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Israel-Gaza conflict: Medics struggle to treat Gaza's casualties as clean water and fuel run dangerously low
The aid effort in Gaza was sure to follow the first reports of civilian casualties. Yesterday, as the number of deaths and injuries increased, humanitarian workers were struggling to access those most in need.
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UN: 80 per cent of Palestinians killed in Israeli offensive are civilians
US says it does not want to see a ground offensive in Gaza Strip that would put more civilians at risk, as United Nations says dozens of women and children are among the dead
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Israel Electric Corp. workers brave rockets, restore power to Gaza
On Sunday, a Hamas rocket downed a high-power line that supplied electricity to Gaza, plunging 70,000 Gazans into darkness Despite ongoing rocket fire, Israeli technicians don bulletproof vests and special helmets and repair the damage.
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Report: Hamas proposes 10-year cease-fire in return for conditions being met
One day after an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire accepted by Israel, but rejected by Hamas, fell through, the terrorist organization proposed a 10-year end to hostilities in return for its conditions being met by Israel, Channel 2 reported Wednesday.
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Tunnel infiltration thwarted near Kibbutz Sufa
The Israeli army thwarted a large-scale infiltration attempt along the Gaza border, during which 13 armed Palestinians emerged from a tunnel on the Israeli side of the border at dawn Thursday, an army spokesperson said.
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Israel Defense Forces starts Gaza ground offensive
Netanyahu's office says purpose of mission is to destroy terror tunnels and seriously harm the infrastructure of Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Gaza.
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Obama expresses concerns to Netanyahu about civilian Gaza deaths
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday said he spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the situation in Gaza, underscoring the U.S. support for Israel to defend itself but raising concerns about consequences of wider conflict.
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Life — if you can call it that — under Israel’s Iron Dome
Tel Aviv, in general, is privileged. We are dealing with a fraction of the rockets launched daily at southern cities, where people are being told to go into bunkers every hour to avoid rockets. Over the radio I hear about shrapnel injuries, a civilian who died of a heart attack on the way to the bunker, a Bedouin killed from a Hamas rocket explosion.
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Another Gaza Hospital Hit by Israeli Strike; Four Dead, 40 Hurt
Israeli forces fired a tank shell at a hospital in Gaza on Monday, killing at least four people and injuring 40 others, health officials said. It was the third hospital Israel's military has struck since launching a ground offensive in Gaza last week. The four people killed at al-Aqsa Hospital on Monday included one patient and three visitors, health officials told NBC News.
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Gaza crisis: Palestinian death toll climbs past 500 as hospital is hit
The Palestinian death toll in the conflict between Hamas and Israel reached 548 on Monday as officials said four were killed when a Gaza hospital was hit by Israeli fire.
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Rockets Found In Second U.N. School In Gaza
Rockets have been found stored in a second United Nations-run school in Gaza, according to the U.N. agency that works with the schools. “Today, in the course of the regular inspection of its premises, UNRWA discovered rockets hidden in a vacant school in the Gaza Strip,” the UNRWA release reads. “As soon as the rockets were discovered, UNRWA staff were withdrawn from the premises, and so we are unable to confirm the precise number of rockets.
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Hamas Refuses International Cease-Fire Efforts - Again
Hamas continues to be uncompromising in its position regarding an international cease-fire, AFP reports Wednesday. "We reject today and will reject in the future," Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Meshaal insisted, in a public speech in Qatar.
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This Is Why People Are Sending Pictures Of Dead Children To Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell didn’t expect to get pictures of dead children sent to him after donating a large sum of money to an Israeli charity, but the X-Factor judge was given a hard lesson from the other side of the Arabic conflict.
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US intelligence source claims Hamas has many more tunnels than Israel says
American satellites have preliminary findings of around 60 tunnels on the Israel-Gaza border, according to senior official; number could actually be higher.
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Pause in the Fighting Gives Civilians on Both Sides a Moment to Take Stock
When a temporary cease-fire began on Saturday morning, Akram Qassim joined the throngs of Palestinians who emerged from their homes and temporary shelters. But when he reached his extended family’s three-story building, he found only a crater left by an Israeli airstrike.
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Israel condemned over 'European terror' propaganda tweets
Tweets showing doctored images including a hijab-clad Mona Lisa from Israeli diplomats in Dublin removed amid criticism
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Children killed in Gaza playground shelling
Missiles have struck several sites in Gaza, including a park inside a refugee camp and an outpatient building of the strip's largest hospital, disrupting a relative lull at the start of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday. Eight people, including seven children, died following missile fire on a park inside the Shati refugee camp on the edge of Gaza City, medics said.
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7 Things to Consider Before Choosing Sides in the Middle East Conflict
Are you "pro-Israel" or "pro-Palestine"? It isn't even noon yet as I write this, and I've already been accused of being both. These terms intrigue me because they directly speak to the doggedly tribal nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Exodus: Why Europe's Jews Are Fleeing Once Again
The mob howled for vengeance, the missiles raining down on the synagogue walls as the worshippers huddled inside. It was a scene from Europe in the 1930s – except this was eastern Paris on the evening of July 13th, 2014. Thousands had gathered to demonstrate against the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. But the protest soon turned violent – and against Jews in general. One of those trapped told Israeli television that the streets outside were “like an intifada”, the Palestinian uprising against Israe
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Tunnels Lead Right to the Heart of Israeli Fear
The curved concrete top of the tunnel grazes the dark-brown buzz cut of Lt. Col. Oshik Azulai, putting it 5 feet and 7 inches above the sand floor. The walls are about 30 inches apart — wide enough for two people to squeeze past each other, unless both are in body armor. It is cool in the tunnel, 46 feet under, and dark, of course. Cellphones do not work.
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