Israel launched an air strike on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the first such attack since an eight-day war in November, Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls the territory, and Israel\’s military said.
A rocket fired from Gaza exploded in Israel on Tuesday, the first such attack since a November truce and an apparent show of solidarity with West Bank protests after the death of a Palestinian in an Israeli jail.
No one knows for sure why the Gaza hostilities began. We know that there had been weeks of intensifying rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, rockets fired by various Palestinian groups that were tolerated, even encouraged by the governing Hamas.
Between Israeli youths going through Hurricane Sandy and American youths experiencing the onslaught of rockets from Gaza, participants of November’s America Israel Friendship League’s (AIFL) student exchange rode an emotional and historic rollercoaster on both sides of the Atlantic.
Images continue to come in from Israel-Gaza conflict. Photos by Reuters
Thousands of people protested in Egyptian cities on Friday against Israeli air strikes on Gaza and Egypt\’s president pledged to support the Palestinian enclave\’s population in the face of \”blatant aggression.\”
Thirty U.S. senators have signed on to a resolution expressing support for Israel\’s \”inherent right to act in self-defense.\”
The IDF targeted Ahmed Jabari, the head of Hamas\’ military wing in the Gaza Strip, on Nov. 14.
The Cairo-based Arab League will discuss the Israeli attack on Gaza at a special meeting to be held either on Thursday or Saturday, a senior League diplomat told Reuters.
Responding to over 800 rockets fired in recent weeks and months against Israeli civilians by Hamas and other terror organizations in Gaza, Israel has launched Operation Pillar of Defense.
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