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Topic: ceasefire

April 29, 2013
6:58 am

Israeli soldiers preparing their tanks along the Israeli-Gazan border for a possible ground operation inside Gaza on the third day of Operation Pillar of Defense, November 16 (Uri Lenz/ Flash90)

Sporadic rocket fire from Gaza shows IDF’s deterrence eroding

In the five months since Pillar of Defense, 19 missiles have been fired at Israel. And while the IDF fires back at Hamas targets, those aren’t actually the right address

By Avi Issacharoff

December 29, 2012
4:47 pm

The Palestinian side of the Rafah border terminal between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. (photo credit: Sarah El Deeb/AP)

Egypt transfers thousands of tons of building materials to Gaza

20 truckloads are expected to enter the coastal strip through the Rafah crossing

December 21, 2012
6:26 pm

Gaza residents approaching the Israeli border fence, in November (photo credit: image capture from Channel 2)

Soldiers shoot at Palestinians approaching Gaza border

Five said wounded; IDF says troops fired at legs of men who failed to heed warnings

By Ron Friedman

December 2, 2012
4:23 pm

A member of Hamas's Izz A-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, November 22 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas offers clemency to Gaza collaborators

We need guns more than medicine, Hamas interior minister tells Arab world

By Elhanan Miller

November 27, 2012
8:32 pm

GOC Southern Command Maj. Gen. Tal Russo (left) and Defense Minister Ehud Barak (right) talk on a base near the border of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. (photo credit: Ben Avraham/Defense Ministry/Flash90)

Clinton powwows with Egyptian FM about Gaza ceasefire

IDF southern command chief says the Strip has been ‘totally silent’ in the aftermath of Pillar of Defense

By Aaron Kalman

November 26, 2012
8:57 am

An illustrative photo of an oil pump (Photo credit: Shutterstock images)

Oil prices drop as Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds up

After short upswing following border incident last week, the cost of a barrel continues to slide after fighting ends

November 24, 2012
9:59 am

Hamas official Izzat al-Rishq (photo credit: PressTV, YouTube screen capture)

Hamas claims truce deal says nothing about stopping the flow of weapons into Gaza

Organization’s No. 2, Moussa Abu Marzouk, says ‘there is no way’ group would stop smuggling, making arms

By Yoel Goldman and Ron Friedman

November 23, 2012
11:51 am

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip hurling rocks and attempting to breach the border fence in November 2012. (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Palestinians in Gaza hurl rocks, attempt to breach border fence

IDF fires warning shots after ‘disturbances’; Palestinian sources report one dead and six injured from Israeli fire

By Yoel Goldman

November 23, 2012
9:18 am

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi waves to a Cairo crowd in October before making a speech on the national holiday that marks Egypt's 1973 war with Israel (photo credit: AP/Egyptian Presidency)

US pins its hopes on Egypt after Gaza ceasefire

Despite lukewarm relations in recent months, Obama administration looks to Egypt’s Morsi to shepherd the peace

By Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee

November 23, 2012
4:45 am

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, November 21 (photo credit: AP/Egyptian Presidency)

US embrace of Morsi in Gaza conflict resolution shows the White House’s new detachment

American political analysts see Obama administration, while supportive of Netanyahu, deprioritizing the Israeli-Palestinian issue

By Haviv Rettig Gur

November 22, 2012
7:39 pm

Israelis hold signs protesting the ceasefire in Kiryat Malachi on Wednesday night. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

As operation against Hamas called off, many southern residents express dismay

The government should have finished what it started, say many of those hit hard by rocket fire

By Aaron Kalman

November 22, 2012
1:59 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and Defense Minister Ehud Barak announce a ceasefire with Hamas at a joint press conference in Jerusalem, on Wednesday, November 21 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Grace under (cease)fire

Monday morning quarterbacks come out in full force as Operation Pillar of Defense turns into operation let’s get elected

By Ron Friedman

November 22, 2012
5:35 am

Americans rally in support of Israel in Chicago last November. (photo credit: Courtesy JUF Chicago/JTA)

American Jewish groups welcome ceasefire

‘The people of Israel deserve to live in peace, not fear, and the violence Hamas militants have wrought upon Israeli civilians is inexcusable and unforgettable,’ says Conservative rabbinic group

By Haviv Rettig Gur

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 22, 2012
3:24 am

An Israeli pilots sits at the cockpit of his F-15 Eagle fighter jet in an Israeli Air Force Base. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israel says it ‘fulfilled all its goals,’ while Hamas hails an ‘exceptional victory’

The facts, figures and rival claims as eight days of conflict come to an end

By Raphael Ahren

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