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Israeli Military Strike Kills 4, Injures 13 in Gaza Strip

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- An Israeli military strike aimed at Palestinian militants missed its target Tuesday, killing three children and their uncle and wounding 13 other family members as they played soccer in their backyard in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said. Adel Hana, AP Palestinians carry a body...

Dancing Israeli Soldiers Face Possible Discipline

(July 7) -- Israeli soldiers who were seen in a widely viewed YouTube video doing a dance routine while on patrol in a West Bank city may face disciplinary action, according to Israeli media reports. The video, which authorities yanked off the site, is reminiscent of another clip posted on YouTube earlier this year...

Israeli Soldier Indicted in Gaza Offensive

JERUSALEM (July 6) - The Israeli military indicted a soldier Tuesday on a charge of manslaughter during last year's war in the Gaza Strip - the most serious criminal charge to come out of an internal investigation into the devastating offensive in the Hamas-ruled territory. The soldier was among three troops, including a...

Israeli Inquiry Finds Fault in Turkish Ship Takeover

JERUSALEM (June 20) -- The Israeli navy's internal investigation into last month's Israeli takeover of a Turkish-flagged ship bound for Gaza has found serious defects in the way the operation was planned and the intelligence made available to the navy commandos. But it found that the officers acted properly based on the...

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Robert Naiman: On Iran Strike, Israelis Trust Obama Over Bibi

A funny thing happened on the way to the Showdown at the AIPAC Corral, where pro-war Republicans and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been planning to ambush President Obama with charges of being "soft on Iran" because U.S. military commanders have said that an Israeli military attack on Iran would be a very...

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Strategic Thinking Needed to Juggle Israeli-Palestinian Equation

On the very day that the New York Times reported that the Israeli military had demolished the homes of Palestinians in the Jordan Valley in order to clear the area to consolidate Israeli control, that very same military was being rebuffed in its efforts to remove an illegal Jewish settler outpost in that very same occupied...

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06/01/12 Israeli soldier, Palestinian killed near G... Source: Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian militant were killed during an exchange of fire near the Gaza border early on Friday, the Israeli military said.
04/24/11 Man killed near West Bank holy site Source: American Drycleaner An Israeli man was killed and four others were wounded early Sunday morning near Joseph's Tomb, a Jewish holy site in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, an Israeli military spokesman said.
04/09/11 Rising violence in Gaza leads to fears of another... Source: CNN International Increased violence between Gaza-based militants and the Israeli military entered its third day Saturday amidst growing fears that the escalation could bring about large-scale Israeli military action.

Background on israeli military

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; , lit. "Defensive Army for Israel"; ), commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym Tzahal (), are the military forces of the State of Israel.

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