By Adam Shatz The ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas in Cairo after eight days of fighting is merely a pause in the Israel-Palestine conflict. It promises to ease movement at all border crossings with the Gaza Strip, but will not lift the blockade. It requires Israel to end its assault on the Strip, and Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets at southern Israel, but it leaves Gaza as miserable as eve ...

Poated:  Zaheerul Hassan November 18, 2012 "Al Jazeera" --- Al Jazeera's Nadim Baba, reporting from Gaza, has said that the search continues for survivors of an Israeli air strike that killed nine members of the same family in Gaza. Our correspondent said rescue workers worked frantically to pick up the debris from "the massive crater where the residential building stood". Five children were among the nine ...

Israel made history Wednesday when it began live-tweeting its own strike on the Gaza Strip. Now that the initial shock is over, the questions are setting in: Are governments allowed to use Twitter that way? And even if they can, should they? A rumor widely circulated Thursday morning claimed that the Israel Defense Forces’ Twitter account, @IDFSpokesperson, went down for a 40-minute period, but neither Twit ...

Israel on Wednesday launched the most ferocious & brutal assault on Gaza in four years, hitting at least 20 targets in aerial attacks that killed many innocent including children and women, damaged Israel’s fragile relations with Egypt and escalated the risks of a new war in the Middle East. The Israel Defense Forces coupled the intensity of the airstrikes with the threat of a ground invasion of Gaza, r ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Israel's army said that three Israeli soldiers were wounded Tuesday morning when an explosive device planted by the border fence in the southern Gaza Strip close to the town of Khan Younis detonated near their vehicle. One soldier suffered a moderate limb injury and was evacuated by helicopter to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. Two other were lightly wounded in the blast an ...