JERUSALEM (AP) — With fighting all around them, Israeli troops knocked on the door of the Samouni clan in Gaza City last weekend and told them to leave, directing them to the building owned by a relative. Twenty-four hours later, three shells ...
9 Jan 2009
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The United Nations plans to resume aid operations in Gaza as soon as it's safe, based on word from Israel's military that aid workers will be better protected. The U.N. suspended deliveries yesterday after two incidents left an aid ...
9 Jan 2009
SEATTLE (AP) -- The story, exquisitely hand-printed on old parchment, has been a staple of sermons for centuries. Jacob, having tricked his twin brother Esau out of the birthright, flees to his trickster uncle Laban, begets many children, grows ...
9 Jan 2009
* GAZA - Israel carries out a series of air strikes throughout the Gaza Strip after nightfall. Hamas said one of its militants was killed and four others were wounded. Medical officials said 10 civilians were also wounded in the strikes. * GAZA - An ...
9 Jan 2009
The IDF insists that the great majority of Gazan casualties have been "gunmen." The Palestinians say that at least half are "civilians." Palestinian holders of foreign passports arrive on the Israeli side of the Erez Crossing, after leaving the Gaza ...
9 Jan 2009
JERUSALEM, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Egyptian efforts to broker a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip appeared bogged down on Friday because of disagreements with Israel over how to secure the border to prevent Hamas from rearming, diplomats said. Israeli and ...
9 Jan 2009
JERUSALEM, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Friday his country's military operations in Gaza will move forward despite calls for a truce in the Gaza Strip.
9 Jan 2009
[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Suheil S. Dawani, Anglican
bishop in Jerusalem, issued the following statement about the
situation in Gaza and the Al Ahli Arab Hospital, an institution of
the Diocese of Jerusalem that is struggling to provide critical
health care to anyone in need.
At a time when great tragedy is occurring in the Holy Land in Gaza, I
want to share some insight into ...
9 Jan 2009
JERUSALEM — Israel and Hamas leaders rebuffed U.N. calls for an immediate halt to the fighting in Gaza on Friday, all but ensuring that the war will go into its third week despite the rising death toll among civilians.
9 Jan 2009
>Episcopal Life Daily >January 8, 2009 Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife . >Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes: * TOP STORY - Jerusalem bishop issues statement on Gaza, Al Ahli Arab Hospital * DIOCESAN DIGEST - FORT WORTH: Presiding Bishop will convene special diocesan convention * DIOCESAN DIGEST - PITTSBURGH: Diocesan leaders ask court for access ...
9 Jan 2009
Supporters of the Hamas movement on Friday clashed with members of the rival Fatah party during protests in the West Bank city of Ramallah against the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
9 Jan 2009
The book 'A View of Jerusalem' shows how life as a college student in the Holy Land dramatically changed once violent outbreaks between Palestinian rioters and Israeli police erupted in Sept. 2000.
9 Jan 2009
Tolman attended the Jerusalem Center in the fall semester of 2000, and was one of only 175 students. Even though the center re-opened for limited registration in 2006, Tolman's experiences are anything but common. ...
9 Jan 2009
I support a unified Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty, so as never to return to the dark period of 1947-67, when Arab control over an artificially divided Jerusalem meant religious persecution, desecration of holy sites, ...
9 Jan 2009
I was a guest media columnist on media affairs for The Jerusalem Post, op-ed contributor to various journals and for six years had a weekly media show on Arutz 7 radio. I serve as an unofficial spokesperson for the Jewish Communities in ...
9 Jan 2009
The ninth edition of the Jerusalem International Oud festival predated the current, painful Middle-Eastern round of hostilities in a month, but still offered a much better alternative to the local leaders' militant vision for this ...
8 Jan 2009
The online edition of The Jerusalem Post – JPost.com – provides first class news and analysis about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. Whether news about Iran, Gaza, Syria, Fatah, Hamas or Hezbollah, JPost.com covers the ...
8 Jan 2009
Israel wary of binding UNSC resolution | International | Jerusalem ... - Senior Western and Arab diplomats continued a three-day-long push Thursday for a UN Security Council resolution on Gaza, even as Israeli officials said they were ...
8 Jan 2009