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Abeer's brother Mohammed, 13, told TIME he once watched his sister, frozen in fear, as a U.S. soldier ran his index finger down her cheek. Mohammed has since learned that soldier's name: Steven Green. Last week Green, 21, a former Army private first class who was honorably discharged because of a "personality disorder" a month before the criminal allegations came to light, pleaded not guilty to charges of raping Abeer and killing her along with her parents and 7-year-old sister. Five other soldiers have been charged, four of them for conspiring with Green...
...high time for Hamas to return that soldier," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a media conference on Wednesday in reference to the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, which precipitated the current Israeli offensive in Gaza. "It is high time then for everybody who has any influence on Hamas to make sure that that happens, and then we can get back on track...
...outcome of the Shalit crisis may even further empower the radicals: Israel's Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter indicated Friday that Israel may be moving toward a prisoner swap - as demanded by Shalit's captors - in order to get its soldier home. That would be a massive victory for the hard-liners in Hamas - in the same way that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza without negotiating any agreements with the Palestinian leadership was taken on the street as vindication of the violent strategy of Hamas, which had not yet entered politics...
...recent days, Israeli soldiers had taken positions inside Palestinian homes in Beit Hanoun, and last night more than a dozen Israeli tanks pushed into three former Israeli settlements and also into Beit Lahiya. Scattered exchanges of fire Wednesday night had turned, by early Thursday, into a series of running battles, with Palestinian fighters firing automatic weapons and RPGs, and the Israelis firing from tanks and other armored vehicles positioned between homes on village streets, and later calling in support from helicopter gunships. Israeli officials say their soldier was killed by a Palestinian sniper, while the Palestinian fatalities came from missile...
...response to specific circumstances. But the incursion appears to have escalated the confrontation with the militant groups, potentially drawing Israel ever deeper into Gaza. Israeli efforts over recent months to halt Qassam fire have not worked. The diplomatic and military efforts undertaken in pursuit of freeing the captive soldier have not, it appears, yielded the breakthrough that might bring him home. And the fact that Israel is also targeting the political infrastructure of the Hamas government suggests that no matter how limited the objectives of the current campaign, its impact could be long-lasting and its consequences severe...