Gaza war, a year on

Gaza: A Story of Choices

Hamas admits it DID use schools and hospitals in Gaza Strip as 'human shields' to launch rocket attacks on Israel

Hamas admits it DID use schools and hospitals in Gaza Strip as 'human shields' to launch rocket attacks on Israel - but claims it was 'mistake'

• Official says group had no choice but to launch rockets from civilian areas
• Ghazi Hamad: safeguards taken to protect civilians but 'we made mistakes'
• He refuses to accept responsibility for deaths in retaliatory airstrikes 

By Matthew Blake for MailOnline and Associated Press

Published: 08:07 GMT, 12 September 2014 | Updated: 16:51 GMT, 12 September 2014

Israel Launches Airstrikes on Gaza After Rockets Shatter Truce

NBCNEWS

First published August 19th 2014, 8:47 pm

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip after three fired from the enclave shattered a temporary truce on Tuesday. The Israeli military said it bombed targets in the Gaza Strip in response to the renewed rocket fire, adding that "yet again, terrorists breach the ceasefire." 

Israel Exits Gaza as Truce Begins

By STEVEN ERLANGER and BEN HUBBARDAUG. 5, 2014

JERUSALEM — As a 72-hour cease-fire mediated by Egypt took hold on Tuesday, Gazans emerged to view a shattered landscape with Hamas still in power, while Israel began to debate the politics, costs and accomplishments of the monthlong war.

The brutal kidnap that killed off hopes of peace in Gaza...

The brutal kidnap that killed off hopes of peace in Gaza: UN chief blames Hamas after Israeli soldier is snatched just moments after ceasefire began - triggering a new wave of bloodshed

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Israel - Càng thắng càng thua - Hamas 'sẽ không ngừng bắn’

BBC

Israel - Càng thắng càng thua 

Tiến sĩ Nguyễn Phương Mai

Đại học Khoa học Ứng dụng Amsterdam

Cập nhật: 08:58 GMT - thứ tư, 30 tháng 7, 2014

Đã ba tuần trôi qua kể từ khi Israel chính thức đổ quân vào Gaza. Tính đến trước giờ tạm ngừng bắn, từ phía Palestine có hơn 1000 người chết, gần 800 người là thường dân. Phía Israel mất 53 mạng người, trong đó có 3 thường dân.

Tunnels Lead Right to the Heart of Israeli Fear

 #Hamas #Gaza pic.twitter.com/bLgDiq67xO

 

Middle East

By JODI RUDORENJULY 28, 2014

NEAR THE ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER — The curved concrete top of the tunnel grazes the dark-brown buzz cut of Lt. Col. Oshik Azulai, putting it 5 feet and 7 inches above the sand floor. The walls are about 30 inches apart — wide enough for two people to squeeze past each other, unless both are in body armor. It is cool in the tunnel, 46 feet under, and dark, of course. Cellphones do not work.

Second Gaza ceasefire in chaos as Israel accuses Hamas of violating its own truce... and the killing starts once more

• Hamas spokesman said truce went into effect at 2pm local time (noon UK time) today ahead of the end of Ramadan
• But Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu accused Hamas of violating it and said he will 'take action to protect our people'
• Ceasefire would have been second in two days after Israel responded to rocket fire during previous lull with air strikes
• As 2pm came and went, journalists and residents could still hear shelling in Gaza and rocket sirens in Israel
• Yesterday scores of bodies were pulled from the rubble in Gaza City raising overall Palestinian death toll to 1,060 

By Dan Bloom

Published: 11:44 GMT, 27 July 2014 | Updated: 19:01 GMT, 27 July 2014

Why Is Israel Losing a War It's Winning?

The Atlantic 

Five reasons why Israel is on the back foot even as it wins the battle against rockets and tunnels

Jeffrey Goldberg Jul 27 2014, 9:06 AM ET

 

An Israeli officer in a Hamas tunnel (Jack Guez/Reuters)

Rare photos from ‘underground Gaza’ give glimpse of tunnel threat

Photographs taken by photographer Jack Guez show tunnels dug by Hamas from Gaza into Israel. IDF troops still occupied with uncovering and destroying more tunnels: ‘Every day of combat allows us to inflict greater damage on this infrastructure.’

 

Itay Blumenthal

Published:  07.26.14, 00:46 / Israel News

Underground Gaza – An insider’s look at the enormous strategic threat posed by Gaza: A series of photos captured by photographer Jack Guez on Friday reveal a tunnel dug from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, exiting near a community.

Israel extends truce for another 24 hours despite Hamas refusal to stop rocket attacks as Gaza ruins are laid bare

• WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Palestinian death toll reaches 1,050 as scores of bodies are pulled from the rubble
• Those killed included 18 members of the same family who died in village near Khan Younis, southern Gaza
  
• Tense halt in fighting began at 6am UK time yesterday but Israel will continue searching for tunnels
• World leaders gather in Paris for crisis talks as 1,500 riot police prepare to quell pro-Palestinian protests
• Thousands march from Israeli embassy in London to the Houses of Parliament as international anger grows
• Protests in Paris break out into violence with police using batons and tear gas as last minutes of ceasefire tick by 

By Dan Bloom and Paul Donnelley

Published: 07:59 GMT, 26 July 2014 | Updated: 00:50 GMT, 27 July 2014

U.N.: Hamas, Israel may be guilty of war crimes

  #gaza pic.twitter.com/HJMVRxIFNR

By Ben Brumfield, Ian Lee and Josh Levs CNN

July 23, 2014 -- Updated 1703 GMT (0103 HKT)

Understanding What Hamas Wants

The Atlantic

Five observations about the Gaza conflict, including praise for an ex-president's insight into the particular nature of Hamas' evil

Jeffrey Goldberg Jul 18 2014, 12:13 PM ET

'In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians': Global anger grows as 15,000 protestors mass outside Israel's London embassy

• Protestors marched from Downing Street to Israeli embassy in Kensington
• Anger over Israel's ground offensive is growing as 60 die in clashes
• They chanted: 'Free, free Palestine' as police officers looked on

By Sam Webb

Published: 14:49 GMT, 19 July 2014 | Updated: 17:17 GMT, 19 July 2014

 

Thousands of protesters gathered in London today to call for an end to Israeli military action in Gaza and 'justice and freedom' for Palestine.

Gaza Situation Report

Geopolitical Weekly

Monday, July 14, 2014 - 03:01

By George Friedman

The current confrontation in Gaza began June 12 after three Israeli teenagers disappeared in the West Bank the month before. Israel announced the disappearance June 13, shortly thereafter placing blame on Hamas for the kidnappings. On June 14, Hamas fired three rockets into the Hof Ashkelon region. This was followed by Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the Jerusalem region. On July 8, the Israelis announced Operation Protective Edge and began calling up reservists. Hamas launched a longer-range rocket at Tel Aviv. Israel then increased its airstrikes against targets in Gaza.

Hamas vows that attacks will 'increase in ferocity and intensity' as they reject Egyptian-proposed ceasefire

• Palestinian militant group spoke moments after Israel accepted offer
• Armed wing said it was 'an initiative of kneeling and submission'
• Plan had called for hostilities to end today, followed by negotiations
• 185 Palestinians have died in a week of conflict in the Gaza Strip
• Israel's military said three rockets have been fired today from Gaza

By Leon Watson

Published: 07:53 GMT, 15 July 2014 | Updated: 10:25 GMT, 15 July 2014

Gaza conflict escalates

BBC
11 July 2014 Last updated at 09:28

In pictures: Gaza conflict escalates

  More than 90 people have been killed in Israeli air raids on Gaza since its current offensive began on Tuesday, Palestinian officials say.

Gaza conflict (cont. 3)

Israeli Ceasefire 'Not Even On The Agenda' Says Netanyahu, As Obama Calls For Gaza Truce

The Huffington Post UK Posted: 11/07/2014 07:56 BST  |  Updated: 11/07/2014 07:59 BST

The United States has said it is prepared to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, President Barack Obama told Israel's Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu in a phone call.