Sixty years ago, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, bringing enlightened principles to a world darkened by the depths of inhumanity. A year of commemorative events culminated in a special session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in December that was attended by...

On October 2, 2001, two Palestinian gunmen infiltrated a Jewish community in the northern Gaza Strip and killed a 19-year-old Israeli soldier and her 20-year-old boyfriend. They wounded 15 other Israelis before eventually being shot by Israeli police snipers. In a prerecorded ...

As troops moved south across the border into Gaza Strip late Saturday, the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement calling it the "second phase" of Israel's attempt to disable Hamas by force. "The objective of this stage is to destroy the terrorist i...