The Israeli Palestinian Conflict

On April 27 a reconciliation agreement was initialed by Fatah and Hamas representatives in Cairo. The agreement is expected to be signed in Cairo on May 4. The agreement calls for the establishment of a unity government of technocrats, which will preside until elections are held about a year from now for Palestinian Authority institutions. Read more...

Events this past week focused on the April 24 killing of a young Israeli and wounding of three others by Palestinian police Israel’s south was relatively quiet during the Passover holiday. Two rockets were fired, and the IDF responded by attacking terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip. On April 14 Vittorio Arrigoni, an anti-Israeli International Read more...

Between April 7 and 10 there was a new round of escalation in the Gaza Strip. It followed the Hamas anti-tank missile attack of a school bus and barrages of rocket and mortar shell fire targeting Israel’s south (132 rocket and mortar shell hits were identified during those four days). In response, the IDF attacked Read more...