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It was always going to be the most fragile of cease-fires - after all, Israel and the Palestinian militants of Hamas are sworn enemies. And on Tuesday night, the truce brokered by Egypt last June that has largely stamped out violence across the boundary between Israel and Gaza, appeared in...
"This was a must. We had to destroy the tunnel," one Israeli official told TIME. "Hamas was going to use it to try kidnapping more Israeli soldiers." Corporal Gilad Shalit, captured by Palestinian militants in June 2006 during a cross-border raid, is still being held in Gaza, and Hamas...
Hamas, the Islamic militants who control Gaza, struck back, lobbing mortars at the Israeli forces and wounding six soldiers. Circling Israeli drones and helicopters fired missiles killing six Hamas fighters, and Israeli forces pulled back, after blowing up the house at the edge of a teeming refugee camp from which...
As much as the exchange of fire rattled the truce, it may have been ritual bloodletting. Neither Hamas nor Israel wants the cease-fire to end yet. The Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak wants to prolong it because his Labor Party, according to polls, stands to lose more legislative seats...
Israeli officials were predicting that unless a Hamas rocket causes major casualties, the cease-fire would likely resume within 48 hours - even as the fighting raged, the Israelis and Hamas were frantically passing messages to one another through Egyptians middlemen, urging a restoration of the truce. As Israeli Deputy Defense...