Sherine Tadros: Covering This Gaza War. It's incredible to watch this war being covered on the inside, as it should have been during the previous war, by hundreds of foreign as well as local journalists.
In 2008 Israel and Egypt sealed their borders confining the journalists to the outskirts of the war inside the Strip. Myself and Ayman Mohyeldin (now NBC Foreign Affairs Correspondent) were left to describe what was happening to the outside world. We couldn't cover every strike, every tragedy, we couldn't be everywhere and we weren't awake 24 hours a day. Now, Gaza is under the microscope, whether via social media, print, radio, TV -- there is no ignoring what is raging within. I have my own theories as to why Israel decided not to lock out the journalists this time around, but that is for another post. Gaza is not a particularly hard story to cover; it's happening all around you. But it's precisely that which journalists struggle with. There is a general problem with media when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israel's Shortsighted Assassination. AHMED AL-JABARI — the strongman of , the head of its military wing, the man responsible for the abduction of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit — was assassinated on Wednesday by Israeli missiles.
Why? ’s government has declared that the aim of the current strikes against is to rebuild deterrence so that no rockets will be fired on Israel. Israel’s targeted killings of Hamas leaders in the past sent the Hamas leadership underground and prevented rocket attacks on Israel temporarily. According to Israeli leaders, deterrence will be achieved once again by targeting and killing military and political leaders in Gaza and hitting hard at Hamas’s military infrastructure.
But this policy has never been effective in the long term, even when the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, was killed by Israel. When we were negotiating with Hamas to release Mr. I believe that Israel made a grave and irresponsible strategic error by deciding to kill Mr. Gaza Crisis.
The Internet at War (#Anonymous Operation Israel) Gaza: How can the US manage the crisis? - Inside Story Americas. To Hamas and other Palestinian groups, the US president sent a strong condemnation, saying there is no justification for "the cowardly acts" of launching rockets into Israel.
To the Israeli prime minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, he sent a message of support and simply urged him to "avoid" civilian casualties. So far around two dozen Palestinians have been killed including six children and a pregnant woman. Three Israeli civilians have been killed. This is a conflict that the world has become all too familiar with. It was almost exactly four years ago that Israel launched a 22-day operation in Gaza that left more than a thousand Palestinians, and 13 Israelis dead. At the time Barack Obama had just been elected but had not yet assumed office. But over the last few years, the Palestinian-Isreali conflict has been largely ignored as unrest swept across the Middle East. So what options does President Obama have in dealing with this crisis as US influence in the region wanes? LIVE BLOG: IDF prepares for ground invasion as Gaza offensive enters fourth day.
Intensive Israeli airstrikes blitz Gaza Strip as death toll mounts. Israeli Airstrike Kills Three Generations of a Palestinian Family. Bibi’s First War. Despite his deserved reputation as an extremist and rejectionist of the first order, Binyamin Netanyahu, unlike most of his predecessors, had until this week never initiated a war.
He appears not to have planned one this time either. Bibi’s template for the current assault on the Gaza Strip may well have been the events of September 1996, when 17 Israeli soldiers and 70 Palestinians were killed in the clashes that followed Israel’s festive opening of the Western Wall Tunnel in the heart of occupied East Jerusalem. It happened during Netanyahu’s previous term in office, and consists of three simple steps. 1. Launch an outrageous provocation guaranteed to elicit an armed response. 2. Use overwhelming firepower to kill Arabs and remind them who is boss. 3.
This time round, on 8 November, a week before Ahmad Jabari was assassinated, Israeli soldiers shot dead 13-year-old Ahmad Abu Daqqa while he was playing football outside his house in Gaza.