strikes
PARIS — Reporters Without Borders has condemned Israeli missile attacks on two media centers in Gaza that wounded six Palestinian journalists and damaged the equipment of foreign media outlets....
View ArticleIsrael-Gaza Conflict 2011: U.S., Britain Warn Of Israeli Ground War
BANGKOK -- The U.S. and Britain on Sunday warned about the risks of Israel expanding its air assault on the Gaza Strip into a ground war, while vigorously defending the Jewish state's right to protect...
View ArticleIsrael-Gaza Fighting Reflects New Battleground
A picture taken from the southern Israeli Gaza border shows smoke billowing from a spot targeted by an Israeli air strike inside the Gaza strip on November 16, 2012. Israeli warplanes carried out...
View ArticleGershon Baskin, Israeli Activist, Explains Truce Plan Given To Ahmed Jabari...
Gershon Baskin is the founder of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, an NGO and think tank established in 1988 to pursue a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....
View ArticleIsrael-Gaza Conflict 2012: Rockets Fired Toward Jerusalem From Gaza Land On...
JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian rocket struck the outskirts of Jerusalem on Tuesday, landing harmlessly in an open area in one of the longest rocket strikes fired from the Gaza Strip in nearly a week of...
View ArticleGaza Hospitals Overwhelmed After Israeli Airstrikes, WHO Says
An injured Palestinian child lies on a hospital bed following an Israeli air raid in Beit Lahia, the northern Gaza Strip on November 17, 2012. Israeli air strikes hit the cabinet headquarters of...
View ArticleTurkey's Prime Minister Calls Israel's Gaza Offensive 'Terrorism' And...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's prime minister is accusing Israel's leaders of trying to eliminate the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Israel's actions cannot be...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Middle East: President Obama Sends Secretary Of State To...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- President Barack Obama is sending Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Middle East in hopes that she can help mediate an end to bloody conflict in the region. A...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Middle East: President Obama Sends Secretary Of State To...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Efforts to end a week-old convulsion of Israeli-Palestinian violence drew in the world's top diplomats on Tuesday, with President Barack Obama dispatching his secretary of...
View ArticleTel Aviv Target Of Rocket
TEL AVIV, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Sirens sounded in Tel Aviv on Saturday, signalling a rocket attack on the city, and an explosion was heard, witnesses said. A cloud of smoke was seen in the sky over the...
View ArticleBenjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, Could Benefit From Gaza...
JERUSALEM -- Throughout his long political career, Israel's prime minister has earned a reputation as a tough talker. An ardent hawk who wrote a book about how to defeat terrorism, Benjamin Netanyahu...
View ArticleForeign Journalists Pour Into Gaza To Cover Conflict
On Monday, NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin " target="_hplink"> told The Huffington Post that one of the major differences in covering the Israel-Gaza conflict now, versus the Israeli...
View ArticleEgypt President Mohammed Morsi: Gaza Truce Deal Will Be Reached On Tuesday
CAIRO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi said on Tuesday that "Israeli aggression" against Gaza would end later in the day, the Egyptian state news agency MENA reported. "President...
View ArticleGaza Conflict: Hezbollah Stays On Sidelines Amid Israel-Hamas Violence
BEIRUT -- While the death toll from the Israel-Gaza conflict has mounted, Hezbollah has offered quiet words of encouragement to the Palestinians, pledging support and calling on Arab states to send...
View ArticlePro-Palestinian Rally: Chicago Protesters Gather In Plaza To Decry Civilian...
Protesters demonstrate against Israeli attacks on Gaza on November 19, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Several hundred people joined the protest which started with a rally in the Federal Building Plaza and...
View ArticlePalestinian Journalists Talk To HuffPost Live About Gaza Conflict (VIDEO)
HuffPost Live talked to four Palestinian journalists on Tuesday about their lives and their perspectives on the Israeli-Gaza conflict. The journalists are all in New York as part of a United Nations...
View ArticleIsrael Airstrikes Kill Three Palestinian Journalists
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The head of the Hamas-run Al Aqsa TV station says an Israeli airstrike killed two cameramen after they wrapped up an assignment at Gaza's Shifa Hospital, while a Gaza...
View ArticleIsrael Gaza Attacks Intensify Despite Truce Talks
JERUSALEM -- A diplomatic push to end Israel's nearly weeklong offensive in the Gaza Strip gained momentum Tuesday, with Egypt's president predicting that airstrikes would end within hours and...
View ArticleIsrael, Gaza Ceasefire Agreed To, Hamas Official Says, Israel Denies
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller GAZA/JERUSALEM, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A Hamas official said on Tuesday Egypt had brokered a Gaza ceasefire deal that would go into effect within hours, but a...
View ArticleMaryland Gov. Martin O'Malley's Middle East Trip Postponed Due To Gaza Strip...
Gov. Martin O'Malley has postponed his planned post-Thanksgiving economic development trip to the Middle East, saying he does not want to create a distraction during the conflict between Israel and...
View ArticleIsrael, Gaza Ceasefire Agreed To, Hamas Official Says
GAZA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Israel and militants from the Gaza Strip have agreed to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire that will come into force at midnight local (2200 GMT), Hamas official Ayman Taha said,...
View ArticleLebanon Dismantles Rockets Aimed At Israel
BEIRUT -- Lebanese military experts on Monday dismantled two Katyusha rockets that were equipped with timers and ready to fire at Israel, a senior Lebanese security official said. The official said...
View ArticleIsrael-Gaza Truce Deal Close, Hamas Official Says
JERUSALEM -- A senior Hamas official says his group is close to a cease-fire with Israel, but a deal has not yet been reached. Moussa Abu Marzouk said Tuesday from Cairo that "we haven't struck the...
View ArticleRhode Island Gay Marriage Victory Propelled By Coordinated Strategy
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Phone banks, an army of volunteers and alliances with organized labor, business leaders and religious clergy propelled gay marriage to victory in Rhode Island this week, a savvy and...
View ArticleObama Congress Joke: Hot Mic Catches President Saying 'Good To Get Away' In...
Even presidents need to get away for a little bit. President Barack Obama landed in Tel Aviv, Israel Wednesday, to greetings on the tarmac by Israeli officials and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....
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