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...Hamas' leadership, in Gaza and Damascus, split on whether to accept a cease-fire. One Israeli military source told TIME that Hamas' walkie-talkie frequency had been cracked, and Israeli Arabic speakers have interrupted the fighters to say, "You're the ones spilling blood, not your leaders, who are safe in hiding." Israeli officials are so confident of crushing Hamas that on Sunday the military intelligence chief, Major General Amos Yadlin, gave his war briefing to the Cabinet in comical verse...
...especially in difficult economic times.Over the last two years, Yelbi has gone from being a hopeful, college-bound high school senior, to living day-to-day on a meager income garnered from tutoring jobs at a local community college. He sleeps by night in one of the few relatively-safe homeless shelters in the Cambridge area, including the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, a student-run organization affiliated with the Phillips Brooks House Association.The events that made him homeless would also connect him to a group of Harvard students, volunteers at HSHS, who would help make his dream of attending college...
...reservists banter about wives, girlfriends, or jobs - anything but what awaits them in Gaza. Once they cross over, the soldiers are forbidden from calling home on their cell phones. "So after I go in, the next call my wife gets will either be from me telling her I'm safe, or from the IDF," says Seigelman...
...Agency headquarters. Young wide-eyed children, wailing infants, men and women stood begging the guard to open the gate and allow them to take cover inside. The guard refused. "Go to the UNRWA shelters," he shouted. "There's one 10 minutes away." We all knew those shelters weren't safe, that 48 people had already been killed in them...
Before returning to our building, I can't help but stare at it for a moment and think that our homes might not always be safe places. But still they give us a sense of warmth, security and protection that is worth fighting for till the very end. I also can't help staring at the sky. The stars are beautiful and seem to shine brighter than ever. I can make out several constellations, and I count five Israeli warplanes...