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Topic: rocket fire from Gaza

April 29, 2013
5:24 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo credit: screen shot via Youtube)

Iran hasn’t crossed red line… yet, Netanyahu says

Former IDF intel chief said last week that Tehran’s nuclear program already passed threshold set by PM at the United Nations

By Aaron Kalman

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

April 7, 2013
9:45 pm

A trail of smoke is seen as a rocket is launched from the Gaza Strip toward the southern Israeli city of Sderot, November 11, 2012 (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)

Missiles fired from Gaza, marring Shoah remembrance ceremony

Two rockets fall in Strip, one hits open area in Shaar Hanegev region; no injuries or damage

By Asher Zeiger

April 3, 2013
2:03 pm

Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry, October, 2012. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

UN envoy urges calm as southern border heats up

Robert Serry condemns rocket attacks from Gaza, calls for restraint, as cross-border fire threatens to shatter fragile peace

By Stuart Winer

March 28, 2013
10:01 am

Workers on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing into the Gaza Strip, December 2011 (photo credit Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel reopens Gaza border crossings

Terminals were closed by the IDF last Thursday in response to rocket fire

By AP and Times of Israel staff

March 23, 2013
5:32 am

A Hamas police officer stands in front of graffiti showing late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City in July. (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Hamas files complaint with Cairo over fishing ban

Mujahideen Shura Council, al-Qaeda-linked group responsible for Thursday’s rocket barrage, says Hamas arrested two of its members

By Ilan Ben Zion

March 21, 2013
4:14 pm

Moshe Ya'alon in January (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Defense minister shuts Gaza gateways due to rockets

Newly appointed Moshe Ya’alon says border crossings will return to full operation only when security considerations allow

By Stuart Winer

March 4, 2013
5:05 pm

Trucks at the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel-Gaza crossing shut after reported Hamas takeover

Until now, Kerem Shalom entry point has been operated by a concessionaire on behalf of the Palestinian Authority

By Asher Zeiger and Elhanan Miller

December 24, 2012
9:48 am

File photo of Islamic Jihad members in Gaza preparing to launch rockets (photo credit: CC BY-SA Amir Farshad Ebrahimi, Flickr)

Human Rights Watch blasts Hamas for targeting Israeli civilians with rockets

Scathing report by watchdog says indiscriminate fire on Israel is a war crime and calls on Gaza’s Islamist government to ‘stop unlawful attacks and punish those responsible’

By Stuart Winer

November 28, 2012
11:45 am

Israeli police remove the remains of a rocket, fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip, that landed near buildings in the coastal city of Ashkelon, Nov, 2012. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

A race for the missing rockets

Hundreds of unexploded missiles fired from Gaza now lie scattered across southern Israel

By Stuart Winer

November 26, 2012
8:46 am

Soldiers emptying out the bullets from their magazines. (photo credit: Alon)

Suddenly, a life in green

Alon, who spoke to The Times of Israel one day after being called up, documented his week of reserves, on the cusp of war in Gaza

By Alon

November 23, 2012
10:41 pm

Mosab Hassan Yousef, interviewed on Israel's Channel 2 Friday (photo credit: Channel 2 screenshot)

‘Taking down Hamas is a necessity, not just for Israel, but for humanity,’ says estranged son of terror group’s founder

‘We need to educate the Palestinian public that Israel is not the enemy,’ Mosab Hassan Yousef tells Israel’s Channel 2

By Ron Friedman

November 23, 2012
2:07 am

A Palestinian woman grasps an olive tree that was damaged in a 'price tag' attack in April (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

300 olive trees damaged in apparent ‘Price Tag’ retribution for Gaza rockets

‘Regards from Beersheba and Tel Aviv’ spray-painted near Hebron-area grove

By Ron Friedman

November 22, 2012
10:39 am

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. (photo credit:AP/Egyptian Presidency)

By negotiating a ceasefire in Gaza, US pins hopes on Egypt

Regional stability now rests on Cairo’s ability to rein in Hamas and prevent another round of conflict

By Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee

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

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