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Topic: Operation Cast Lead

May 9, 2013
10:55 am

Smoke rises from a building in the northern Gaza Strip after an Israeli airstrike on November 16 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Army accused of failing to protect civilians in Gaza op

IDF dismisses B’Tselem report on noncombatant casualties during Pillar of Defense, says soldiers exhibited ‘consummate professionalism’

By Asher Zeiger

April 26, 2013
12:18 am

An artillery piece in the north of Israel firing a shell in a 2006 drill. (Illustrative photo: Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)

IDF to halt use of white phosphorus

Israeli military’s firing of shells containing the chemical drew heavy criticism from the UN and international community

January 27, 2013
2:01 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads the weekly Cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

Netanyahu links Holocaust lessons to Iranian threat

‘The root of the issue today is not what happened, but how we can prevent it from happening again,’ says PM

By Joshua Davidovich and Ron Friedman

January 27, 2013
1:14 am

Anti-Semitic graffiti (Illustrative photo; credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Study shows growth in European anti-Semitism

Minister Yuli Edelstein, pointing to lack of significant uptick during Pillar of Defense, says incidents unrelated to Israeli policies

By Joshua Davidovich

December 27, 2012
3:38 pm

Shay Pitowsky after a performance of 'I Shall Not Hate in Tel Aviv' (photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/Times of Israel)

A Gaza doctor’s tragedy, brought to the stage by an Israeli soldier who was serving nearby

A combat reservist who served in Operation Cast Lead, exactly four years ago, has dramatized the life story of Izzeldin Abuelaish, who lost three daughters and a niece to IDF fire. The play is on now at Israel’s national theater

By Mitch Ginsburg

December 13, 2012
11:26 am

IDF soldiers train with the Tavor, an Israeli developed assault rifle (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

IDF reserve units switching to Israeli-made Tavor rifle

Gun to replace older American M-16, which the army has been phasing out in its standing infantry brigades

By Aaron Kalman

November 29, 2012
6:08 pm

Twenty conclusions from Pillar of Defense

Israel’s strategic position got a boost from Hamas’s impotence, the IDF’s response and the country’s unity under fire.

By David Bedein

November 27, 2012
7:47 am

Defense Minister Ehud Barak in the cockpit of an F-16 at the Ramat David airbase (Photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/ Ministry of Defense/ Flash 90)

The classically enigmatic farewell of Ehud Barak

The defense minister’s years in office were characterized by covert operations, a hawkish view on Iran’s nuclear program — and a clear-eyed assessment of an army’s ability to combat terror

By Mitch Ginsburg

November 22, 2012
3:24 am

A damaged residential building in Rishon Lezion is seen after it was hit by a rocket fired by militants from the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. (photo credit: Oded Balilty/AP)

For Israel, limited goals bring limited results

Jerusalem can take comfort from solid US support and Egyptian pragmatism in this round of battle, but it knows it didn’t fight, much less win, a war

By Raphael Ahren

November 21, 2012
3:12 pm

Obama has put to rest the partisan debate on Israel

The President has demonstrated unsurpassed support for Operation Pillar of Defense

By Andrew Lachman

November 19, 2012
10:46 pm

Defense Minister Ehud Barak (left) with US Ambassador Daniel Shapiro next to an Iron Dome battery on Sunday (photo credit: Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv/Flash90)

Majority of Americans support Israel’s operation in Gaza

Republicans and males are most likely to believe it’s justified, CNN poll finds

By Aaron Kalman

November 18, 2012
12:29 pm

Palestinians view the rubble of a destroyed home after Israeli air force rockets hit a Hamas official's house in the northern Gaza Strip on 17 November 2012. (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Gaza PM goes into hiding; Hamas rocket chief killed

Haniyeh heads underground after command center housing his office is bombed; 11 Hamas activists said killed on Saturday

By Stuart Winer

November 18, 2012
9:52 am

Palestinians sort through the rubble of their destroyed home after an Israeli airstrike hit a Hamas official's house in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on November 17 (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

New technology, tactics create different battleground realities in Gaza

Four years after Cast Lead, the IDF finds itself once again heavily targeting terrorists in the Strip, so far with little collateral damage

By Aron Heller

November 17, 2012
11:45 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on November 14, 2012. (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense/Flash90)

Officials say Israel ‘not interested’ in ceasefire yet, still has many Hamas targets to hit

Some in government worry that international support for assault on Gaza terror groups will quickly wane if casualties rise