Operation Cast Lead

The Israel Defense Forces' chief rabbi told students in a pre-army yeshiva program last week that soldiers who "show mercy" toward the enemy in wartime will be "damned." Brig....

Reports from Israel claim that the authorities have disciplined two army officers for their role in last year's "Operation Cast Lead" in Gaza. According to Haaretz newspaper, the news...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESGaza's Engineering Department has begun exploding remnant white phosphorous shells dropped on the Strip by the Israeli occupation during its assault in 2008/9. The highly incendiary explosives, controversial...

Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni has criticized Benyamin Netanyahu's government for "searching for superficial issues and ignoring the essence" while running Israel's affairs. According to the ex-Foreign Minister, the...

A UN report has highlighted the escalation of Israeli aggression against Palestinian children in March and April this year. Issued by UNICEF, the report alleges that Israeli hostility against...

Diplomatic sources inside Egypt's Foreign Ministry have reported that the country's Foreign Minister has sent a strongly-worded letter to Rafi Barak, the Director-General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, warning...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On International Civil Defence Day, it is clear that civil defence in Gaza has a very different status and meaning than in most other parts of the...

The Foreign Ministry in Gaza has called on the international community to live up to its responsibility to protect the Palestinian people, and "not to remain silent about what's...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Doctors in Gaza have commemorated their colleagues who were killed by Israel during "Operation Cast Lead" two years ago. The group staged a protest to mark the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Police officers in Gaza have gathered to remember fallen colleagues who were among the first victims of Israeli bombs during Operation Cast Lead two years ago. The...

A senior officer in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has claimed that the UN's Goldstone Report on Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip two years ago is unlikely to...

The diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks have revealed that Ehud Barak told a US Congressional delegation in June 2009 that he tried to coordinate Operation Cast Lead, the invasion...

The Israeli human rights organisation, B'Tselem, has expressed its objections to Israeli Security Minister, Ehud Barak's appointment of General Yoav Gallant to the position of Chief of Staff in...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES As the Muslim world welcomes the holy month of Ramadan, orphans in Gaza remember their parents and loved ones who were killed during Operation Cast Lead. Children...

The Jordanian government is "studying appropriate measures" to take after its Field Hospital in the Gaza Strip was hit by an Israeli missile on Tuesday. One of the rooms...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has called on the representatives of its member states at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to convene an emergency meeting to discuss...

A specialist in Israeli affairs has ruled out a major Israeli military operation against the Gaza Strip similar to Operation Cast Lead in 2008-9. Barhoum Gracie said that through...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Living under Israeli occupation, Palestinians face numerous difficulties in their daily lives. The health sector is among the most affected arenas as there are Palestinian casualties on...

On Tuesday, media sources reported that the prominent Jordanian tribe, A-Obeidat , has vowed to disown one of its own – the diplomat Walid A-Obeidat, should he agree to...

Israeli prosecutors have dropped a manslaughter charge against a soldier in the Israel Defence Forces for killing two Palestinian women during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. The unnamed sergeant...

The head of the Palestinian government in Gaza has confirmed his belief that Hamas "will hold on to Khaled Meshaal" as the head of the Islamic Resistance Movement's Political...

The Moroccan group Initiative for Support and Victory has organised an arts festival in the capital Rabat to commemorate the third anniversary of Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" against the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian farmers in Gaza are in the midst of harvesting a successful production of citrus fruit. Palestinian officials toured the land, and were given a variety of the...

A former head of Mossad said on Tuesday that the recent truce with Hamas does not mean the end of fighting; the Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, reported. Efraim Halevy,...

December 27th 2012 is the fourth anniversary of the Israeli assault on Gaza, known in Israel as "Operation Cast Lead" and in Palestine as "The Battle of al-Furqan'. Many...

An international conference has concluded that Israel started the November offensive against the Gaza Strip and that another attack will take place "soon". Participants at the "War on Gaza –...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES An Israeli human rights organisation has criticised its government's reduction of the fishing limit for Gaza's fishermen from six to three nautical miles. "This constitutes collective punishment...

The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on Thursday that the Israeli army has decided to stop using artillery shells containing the incendiary material white phosphorus following a wave of international...

80 per cent of those killed by Israeli forces killed during the last four days of the war waged on the Gaza Strip in November were uninvolved civilians, Israeli...

Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert has said he does not want to live in a "racist state which controls millions of Palestinians through oppression and racism but...

An American expert on international affairs has said that he regards Israel's offensive against the Gaza Strip as an example of the kind of strategic blunder which harms Washington's...

"If Europe does not take political action to bring about the end of the siege, we are culpable"Israel's consistent breaches of international law were the focus of a debate...