After hopes of a ceasefire last night appear to have come to nothing, the fighting between Israel and Hamas has intensified further with a bomb set off on a bus in Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial capital.
After hopes of a ceasefire last night appear to have come to nothing, the fighting between Israel and Hamas has intensified further with a bomb set off on a bus in Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial capital.
Is the region heading for another ground war or will Israel and Hamas find sufficient common ground to keep to a ceasefire?
Back in 2008, during Israel’s attack on Gaza that left more than 1,400 (more than 700 of whom were civilians)…
Israel assassinated the military chief of Hamas, Ahmed Said Khalil al-Jabari, on Wednesday, causing the conflict to escalate and Hamas warning that Israel have opened the “gates of hell”.
Palestinians face serious abuses in the Hamas criminal justice system, including arbitrary arrest, incommunicado detention, torture, and unfair trials. Hamas has executed at least three men convicted on “confessions” apparently obtained under torture since 2007.