Archive for the ‘israel’ Category
Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Israel is reportedly using artillery-fired cluster munitions in the civilian area of Lebanon. Researchers of Human Rights Watch have confirmed that a cluster munitions attack was carried out on the village Blida killing 19 civilians. Cluster munitions should not be used in a populated area, as it is quite lethal.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Israeli army accused of using Palestinian civilians as human shields...the accusation comes from an Israeli human rights group.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Hezbollah guerrillas battled Israeli troops trying to take over a key southern Lebanese stronghold on Wednesday, killing as many as 12 Israeli soldiers, Arab media reported. Lebanese officials also confirmed that four U.N. observers were killed when an Israeli airstrike struck their post the night before.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
One of the things that we can do to help the situation in Israel is to say Tehillim. Despite what you may have read today elsewhere, there should be no doubt as to the incredible powers that our Tehillim posess. Over the next couple days I will post stories about ...
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
A large number of Israel Defense Forces soldiers were wounded Wednesday in fierce gun battles with Hezbollah in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbail. The IDF was involved in efforts Wednesday to retrieve the casualties, even as the heavy clashes continued. Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
The man who heads up the United Nations exposed – not for the first time – a nasty bias towards Israel when he expressed his belief Wednesday that the Jewish state would deliberately aim at and kill UN personnel.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Hezbollah inflicted heavy casualties on Israeli troops as they battled for a key hilltop town in southern Lebanon for a fourth day Wednesday, with as many as 14 soldiers reported killed. Lebanese officials, meanwhile, confirmed that four U.N. observers were killed by an Israeli airstrike on their post Tuesday night.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Israel's envoy complains to Norway over a cartoon showing Israeli PM Ehud Olmert as a Nazi camp commander.Link
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Israeli forces kept up their offensive in Lebanon on Tuesday, with troops battling Hezbollah for control of a southern town as their jets flattened a house in an unrelated strike and killed seven civilians.Link
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Almost two weeks into its military assault on Hezbollah, Israel said Tuesday that it would occupy a strip inside southern Lebanon with ground troops until an international force could take its place.Link
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
White House officials said President Bush remains opposed to an immediate cease-fire to stop violence in the Middle East, despite personal pleas from ally Saudi Arabia that he help stop the bloodshed.Link
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
Not a simple black and white issue: Israeli air strikes are taking a tremendous toll on the civilian population in southern Lebanon, with an attack Sunday on a bus filled with women and children that left three dead and 13 injured, many of them severely.Link
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
Much has been made of the Syrian and Iranian origin of some of Hezbollah's weaponry but there has been little discussion of where Israel's weapons come from.Link
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
Israel shelled a Gaza Strip town where Palestinian militants fired rockets Monday, and hospital officials said six Palestinians were killed. The Palestinian prime minister called on the United States to pressure Israel to stop the offensive. Link
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
Israel has put its diplomatic missions abroad on high alert for possible attacks by Hizbollah or local Muslims angered by Israel's offensive against the Lebanese guerrilla group, security sources said on Monday. Link
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
The Bush administration's tacit support for Israeli military strikes on Lebanon may have increased the danger of militant retaliation against the United States and U.S. interests abroad, some experts say. Link
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Hezbollah guerrillas fired two volleys of rockets at Haifa, Israel, wounding five people and damaging shops and office buildings.Link
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Palestinian militants in Gaza fired three rockets at Israel early Sunday.Link
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Hezbollah is likely to survive as a political player in Lebanon, and Israel now says it is willing to accept the organization if it sheds its military wing and abandons extremism.Link
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Doctors at the Tel Hashomer hospital near Tel Aviv said Sharon, who fell into a coma after a stroke on January 4, was suffering from an accumulation of fluids in his body and problems with the functioning of his kidneys.Link
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Here is a list of bloggers who are blogging from with in Lebanese and Israeli territories. They are stuck in the middle of a war and are being bombed constantly.Link
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
IDF forces operating late Sunday night in Maroun al-Ras arrested two Hizbullah members, the first prisoners captured since the fighting began. The operatives have been transferred to prison in Israel, Army Radio reported. Link
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Mideast diplomats were pressing Syria to stop backing Hezbollah as the guerrillas fired more deadly rockets onto Israel's third-largest city Sunday. Israel faced tougher-than-expected ground battles and bombarded targets in southern Lebanon, hitting a convoy of refugees. Link
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
Israeli troops backed by artillery and tank fire seized control of a Lebanese border village on Saturday and recovered weapons from another town in Hezbollah territory.Link
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan renewed calls for an end to combat between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.Link
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
Israeli troops seized control of a Lebanese border village on Saturday and recovered weapons from another town in Hezbollah territory.Link
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
Israeli troops seized control of a Lebanese border village on Saturday and recovered weapons from another town in Hezbollah territory.Link
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
Israeli commandoes are hunting day and night behind enemy lines in Lebanon and Syria for weapons of mass destruction believed to be in the possession of Hizb'allah.Link
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
A Hamas activist and three relatives were killed Friday in an explosion at his home in Gaza City, hospital officials said. Palestinians said the house was hit by an Israeli tank shell. Link
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
Relatives of the two Israeli soldiers kidnapped last week by Hezbollah guerrillas pleaded with their captors to keep them safe, and to offer a sign that they are still alive.Link
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
The fighting continues to escalate in the Middle East. An all out offensive into Lebanon seems inevitable.Link
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
An official from the U.N. monitoring force in south Lebanon, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, told The Associated Press in Beirut that between 300 and 500 troops are believed to be in the western sector of the borderLink
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
Oil held above $74 a barrel on Friday on concerns about escalating violence in the Middle East after Israel called up reservists in what could be a ground offensive against Hizbollah guerrillas. Link
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Israel has dropped 23 tons of bombs on a Hezbollah bunker in Beirut. That’s the latest in the Israel-Hezbollah (Lebanon) skirmish. Or conflict. War? Are they calling it outright war yet? I think at least some people are. Reports have over 300 Lebanese dead and ...
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006
As the fighting escalates on the ground between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, aid organizations are warning that one third of the dead and wounded are children. Foreign nationals continue to flee to Cyprus.Link
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Big surprise here. Everyone has an opinion. Did anyone expect Iraq's prime minister to take a different stance?Link
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006
The fighting continues. Israel has stepped up thier efforts and have been met by increased resistance.Link
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006
NITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan called Thursday for an immediate halt to the escalating conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia but said there were “serious obstacles to reaching a cease-fire.”Link
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006
A large fight between Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerrillas broke out Thursday evening on the Lebanese side of the border, the Israeli army said, adding that its troops suffered casualties but did not elaborate. Hezbollah's Al-Manar television said three Israeli soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in fighting.Link
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
Atrocities in the Promised Land.Link
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
The Mideast crisis and pro-Israel media bias.Link
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
US family stuck in Lebanon begs for help on getting out of war zone.Link
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
Israel unleashed fierce air strikes on Lebanon on Wednesday, killing 49 civilians and a Hizbollah fighter, as boats and buses left Beirut laden with thousands of foreigners fleeing the eight-day-old conflict.Link
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
BBC News sums up the two opposing viewpoints as violence continues to dominate the Middle East.Link
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
Israeli Warplanes Bomb Beirut Bunker Where Senior Hezbollah Leaders Thought to Be.Link
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
The Israeli-Palestinian peace charades ended with Israel's aggression on Gaza and Lebanon. Now, peace with justice is the only way out.Link
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Why CNN Made Me Sick Last NightLink
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Watch Elie Wiesel speak at yesterdays rally in NYC to support Israel. What a wonderful person!Link
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
So You Wanna Know Why Innocent People Are Dying in Lebanon?Link
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Washington has been actively countering international calls for an immediate cessation of violence between Israel and Hizb'allah, explaining that a ceasefire that leaves the Lebanese terror group intact will only facilitate future bloodshed.Link
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
11 Lebanese soldiers reported killed.Link
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Israeli tanks moved into the Mughazi refugee camp in central Gaza early Wednesday under cover of machine gun fire from troops, the latest incursion in its three-week military push in the seaside territory. Link
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
AP Video Israel declared Tuesday it was ready to fight Hezbollah guerrillas for several more weeks and possibly send ground forces into Lebanon, raising doubts about international efforts to broker an immediate cease-fire in the fighting that has killed more than 260 people and displaced 500,000. Link
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
The US is giving Israel a window of a week to inflict maximum damage on Hizbullah before weighing in behind international calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to British, European and Israeli sources.Link
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
Reports that Hezbolla rockets are again hitting HaifaLink
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
The U.S. has drawn up a plan to rescue US citizens from Lebanon via flights to Cyprus. The American Embassy in Beirut remains open and US nationals are urged to register via phone or internet for evacuation. French nationals have begun to be evacuated via Greek ferry to Cyprus as ...
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
Fighting intensifies on both sides Monday.Link
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
Israel says they will agree to halt fighting if the two soldiers are returned and if Islamic militants withdrew from the border.Link
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
Israeli ground forces moved into southern Lebanon Monday in what officials said was a limited operation aimed at destroying Hizb'allah outposts and laying the groundwork for a buffer zone.Link
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
Thus far 170 from Lebanon have been killed and 24 from Israel since the conflict started a week ago.Link
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Sunday, July 16th, 2006
Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz Sunday vowed Israel would continue to take the fight to Hizb'allah and its sponsors until present realities are altered, and said the Lebanese terror group had been surprised by Israel's ferocious response and resilience.Link
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Sunday, July 16th, 2006
4 Home Videos of Katyusha's Landing in Tiberisas, Haifa, Carmiel & Kiryat YamLink
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Sunday, July 16th, 2006
The United States will sell Israel a large quantity of jet fuel to feed its warplanes as they combat the forces of Islamic terrorism in the Middle East, the Pentagon has informed Congress.Link
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
Conflict continues to escalate with no sides backing down.Link
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
Pope Benedict said to be very worried over developmentsLink
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
Bloggers talk about the events currently taking place in Lebanon.Link
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
Israeli warplanes pounded Hezbollah's south Beirut stronghold and roads around the country, killing at least 15 Lebanese as they fled the onslaught. Hezbollah expanded its rocket fire, hitting another of Israel's main cities, and Israel warned that the guerrillas could strike Tel Aviv. Link
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
If Hamas and Hezbollah think there is a moral equivalent between the Israeli soldiers they kidnapped and the terrorists who are being held by Israel, let them begin by treating the Israeli soldiers the way Israel treats its prisoners. Let the Red Cross visit them.Link
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Friday, July 14th, 2006
Conditions and tensions continue to worsen in the region. Bush says Israel has the right to defend itself.Link
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Friday, July 14th, 2006
Israel tightened its seal on Lebanon, blasting its air and road links to the outside world and bringing its offensive to the capital for the first time Friday to punish Hezbollah -- and with it, the country -- for the capture of two Israeli soldiers.Link
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Friday, July 14th, 2006
An Israeli win against Hizb'allah will benefit Lebanon as much as it will Israel, Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Dan Gillerman, told his Lebanese counterpart during an emergency Security Countil meeting Friday.Link
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Friday, July 14th, 2006
On Friday, however, a Hezbollah drone loaded with explosives slammed into an Israeli navy vessel off Lebanon, causing severe damage and leaving it burning as it turned and cruised homeward, Israeli officials reported. The Arab television channel al-Jazeera said four sailors were missing after the attack. The drone may have ...
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Israel struck Beirut airport and Hizbollah television and began enforcing a naval blockade of Lebanon on Thursday, intensifying reprisals after Hizbollah seized two Israeli soldiers and killed eight a day earlier. Link
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Two rockets fired from Lebanon hit the northern Israeli port city of Haifa, the Israel Defense Forces saidLink
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Israeli warplanes killed six people in an attack early Wednesday on a Gaza City meeting of Hamas commanders, Israelis and Palestinians said, while Israel's military expanded an offensive in the region with an incursion in the southern Gaza Strip.Link
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Capture comes amid heavy clashes on Lebanon boarder.Link
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Israel PM calls attack 'An Act Of War'.Link
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
It's was great sadness that I write the title of this post. Pain, but honesty. I remember growing up hearing about the might Israeli army. The best Air Force in the world. The strongest quickest army around. Link
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Hezbollah militants crossed into Israel on Wednesday and captured two Israeli soldiers. Israel responded in southern Lebanon with warplanes, tanks and gunboats, and said seven of its soldiers had been killed in the violence.Link
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Israel's Muslim foes are clearly trying to stretch the Jewish state's forces and hamper its ability to deal militarily with the mounting terrorist threat by launching simultaneous waves of aggression from the Gaza Strip, Judea-Samaria and southern Lebanon.Link
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
Israeli Intelligent video appliances provider, ioimage, announced it has established a US corporate office to bring its advanced intelligent appliances and related products to the North American security market.Link
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
According to sources the Israel Defense Minister is in talks to purchase a US laser system that will blow up rockets fired into Israel from their Palestinian neighbors. Link
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Thursday, July 6th, 2006
Worst violence in almost a yearLink
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Thursday, July 6th, 2006
Less than a year after abandoning Gaza “forever”, Israel is back in the Strip – part of the ancient Promised Land in the inheritance of Judah.Link
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Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
This after Palestinian militants fired rocket into Israel cityLink
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Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
United Nations officials in the Gaza Strip are complaining that Arab children living there are wetting their beds due to the tense and frightening situation created by Israel’s current military operations.Link
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Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
The AP reports that in the most recent Quassam rocket attack on Israel no children were in the school at the time of the attack. Israeli news outlets report that children and parents WERE at the school at the time of the attack. Please write to the AP ...
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Monday, July 3rd, 2006
Scientists at an Israeli university have found a promising new way to stop the growth and spread of cancer cells while carrying out research to boost the size of peaches and nectarines, the university said on Sunday.... Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists found that a protein similar to one researched ...
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Monday, July 3rd, 2006
Whether or not the coming storm and all the new hardships associated with it slams into Gaza is entirely up to them.Link
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Monday, July 3rd, 2006
The Palestinian Authority - that “moderate” bunch headed by Mahmoud Abbas - has resumed broadcasts on its official television station of a horrendous clip urging young Arab children to seek death while engaging in acts of violence against Israel’s Jews.Link
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli aircraft fired missiles at the Palestinian prime minister's office early Sunday, just hours after a Palestinian official said the soldier whose abduction sent Israeli troops into the Gaza Strip is alive and in stable condition.Link
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
This comes after yesterday when Israel increased its missile attacks in Gaza.Link
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
Hamas calls attack 'Premeditated'Link
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
2 Other airstrikes was also reported Saturday night.Link
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Interior ministry building in flamesLink
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
No casualties reported as of yetLink
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Israel has warned Palestinian leaders of massive retribution unless the young corporal snatched by militants in a tunnel raid is returnedLink
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Olmert warns of extended military campaign if soldier is not releasedLink
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Monday, June 26th, 2006
Nineteen year old Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is thought to have been captured by Palestinian militant factions, but Palestine's reigning Hamas denies responsibility. Tension is high after the death of eight Palestinians, including children, on a beach in Gaza.Link
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Monday, June 26th, 2006
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority Chairman and Fatah chief who repeatedly presents himself as a peace partner Israel can deal with came out publicly at the weekend in agreement with Hamas on the question of murdering Jews in Samaria and Judea.Link
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