Results for “Gaza”

… face a United Nations vote welcoming the State of Palestine as a member whose territory includes all of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. The Palestinian Authority has been steadily building support for such a resolution in September, a move that could place Israel into a...

…3 in which no Israeli citizen was killed in a terrorist attack originating from the West Bank. As on the newly-pacified Gaza-Israel border, a tense quiet pervades things here, although a bright red sign at the junction reminds one category of motorist not to feel too complacent....

…s route between the southern port city of Ashdod and Tel Aviv. On the evening of April 12, 1984, four Palestinians from Gaza boarded the bus and hijacked it back toward the border with Egypt. They told the passengers they were armed with knives, and that a suitcase which one of t...

… the intifada had also thrown up new Palestinian groups grounded not in nationalism, but fundamentalist Islam: Hamas in Gaza, which opposed Israel’s presence on any part of “Muslim Palestine,” and Islamic Jihad on the West Bank. And in Lebanon, we were confronting the Iranian-bac...

… me on Friday at 8 pm.” As soon as we got word he was missing, I spoke to Rabin. Since we assumed he was being held in Gaza, I ordered a unit from Sayeret Matkal to head south and co-ordinate efforts to locate him with the Shin Bet and the southern command. But it gradually beca...

…tank transporter crashed into a minibus carrying Palestinians from the Jabalya refugee camp near the main crossing from Gaza into Israel. Four passengers were killed. By the time of the funerals the next day, a rumor had spread, no less incendiary for being absurd, that the cras...

… already achieved nearly all of its targets. Perhaps wanting to balance the failures in Lebanon there with “success” in Gaza, Olmert wanted us to continue, and expand our attacks deeper into Gaza. I reminded him that we’d agreed the aims beforehand. The longer we stayed, the less...

was “Get Gaza out of Tel Aviv!” Labor ended up gaining five Knesset

and an initial Israeli withdrawal limited to Gaza — would lead to serious

let Egypt take Gaza. Let them deal with it. Or sink

it would be as if the West Bank and Gaza Strip had been

and proceeds blindly toward turning the Gaza Strip into a

Israel was in control of Gaza and the whole of the Sinai.

we did so. The one lasting gain came in Gaza. On their way out

one Salafi-jihadist preacher declared Gaza to