updated Fri. November 17, 2023
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New York Times
February 23, 2018
Two wars in and around Gaza, both initiated by Hamas, were devastating for Palestinians but resulted in relatively few Israeli casualties. The Israeli Air Force lost an F-16 after coming under heavy Syrian antiaircraft fire, but that seems to have been a fluke. For the most part, Israel has been able to strikeÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
February 17, 2018
No Israeli casualties were reported but two residents were taken to a hospital. The Israeli army said it retaliated with a "large-scale attack" that hit six Hamas targets, including two military bases and a tunnel from Gaza into Israel. The Israeli army believes the coalition of militants belonging to various IslamistÃâà...
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
February 13, 2018
Those devastating attacks were preceded by the bombing of the headquarters of the Israeli forces in Tyre in November 1982, which caused numerous Israeli casualties. It was Mughniyeh who came up with the idea of the Lebanese suicide bombings of the 1980s. He personally recruited the first ShiiteÃâà...
Haaretz
February 12, 2018
The self-exultation is a bit excessive, of course, given that there were no Israeli casualties and no reason for the weekenders to fear for their lives. This was not the 1991 Gulf War, for example, when Iraqi missiles caused a mass and sometimes-frantic exodus from Tel Aviv. Nonetheless, one can make aÃâà...
Jordan Times
February 12, 2018
The former ambassador went on to say that such a war "will not be a walk in the park and there will be Israeli casualties more than in 2006 because Hizbollah has increased its arsenal and its ability to reach a much wider part of Israeli territories and with more precision". Should such a scenario take place,Ãâà...
Haaretz
January 5, 2018
A Palestinian demonstrator reacts during clashes with Israeli troops in the southern Gaza Strip near the border with Israel, December 29, 2017. IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA/REUTERS. Unusual Israeli statement and Palestinian silence suggest target of Gaza strike was attack tunnel Ãâ÷ Islamic Jihad joinsÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
June 2, 2017
Tel Aviv – The recently released Israeli documents on the 1967 War revealed that the decision to launch the war did not officially include the occupation of East Jerusalem. For decades, Israel claimed that Jordan had sparked the war despite its urging, through the US embassy and international monitors,Ãâà...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
December 31, 1999
Two wars in and around Gaza, both initiated by Hamas, were devastating for Palestinians but resulted in relatively few Israeli casualties. The Israeli air force lost an F-16 after coming under heavy Syrian anti-aircraft fire, but that seems to have been a fluke. For the most part, Israel has been able to strikeÃâà...
