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Hamas Gov't Official Appeals to Israeli Public for Cease-Fire

JERUSALEM -- A senior Hamas government official in Gaza has gone on Israel Radio to make a rare direct appeal to the Israeli public for a halt in the current round of fighting. Hamas' deputy foreign minister, Ghazi Hamad, told the radio station Sunday that the group would cease its attacks on southern Israel if Israel...

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...

Israel Strikes Hard in Gaza After School Bus Hit

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israeli aircraft and tanks pounded Gaza on Friday, killing seven Hamas militants and five civilians in a surge of fighting sparked by a Palestinian rocket attack on an Israeli school bus the day before. Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers seemed on the brink of another round of intense violence, just a...

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...