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Israel Pounds Hamas Targets in Gaza for Third Day

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israel pounded Hamas targets in Gaza with air strikes and tank shells Saturday, killing four militants, Palestinian officials said, as Palestinian missiles reached deeper into Israel in the most intense round of fighting since the Gaza war. In all, 18 Gazans have been killed and more than 65...

Missile Hits Israeli School Bus; Israel Responds With Strikes on Gaza

JERUSALEM -- An Israeli teenager was critically wounded when an anti-tank missile hit a school bus near the Gaza border, and Israel responded today with airstrikes on Gaza that killed at least one Palestinian. The cross-border violence was the latest increase in tension between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement,...

Obama, Shimon Peres Discuss Middle East Peace

WASHINGTON -- As unrest sweeps the Middle East, it's more urgent than ever to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians, President Barack Obama said Tuesday after meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres. The meeting occurred even as the U.S. condemned the announcement that new Israeli apartment buildings have...

Israeli Officials Celebrate After Goldstone Rethinks War Crimes Report

JERUSALEM -- Israeli officials feel vindicated after Judge Richard Goldstone retracted part of his harsh criticism of Israel's conduct in Gaza two years ago, and have launched a major diplomatic effort to get the United Nations to rescind the Goldstone Report. "I found it hard to believe that Judge Goldstone, a Jew and...

Israeli Airstrike Kills Gaza Militants

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli aircraft killed 3 Palestinian militants who were planning to abduct Israelis over the upcoming Jewish festival of Passover, the military said early Saturday. An Israeli military spokeswoman said that an "aircraft had fired at a terror squad of the terror group Hamas that was planning to carry out...

Background on Arab Israeli conflict

The Arab–Israeli conflict (, Al-Sura'a Al'Arabi A'Israili; , Ha'Sikhsukh Ha'Yisraeli-Aravi) refers to political tensions and open hostilities between the Arab peoples and the Jewish community of the Middle East.

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