A Hamas-Israel ceasefire could be on its way, but you wouldn't know it. No press conference will be held to announce it. Instead, quiet on Gaza's borders – no rockets going out, no Israeli fire going in – will serve as the declaration that the ceasefire has begun. But this quiet will come with a tension that at any moment the ceasefire could end. And once that happens, major confrontation can be expected.

Israeli police said Thursday they will recommend charges be brought against three journalists who traveled without state permission to "enemy states," Lebanon and Syria.

Escalating violence and Arafat's last resort Ron Ben-Yishai The heating-up in the territories which began last Thursday is not coincidental.