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Macleans
| over 1 year ago
Peace activists from nine countries have set sail for the Gaza Strip aboard two ships, one of them a Canadian vessel, in another attempt to breach Israel's naval blockade. Canadian activists say the ships, which made a failed attempt to challenge the...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
A boy in Ankara waves Palestinian and Turkish flags at a protest in 2010, after Israelis attacked an aid ship flotilla approaching the Gaza blockade. Photograph: Burhan Ozbilici/AP Two boats carrying pro-Palestinian activists have entered...
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Moreover Silicon Valley
| over 1 year ago
Israeli aircraft Tuesday dropped leaflets warning residents of the Gaza Strip to stay away for 300 meters from the Gaza-Israel border, after three days of violence. According to the leaflets, the Israeli army would take " necessary steps" to distance...
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International Middle East Media Center
| over 1 year ago
The implementation of the offensive, according to the army, will be based on whether the resistance in Gaza resumes the firing of shells. Image rabeta.net The Egyptian government has been actively involved in talks with the Hamas movement in Gaza and...
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Mail Online UK
| over 1 year ago
Higher Palestinian birth rates could lead to power shift in one-state solution Last updated at 8:58 PM on 1st November 2011 Jews could become a minority in Israel if Palestinians are given the vote in a single-state solution, it has been claimed.
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Israel delayed a military operation in the Gaza Strip to stem Palestinian rocket fire due to an Egyptian request to give an additional 24 hours to cease-fire efforts, The Jerusalem Post learned on Tuesday. A small jihadi terror cell in Gaza, and not...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Egypt said on Tuesday that the truce it negotiated between Gaza militants and Israel this week had prevented a "large scale" Israeli military operation against the coastal strip. "The efforts made by Egypt in the past few day culminated in the...
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Lexington Herald-Leader
| over 1 year ago
18am on Nov 1, 2011; Modified: 3:41am on Nov 1, 2011 Rawhi Abdo, the father of Al-Ansar brigade militant Yousef Abu Abdo who was killed in an Israeli airstrike early Monday, reacts as he views his son's body at the morgue of Nasser hospital in Khan...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Classes cancelled in Ashdod, Beersheba, Gan Yavne; 4 projectiles fired in total in latest attack; Iron Dome system intercepts Grad over Beersheba; none hurt, no damage reported; US ambassador condemns continued barrage. Palestinian terrorists in Gaza...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Agencies Israel and Palestinian militants traded threats Sunday after two Islamic Jihad fighters were killed in fresh skirmishes along the tense Gaza Strip border. The escalation of violence came on the eve of the second anniversary of Israel's...
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Fox News
| over 1 year ago
Israel's prime minister has issued a tough warning to Gaza's Hamas rulers, saying those who attack Israel are risking their lives. Benjamin Netanyahu voiced the threat in a policy speech to Israel's parliament. He spoke shortly after his foreign...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Israeli aircraft, retaliating after the firing of projectiles into Israel, struck a rocket-launching cell in Gaza, killing two cell members, officials said. Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip confirmed the strike east of Khan Yunis and said two...
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Canadian Free Press
| over 1 year ago
Accusations of "collective punishment," "disproportionate force," and "extrajudicial targeted assassinations" are regularly hurled at Israel from the chambers of the dysfunctional Human Rights Council Israeli Ambassador's Plea to the Security Council...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| over 1 year ago
The UN's cultural agency faced a crucial vote Monday on whether to grant Palestine full member status, a move that would see it lose millions of dollars in US funding -- more than fifth of its budget. Saudi Arabia (AP) Saudi Arabia says that a...
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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
Taiwan News, Staff Writer Two Gazan civilians were killed by an Israeli drone that launched missile fire near midnight Sunday in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza strip, according to local sources. The Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in Gaza announced a...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday condemned a spike in rocket attacks in the Gaza Strip after the region's worst day of violence in months killed an Israeli and nine Palestinians. An Israeli air strike Sunday killed a Gaza militant just...
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Lexington Herald-Leader
| over 1 year ago
Gaza Strip The Israeli military says its aircraft struck at a rocket squad that attacked Israel from the southern Gaza Strip, and Palestinians officials report that two men were found dead in the area. Palestinian security officials say two bodies...
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The independent
| over 1 year ago
Suggested Topics The armed Palestinian faction Islamic Jihad yesterday declared a conditional ceasefire after a spate of rocket attacks and Israeli airstrikes which killed nine Gaza militants and one Israeli civilian. The uneasy calm, which followed...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
Monday, in a vote that would boost their bid for international recognition as an independent state. U.N. agency the Palestinians have sought to join since President Mahmoud Abbas applied last month for full recognition of Palestinian statehood by the...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Once Hamas was the second- largest armed group in the Gaza Strip, after the Palestinian Authority. With the help of Iran and Syria, Hamas became so strong that one day, in June 2007, its men managed to seize control over the entire Strip. IDF...
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The New York Times
| over 1 year ago
Ali Ali/European Pressphoto Agency In Gaza, Palestinians prayed at a funeral for four Islamic Jihad members killed in Israeli airstrikes. The Israeli military fired on what it said was a terrorist squad in southern Gaza preparing to fire rockets at...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
The IDF said overnight Sunday that its aircraft struck a rocket launching cell in Gaza after it fired a projectile into Israel. "We identified an accurate strike," an IDF spokesman told The Jerusalem Post . Palestinian rocket fired from Gaza explodes...
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Canadian Free Press
| over 1 year ago
Palestinians fire 20 rockets into Israel Thanks to Palestinians and their Arab/Islamic brethren Israel's path is clear At least twenty rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel by Palestinian murderers yesterday, with more no doubt to come...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 1 year ago
At least 10 Palestinians have been killed since Saturday in Israeli air strikes launched in retaliation for a string of rocket attacks which killed an Israeli man. More than 40 rockets have been fired from Gaza since Wednesday, killing one Israeli...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Last Wednesday night, Islamic Jihad fired a Grad rocket that struck near Rehovot to mark the October 1995 assassination in Malta of Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki, a murderously zealous ideologue inspired by the Islamic revolution in Iran and an...
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Haaretz
| over 1 year ago
Channels 10 and 2 cited an unnamed Egyptian official who claimed Cairo was hard at work to obtain a new ceasefire, claiming that the sides had agreed to hold their fire as of Sunday night. The report came as Israeli security officials decided to...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
An Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian militant in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the latest lethal attack in two days of fighting that have left 10 militants and one Israeli civilian dead. The cross-border violence was the worst in several months...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Authorities in Beersheba, Ashdod, Ashkelon and Gan Yavne decide to cancel school despite IDF removing restrictions on public gatherings; 3 projectiles fired from Gaza land near Ashkelon. Despite reports of a cease fire, municipal officials in Ashdod,...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 1 year ago
Story continues below Calm prevailed for some eight hours before Israel mounted a fresh air strike on what the military said was "a terrorist squad that was preparing to fire rockets at Israel", killing one militant and wounding another. The attack...
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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
A new round of violence between Israel and Palestinian militants has Gaza's Hamas rulers caught between reluctance to take on Israel and discomfort with reining in fellow Islamists from smaller, more radical groups involved in the fighting.
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Ynet News
| over 1 year ago
Other southern communities joined the annoucement later. Gan Yavne sustained a Grad rocket hit over the weekend, and council head Dror Aharon said that he treats the army's directives as recommendations only. Ashkelon's Mayor Benny Vaaknin said the...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| over 1 year ago
At least 39 rockets and mortars pounded Israel's south over the weekend, including 11 on Sunday morning...Early Sunday afternoon, reports that Islamic Jihad had accepted an Egyptian-brokered cease fire surfaced following several hours of calm.
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Haaretz
| over 1 year ago
Earlier Sunday, the Israel Air Force on Sunday attacked a militant cell in the Gaza Strip apparently poised to launch rockets at Israel, just hours after the Islamic Jihad announced that it had accepted an Egyptian-mediated truce to end a weekend of...
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
Palestinian medics wheel the body Ahmed Jarghun, a militant with the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, into the al-Najar hospital in Rafah on October 30, 2011 after he was killed in a fresh Israeli raid on Gaza. (AFP...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 1 year ago
Israeli airstrikes killed nine Palestinian members of Islamic Jihad's armed wing in southern Gaza on Saturday, according to the militant group. And Gaza militants fired salvos of rockets at cities in southern Israel, killing one Israeli and wounding...
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Zee News
| over 1 year ago
A ceasefire had appeared to be taking hold, with the frontier quiet for some eight hours, until Israeli aircraft attacked Palestinian militants who the military said were about to fire rockets from the southern Gaza Strip. Medical officials in the...
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International Middle East Media Center
| over 1 year ago
Image by Maan News Agency Website Adham Abu-Silmiyya, medical spokesman in Gaza, told the Maan News Agency that the wounded moved to local hospital with serious injury. On Sunday morning, the Gaza Strip Palestinian groups and Israel agreed on a...
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B92
| over 1 year ago
In response to an earlier airstrike, Palestinian militants have fired rockets into southern Israel killing one person in Ashkelon. The attack came from Gaza, after seven members of the group Islamic Jihad were killed. Israeli authorities say at least...
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The Globe & Mail
| over 1 year ago
It's been a deadly weekend of air attacks and rocket fire as Israeli defence forces and the militant Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad exchanged fire. At least nine Palestinians and one Israeli were killed in 24 hours of shooting. As of midday...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Egyptian officials established a cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza Sunday, putting an end to the weekend violence that left 10 dead. Islamic Jihad militants in the Gaza Strip fired three rockets after the 6 a.m. starting...
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Haaretz
| over 1 year ago
One militant was killed in the attack, according to a Palestinian source. Nine other Palestinian gunmen and an Israeli civilian have been killed since the violence began last week. Militants in Gaza have fired dozens of rockets at Israel in recent...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Earlier cease fire fails to materialize as 4 rockets are fired into Israel following 6 a.m. deadline; 39 projectiles launched within 24 hours; Iron Dome intercepts two more rockets; IDF strikes 6 sites in Gaza overnight. Islamic Jihad , which has...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
A spiralling round of Israeli air strikes and rocket fire from Gaza claimed the lives of nine Palestinian militants and one Israeli civilian on Saturday following weeks of relative calm. The Israeli air force targeted a group of militants in southern...
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Globes Online
| over 1 year ago
15, Globes' correspondent The escalation in southern Israel continues after Moshe Ami, a 56-year-old man from Ashkelon, was killed on Saturday by a Grad rocket fired from Gaza. Israel Air Force (IAF) attacked targets in the Gaza Strip in response.
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Sources close to Gaza militant groups said early Sunday that they were trying to call a halt to rocket fire that brought deadly retaliatory Israeli air strikes. But Israeli police said that rockets continued to rain down on southern Israel, with the...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
The death toll from Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip rose to nine after two more bodies were found, Palestinian medical sources said Sunday. Saturday's air strikes were already known to have killed seven members of the Islamic Jihad group,...
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International Middle East Media Center
| over 1 year ago
The ceasefire was reached following a day of bloody shelling that led to the death of nine Palestinian fighters in Gaza and one Israeli...Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesperson the of Higher Committee of the Medical and Emergency Services in Gaza, stated...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip Saturday killed 10 Islamic Jihad members, the military said, and rocket fire into southern Israel killed a civilian. The Jerusalem Post reported the Israeli military said it struck four targets. The Post said...
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Salem News
| over 1 year ago
Saturday October 29, 2011 Search About Salem-News.com is the premiere Independent Online Newsgroup in the United States. Israeli aircraft struck at Palestinian militants in Gaza according to The Associated Press Saturday. Forces within Gaza responded...
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Ynet News
| over 1 year ago
Consequences Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman Photo: Gil Yohanan Gan Yavne hit boy rocket Photo: Avi Rokach Damages in Ashdod Photo: Titi Tubulina Foreign minister: Persistent rocket fire from Gaza will have implications in coming days Ronen...
