Egypt: Israel's Gaza offensive to end Tuesday
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press (Analysis) November 20, 2012 - 1:00am Egypt's president predicted Tuesday that Israel's nearly weeklong offensive in the Gaza Strip would end within hours, and Israel's prime minister said his country would be a "willing partner" to a cease-fire with Hamas aimed at ending relentless Israeli airstrikes and Palestinian rocket attacks. |
Clinton Visits in Effort to Defuse Gaza Conflict; Egypt Hints at Truce
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Isabel Kershner - November 20, 2012 - 1:00am JERUSALEM — Diplomatic efforts accelerated Tuesday to end the deadly confrontation between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, as the United States sent Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Middle East and Egypt’s president and his senior aides expressed confidence that a cease-fire was close. |
Israeli government websites under mass hacking attack
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters by Steven Scheer - (Opinion) November 19, 2012 - 1:00am More than 44 million hacking attempts have been made on Israeli government web sites since Wednesday when Israel began its Gaza air strikes, the government said on Sunday. |
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 2 children, 12 others
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency November 20, 2012 - 1:00am GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon killed two children, and at least twelve others, bringing the day's death toll to 21. An airstrike on Kishku street in the Zaitoun neighborhood killed two children, medics said. At least six Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on two cars in Gaza City's Sabra neighborhood. Three others were critically injured. |
Hoisting Dead Children, Gazans Mourn Family Killed by Israeli Strike
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Jodi Rudoren - (Analysis) November 20, 2012 - 1:00am GAZA CITY — Sweat streamed through the beards of three men clutching the body of 7-year-old Jamal Dalu as they raced through the streets toward his final resting place here amid bursts from assault rifles fired into the air and shouts of “God is great.” They occasionally bent to kiss the boy’s bare, bloodied head or shrouded feet. But they had to jog to stay ahead of the body of his father on a grand wooden pallet, and thousands who thronged on all sides. |
While Trying to Mediate, Egypt Blames Israel for Gaza Conflict
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by David Kirkpatrick - (Analysis) November 19, 2012 - 1:00am While holding itself out as an honest broker for truce talks between Israel and Hamas over the |
IDF Tracked Rockets From Iran to Hamas
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'ariv by Akhikam Moshe David - November 16, 2012 - 1:00am The smuggling operation was highly complex. The Fajr-5 rockets made in Iran, each six meters long, were transported all the way from their country of origin — dismantled and re-assembled along the way, smuggled via the Gaza Strip tunnels and then hoisted out using cranes — until they were positioned at their launching sites in Gaza. However, the smugglers were unaware that all that time, for over a year, IDF intelligence, headed by Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, was after them, tracking them down from the moment they left Iran, targeting and destroying the rockets in a matter of minutes. |
Gaza Crisis Poses Threat to Faction Favored by U.S.
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Ethan Bronner - (Analysis) November 20, 2012 - 1:00am In the daily demonstrations here of solidarity with Gaza, a mix of sympathy and anguish, there is something else: growing identification with the Islamist fighters ofHamas and derision for the |
PLO leader: Ceasefire talks underway in Cairo
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency November 18, 2012 - 1:00am BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Negotiations in Cairo for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas have made progress, but a truce is unlikely in the coming days, PLO official Nabil Shaath said Sunday. Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal and his deputy Mousa Abu Marzouq updated Shaath on talks in Cairo between Palestinian factions and an Israeli delegate. Fatah leader and President Mahmoud Abbas is also in direct contact with Mashaal, Shaath said. |