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Breaking News Gaza Peace Deal Starts To Take Hold
Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement ruling the Gaza Strip agreed on Wednesday to an Egyptian-sponsored ceasefire to halt an eight-day conflict that killed 162 Palestinians and five Israelis. Both sides fought right up to 9 p.m (1900 GMT) when hostilities were due to stop, with several explosions shaking Gaza City and rockets hitting the…
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Breaking News As Bombs Fly, Pushing for Three-Day Ceasefire
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday pursued a Gaza truce, with Israel and Hamas still at odds over key terms, as Israeli air strikes shook the enclave and a bomb exploded on a Tel Aviv bus. After talks in Ramallah with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Clinton held a second meeting with Israeli Prime Minister…
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Breaking News 3 Palestinian Journalists Killed in Airstrike
Two cameramen working for al-Aqsa TV and an educational programming director for the al-Quds channel, both affiliated with Gaza’s Hamas government, were killed by Israeli air strikes on their cars on Tuesday. The cameramen were killed in their car not far from the main Shifa hospital in Gaza city. The al-Quds programme director was killed…
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Breaking News Clinton Promises To Work for Gaza Truce
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday and pledged to work for a truce in the Gaza Strip “in the days ahead”. As the two began late-night talks in Jerusalem, Palestinian rocket fire and Israeli air strikes continued. Netanyahu said he would prefer a “long-term” diplomatic solution but repeated…
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Breaking News Few Militants Among Gaza Victims
Farmers on their way to sell vegetables in the marketplace, vendors of purified drinking water and people who just happened to live too close to the targets of Israeli air strikes were among the 34 Palestinians estimated to have been killed in Israel Defense Forces attacks in the past two days alone. Just six of…
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Breaking News 57% of Americans Support Israel’s Gaza Stance
A poll showed a majority of Americans back Israel’s launch of a retaliatory attack on the Gaza Strip. Asked whether “Israel was justified or unjustified in taking military action against Hamas and the Palestinians in the area known as Gaza,” 57 percent responded “Yes, justified” and 25 percent answered “No, not justified,” according to a…
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Breaking News World Leaders Push for Gaza Ceasefire
The U.N. chief called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton headed to the region with a message that escalation of the week-long conflict was in nobody’s interest. Nevertheless, Israeli air strikes and Palestinian rocket fire continued for a seventh day. Egypt was trying to…
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Opinion Israel and Gaza Trapped in Tragic Tape Loop
How much collateral damage is too much? That is a question that should be asked regarding America’ drone operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it cannot be answered except episodically because nothing about those operations is available for public scrutiny. It is also a question which must be asked of Israel in connection with its…
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