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Breaking News Gaza Drowns in Sewage as Egypt Cuts Fuel Supplies in Hamas Feud
Children waded through sewage submerging the streets of a central Gaza neighbourhood on Thursday, a day after one of the blockaded Palestinian enclave’s largest waste water treatment plants stopped for lack of fuel. Fetid muck, which bubbles up from manholes and overflows from the idle plant when waste goes untreated, could soon spill into the…
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Breaking News Young and British-Educated, Isra Al-Modallal Is New Public Face of Hamas
The Islamist Hamas group, long shunned by the West and increasingly isolated in the Middle East, has appointed its first spokeswoman, a 23-year-old who used to live in Britain and speaks with a Yorkshire accent. Isra Al-Modallal’s job is to convey the views of the Hamas government that controls Gaza to the foreign media. She…
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Opinion Gaza Teens Marry, Cars Run on Fumes — and Isolated Hamas Eyes a Way Out
The wedding photos tell a startling story: a Palestinian bride and groom, just 14 and 15 years old, respectively, tie the knot in a small village in the Gaza Strip. The half dozen images included a few lines of impressionistic commentary from the Reuters shutterbug who took them. It quickly began to make the rounds…
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Breaking News U.N. Halts Gaza Projects Amid Israel Blockade
The U.N. said on Tuesday it had halted work on all but one of its 20 Gaza building projects as a result of an Israeli ban on importing building materials into the Palestinian enclave. Israel imposed the ban after discovering on Oct. 13 a 2.5-km (1-1/2-mile) tunnel which it said militants planned to use for…
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Breaking News Hamas Militant Killed By Israeli Tank Fire in the Gaza Strip, Another Injured
A Hamas militant was killed and another critically wounded by Israeli tank fire in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, medical sources said. Clashes broke out in the area after a number of Israeli tanks crossed the border fence into the Gaza Strip in an area close to where Israel earlier in October uncovered a…
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Breaking News Israel Approves New Jewish Settlements After Freeing 26 Palestinian Prisoners
Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners on Wednesday as part of U.S.-brokered peace efforts, but said it was pressing on with plans to build more homes for Jewish settlers, in an apparent move to appease hardliners. The inmates, who were convicted of killing Israelis, basked in a heroes’ welcome from hundreds of relatives and well-wishers in…
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Opinion Should Israel Cut Hamas Some Slack Despite Terror Tunnel Discovery?
It hasn’t gotten much attention outside Israel, but that so-called terror tunnel uncovered by the Israeli military near Gaza in early October was just the tip of a major strategic dilemma confronting the Jewish state. And like so many of Israel’s puzzles these days, the debate over how to handle it is causing tension between…
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Breaking News Israel Strikes Gaza as Prisoner Release Looms
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets at a southern Israeli coastal city on Monday and Israel’s Iron Dome interceptor shot down one while the other fell into the sea, a military spokeswoman said. Within hours, Israel’s air force bombed what a military spokesman described as two concealed rocket launchers in northern Gaza. There…
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