Inside Story - Ceasefire talks - 14 May 08 - Part 1
With Israel and Hamas bickering over conditions, is a bilateral ceasefire possible?
With Israel and Hamas bickering over conditions, is a bilateral ceasefire possible?
With Israel and Hamas bickering over conditions, is a bilateral ceasefire possible?
A day after rejecting a truce offered by Hamas, Israel has carried out two airstrikes on Gaza.
A 14-year-old girl - said to be the daughter of a Hamas leader - was also killed during an Israeli incursion into the town of Beit Lahiya. At least eight others were wounded.
From Gaza, David Chater reports.
The military wing of Hamas has launched a rare suicide attack on Gaza’s border with Israel.
It came as a controversial meeting between Hamas officials and Jimmy Carter, the former US president, was concluding in Syria.
At least 13 Israeli soldiers were wounded, and three Palestinian fighters were reported to be killed.
Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from Gaza.
He’s been villified at home for meeting the leader of a group, the US calls a terrorist organisation.
However, Jimmy Carter, the former US President, sat down for talks with the political leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal in Damascus.
Carter, who won a Nobel Prize for negotiating peace between Israel and Egypt, holds no official power, but he is an influential voice.
Al Jazeera’s Clayton Swisher reports from Damascus.