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News Source: The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
Israel carried out "wanton" and "deliberate" destruction of the besieged Gaza Strip during a 22-day offensive in December and January, a leading human-rights group said Friday. Unveiling their latest report, "Operation 'Cast Lead': 22 Days of Death...
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News Source: United Press International
| 5 months ago
A Palestinian woman brandishing a toy gun, was wounded by Israeli gunfire after ignoring soldiers' warnings at a checkpoint, the army said. The incident occurred less than a day after a Palestinian teenager was reported killed by Israeli mortar fire...
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News Source: Chicago Tribune
| 5 months ago
Many al Qaeda members and Taliban fled to northwestern Pakistan's ungoverned ethnic Pashtun belt after U.S.-led soldiers ousted Afghanistan's Taliban government in 2001. From their sanctuaries there the militants have orchestrated insurgencies in...
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News Source: Scoop
| 5 months ago
Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, said the Israeli action “implements its cruel blockade of the entire Palestinian population of Gaza.” It also violates...
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News Source: Jerusalem Post
| 5 months ago
The defense establishment is concerned at intensifying legal campaigns in foreign courts that aim to deter Israel from using force against Hamas and Hizbullah. Reeling from four damning reports in one week from human rights organizations about the...
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News Source: Arab News
| 5 months ago
That has now changed with a 118-page report by Amnesty International. It has made detailed, case-by-case investigations into the war, accusing the Israelis and Hamas of war crimes. The report calls for those responsible to be arrested and brought to...
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News Source: CNN
| 5 months ago
A 17-year-old girl was killed and another person was injured on Thursday by Israeli tank fire at the El Marej refugee camp east of Gaza City, hospital sources said. Israel Defense Forces responded to the report by saying a tank fired across the...
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News Source: The Globe & Mail
| 5 months ago
12PM EDT A mnesty International accused Israel and Palestinian militants of war crimes Thursday in the most comprehensive report on the recent Gaza war...Israel used excessive force in violation of international laws of war, killing hundreds of...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
A Palestinian boy holds a Hamas flag over a destroyed house in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Jan. 19, a day after fighting ceased in Israel's 22-day military offensive against the Palestinian militant group. (Hatem Moussa/Associated Press)...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 5 months ago
Israel's military and the Palestinian militant group Hamas are dismissing accusations they are guilty of war crimes. The Israeli military said that a report released Thursday by Amnesty International on Israel's offensive in Gaza last December and...