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As the Gaza fighting rages, diplomats work toward cease-fire

Soldiers receive last-minute instructions before crossing the border into the Gaza Strip to start Israel's ground offensive on Jan. 3, 2009. (Israel Defense Forces)

In the second week of the war in Gaza, with Israeli ground troops poised to intensify their actions against Hamas militants, weapons' stores and rocket-launching sites, diplomatic efforts to end the fighting gathered pace. Read more »

Despite split on cease-fire, E.U.-Israeli ties stronger than ever

Despite public disagreements over the need for an immediate cease-fire, Israeli and European officials appear to be forging improved relations on several fronts. Read more »

Captured soldier Shalit a pawn in Gaza operation

Two days into Israel's operation in the Gaza Strip, Arab media outlets began reporting that captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit had been wounded in an Israeli airstrike. Read more » Breaking News Five Israeli soldiers were killed, four of them in two separate friendly fire incidents in Gaza. Barack Obama continued to decline comment on the situation in the Gaza Strip. A French television network apologized for erroneously broadcasting a false report on Israel's Gaza operation. The North American Jewish federation system will raise $10 million for southern Israel. China pledged $1 million in aid to Palestinians and called for a cease-fire. Russia's president ordered top foreign officials to prepare a delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza and called for an immediate cease-fire in the conflict. A car containing Molotov cocktails rammed into the door of a French synagogue and burst into flames. A Russian college student was convicted of linking an anti-Semitic video to a Russian Web site. An Australian Jewish group slammed Israel's invasion of Gaza as "inhuman," "superfluous" and "abominable." Top Democrats are planning to introduce a nonbinding congressional resolution supporting Israel's goal in its Gaza Strip operation. Arab countries are drafting a U.N Security Council resolution demanding an immediate end to "Israeli aggression" in Gaza. A weekly Greek newspaper calls Jews "Christ killers" in an editorial about the Gaza conflict. A Catholic priest desecrated a memorial to slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in New Zealand's capital. A U.S. Jewish group praised the Bush administration for airlifting equipment to peace forces in Sudan. The oldest known Ukrainian Jew has died at the age of 111. A United Nations watchdog group urged the organization to reject the draft declaration for its upcoming racism conference. A Los Angeles Jewish day school official is at the center of an investigation that forced Bill Richardson to withdraw from consideration for a Cabinet post. Barack Obama has nominated a Jewish woman to serve as his solicitor general.