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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 561

Zuhair al-Qaissi

A Hamas security official at the Egypt-Gaza border near Rafah (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
March 21, 2012, 12:57 pm
Hamas man held for Sinai terror-kidnap plot
Muhammad Abu Adra had surveyed Israeli army activities at Taba border crossing
By Aaron Kalman
Cleaning up after a Grad rocket fired from Gaza hits the center of Ashdod last Monday. (photo credit: Flash90)*
March 17, 2012, 5:24 pm
Southern schools reopen Sunday
No rockets fired into Israel from Gaza since Friday evening
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian fires in the air during the funeral of Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza City (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)
March 16, 2012, 12:20 pm
Islamic Jihad: We are committed to upholding truce
Terror group says lingering rocket attacks are not its doing
By Joshua Davidovich
An Israeli woman stand near the entrance to her house in a Gaza border kibbutz, hit by a Kassam rocket earlier this week. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
March 15, 2012, 1:24 pm
Netivot parents rush to get kids after rocket lands near school
Hamas blames Islamic Jihad for breaching ceasefire; Israeli ministers say situation in south ‘unacceptable’
By Stuart Winer
Palestinian fire fighters try to extinguish a blaze at a burning factory after an Israeli missile strike in the east of the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday. (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90
March 14, 2012, 8:47 pm
Why has the international community largely refrained from bashing Israel over Gaza?
Against an unusually quiet global backdrop, politicians here are now arguing about who’s at fault for the terrorists in Gaza and what can be done to get rid of them
By Raphael Ahren
Ramadan Abdullah Shalah (right), head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, meets with former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran, February 2007 (AP/ Ebrahim Seyyedi Office of the Iranian President)
March 13, 2012, 11:15 pm
As schools in south reopen Wednesday, PM warns Gaza terror groups to keep quiet
Netanyahu: Whoever tries to hurt us, we will find him; Islamic Jihad leader to Gaza ‘victory rally’: The battle is over but the war goes on
By ToI Staff and AP
IDF Chief of General Staff Benny Gantz in 2012. (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)
March 13, 2012, 5:29 pm
Gaza’s strategic repercussions
What did Benny Gantz mean when he spoke of the vital need to thwart Zuhair al-Qaissi?
By David Horovitz
IDF Chief of the General Staff Benny Gantz (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
March 13, 2012, 10:57 am
Chief of staff praises Israelis’ resilience but warns that ‘our enemies are getting stronger’
While confirming apparent Gaza ceasefire, Gantz says IDF will continue ‘to act against any threat’
By David Horovitz
Islamic Jihad's spokesman Abu Ahmed vows to continue fighting (Photo credit: image capture Channel 2 News)
March 12, 2012, 6:18 pm
Why no Gaza ceasefire
The terror gangs want immunity from further Israeli strikes; they’re not going to get it
By David Horovitz
Palestinians mourning in Gaza on Saturday (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)
March 12, 2012, 8:10 am
On Gaza, Palestinians feel very much alone
Analysts bemoan Arab preoccupation with other, more burning matters
By Elhanan Miller
An Israeli soldier examines a house hit by a mortar shell in March (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
March 12, 2012, 1:09 am
Israel seeks UN condemnation of rocket fire
Deputy Ambassador says international community must stop the firing of rockets at civilians
By Aaron Kalman
An Iron Dome launcher deployed next to Ashkelon (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90 )
March 11, 2012, 11:03 pm
Iron Dome — the newly beloved missile defense system that nobody wanted
How a misfit defense minister pushed through a project that defied the IDF’s offensive spirit, and that proved crucial in the latest Gaza-Israel hostilities
By Mitch Ginsburg
March 11, 2012, 10:43 pm
‘Terror group was warned by Egypt of planned assassination’
Ynet reports Egyptian officials warned Popular Resistance Committees of Israel’s intention to take out leader al-Qaissi
By Michal Shmulovich
Zuhair al-Qaissi, Secretary-General of the Popular Resistance Committees, who was killed on Friday, March 9, in an Israeli air strike on his car in Gaza. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)
March 11, 2012, 5:25 pm
Beyond the Gaza headlines
Numbers, context and the choice now facing Hamas
By David Horovitz
March 11, 2012, 11:55 am
Iron Dome provides some southern comfort
The escalation in the south is the main story, with papers plugging Israel’s anti-missile system and some wondering whether this is the start of Cast Lead II
By Joshua Davidovich
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