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Israel Says It Found Hamas Training Manual in Gaza

The Israeli army has released what it says is a page from a seized Hamas training manual that would appear to support its case that Palestinian militants deliberately use the cover of residential areas for combat operations. Hamas, which denies it puts civilians at risk by storing and firing weapons from built-up areas, dismissed the…

By Reuters Aug 24, 2014 | 3 min read
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Israel Strikes Gaza High-Rise as Fighting Rages

Egypt called on Israel and the Palestinians on Saturday to halt hostilities and resume peace talks but both sides kept up attacks, including an Israeli air strike which destroyed a residential tower block in the center of Gaza City. Hamas militants also fired rockets at Israel. Initial reports said 17 people were wounded in the…

By Reuters Aug 23, 2014 | 5 min read
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Pro-Israel Groups Slam Attack on Philadelphia College Student

Among the 12 organizations that signed on to the statement were StandWithUs, the Zionist Organization of America and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting

By JTA Aug 23, 2014 | < 1 min read
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Israeli Teens Gripped by Virulent Racism

(Haaretz) — “For me, personally, Arabs are something I can’t look at and can’t stand,” a 10th-grade girl from a high school in the central part of the country says in abominable Hebrew. “I am tremendously racist. I come from a racist home. If I get the chance in the army to shoot one of…

By Or Kashti Aug 23, 2014 | 8 min read
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Hamas Endorses International Criminal Court War Crimes Push

Hamas leaders said on Saturday they had given their consent for the Palestinians to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), a move that could open up both Israel and the militant group to war crime probes over the fighting in Gaza. Moussa Abu Marzouk, a Hamas leader based in Cairo, said he had signed a…

By Reuters Aug 23, 2014 | 2 min read
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Israel Pounds Gaza After 4-Year-Old Boy Slain by Rocket

(Reuters) — Israeli aircraft bombed the Gaza Strip on Saturday and Palestinian militants fired rockets at the Jewish state, the military said, with no end in sight to the deadliest violence between the sides in years. Gaza health officials said five people were killed in an Israeli strike on a house in central Gaza. The…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell Aug 23, 2014 | 2 min read
The Schmooze
Turning Brownstones Green: Interview with Eitan Baron

Courtesy of Greenstone It takes a certain set of skills to make it in New York, and when Eitan Baron moved to the Big Apple in 2000, he definitely didn’t have it. Picking up a suitcase and moving from Azor, Israel, to try his luck at selling oil paintings in Florida was not quite what…

By Maia Efrem Aug 23, 2014 | 4 min read
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European Powers Propose Gaza Ceasefire Monitor Plan

Britain, France and Germany have floated the idea of creating a monitoring and verification mechanism for any future ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to prevent future conflicts, a senior British diplomat said on Friday. The proposal was contained in an outline for a possible draft resolution prepared by the three…

By Reuters Aug 23, 2014 | 2 min read

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