Israel has vowed to fight Hamas to the death. Defence Minister Ehud Barack has said that the ongoing air attacks on Gaza are a war to the bitter end against Hamas militants. Palestinian doctors say more than 300 hundred people have been killed in three days of air strikes.
The Israeli offensive has been largely met with quiet approval in the US. But there have been protests in Washington and South America as Tom Ackerman reports.
Israeli jets are again bombing targets in the Gaza Strip. The air assualt is now into a third day. Warships have also been involved in the attacks, shelling the area around Gaza's port.
The death toll in Gaza has risen to 318. A UN agency says at least 51 of those victims were civilians.
Despite the onslaught, the Palestinian resistance continues. Rockets fired from Gaza have killed one person and injured seven in the city of Ashkelon.
Thousands of Iraqis gathered in Baghdad on Sunday to show their support for Palestinians. Demonstrators held signs, flags and chanted in support. (Dec. 28)
Gazan civilians are being sent to hospitals which are working on a makeshift basis due to poor medical supplies amid the Israeli siege on the territory. Services are struggling to cope. Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.
For a second day, Israeli aircraft have pounded what they say are Hamas targets in Gaza. The death toll has risen to at least 280, among them women and children.
Hamas has vowed not to cave in, but Israel's operation could soon escalate. Tanks have massed at the Gazan border, and Ehud Olmert's office says military reservists are being mobilised.
The UN Security Council has demanded an immediate end to the violence, and Egypt is trying to broker a ceasefire. But the airs raids are continuing, as Clayton Swisher reports.
A wave of missile attacks on the Gaza Strip, which began on Saturday morning, bombarded security compounds belonging to Hamas, which controls the coastal territory.
"Warning: Graphic Content" As Mark Phillips reports, Israeli officials have launched one of the most powerful military assaults in decades against Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes pounded dozens of Hamas security compounds in the Gaza Strip, killing more than 200 people and wounding nearly 400 in the single bloodiest day of fighting in years.
December 23 is a national holiday in Japan. It's the current Emperor's birthday and on that day he give a public speech from a balcony of the Imperial Palace. Normally the area is off-limits to the general public save for specially arranged tours.
Only on December 23 and January 2 can people enter the grounds of the Imperial Palace and listen to the Emperor give a public address.
This footage is from last year which pretty miserable weatherwise. The Emperor has cancelled his birthday address this year due to illness