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St. Louis Jewish Light

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Israel strikes Gaza sites after weekend of rockets

JTAPublished February 19, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Israel's Air Force struck two sites in the Gaza Strip after a weekend of rocket attacks on southern Israel. Israeli aircraft late Saturday night struck a weapons manufacturing site in northern Gaza, and a home in Gaza City which a statement...

Israel strikes Gaza targets

JTAPublished February 16, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Israel's Air Force struck what the military called two "terror activity sites" in the Gaza Strip. The attacks early Thursday morning were in response to four rockets fired on southern Israel Wednesday night, according to a statement from...

Israel attacks Gaza sites in response to rocket fire

JTAPublished February 12, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Israel's Air Force attacked four targets in Gaza, in response to rocket fire from Gaza that injured an Israeli woman. The attacks early Monday morning struck three tunnels between Gaza and Israel as well as what the IDF said in a statement...

Palestinians throw shoes at U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon

JTAPublished February 2, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Gaza Palestinians threw slippers or shoes and rocks at a car carrying United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon as he crossed from Israel into the Gaza Strip. Thursday's protesters, relatives of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, tried to block...

Israeli planes attack Gaza sites

JTAPublished January 24, 2012

JERUSALEM—Israel's Air Force attacked terrorist sites in the Gaza Strip. The targets hit after midnight on Monday night included a weapons manufacturing site in central Gaza, two terror tunnels in northern Gaza, and a third terror tunnel in southern...

Islamic Jihad cell arrested in West Bank

JTAPublished January 19, 2012

JERUSALEM—Ten members of an Islamic Jihad terror cell were arrested near Jenin in the West Bank. The cell was planning attacks against Israeli soldiers and the abductions of Israelis, according to reports Thursday after the Shin Bet security services...

Where Rockets Miss, A Kibbutz Prospers

By Jeffrey F. Barken, JointMedia News ServicePublished November 23, 2011

Kibbutz Dorot lies roughly 10 miles from the Gaza border, 4.5 miles from the college town of Sderot and 18 miles from the Israeli port city of Ashkelon. Strangely, the kibbutz appears to be protected from the sporadic volleys of rockets launched by terrorist...

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Sadly ironic tragedy in the Gaza Strip

BY ROBERT A. COHNPublished April 21, 2011

One would think that the terrorist group Hamas could never appear to be relatively "moderate" or more accurately less extreme than other factions in the Gaza Strip. But the recent murder of pro-Palestinian Hamas supporter and Italian activist Vittorio...

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