Israeli airstrike kills militant commander in Gaza
An Israeli airstrike killed the commander of the militant group behind the abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit and a second militant in Gaza on Friday in the highest profile attack against the coastal strip in months.
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Hamas official: Gaza militants agree to cease-fire (AP)
AP – Gaza militants agreed to a cease-fire with Israel to stop three days of violence, a Hamas official said Sunday, after a deadly attack on Israelis near the Egypt-Israel border set off a round of Israeli airstrikes and rocket barrages from Gaza.
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Hamas official: Gaza militants agree to cease-fire
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Abbas aide: Hamas doesn’t have to recognize Israel (AP)
AP – International mediators should drop their demand that the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers recognize Israel, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday, just hours before his Western-backed government was to sign a reconciliation deal with Hamas.
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Rival Palestinian factions reach unity agreement (AP)
AP – Rival Palestinian groups said they reached an agreement Wednesday on reuniting their governments in the West Bank and Gaza after years of bitter infighting that weakened them politically and caused the deaths of hundreds in violent clashes and crackdowns since.
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Rival Palestinian factions reach unity agreement
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Israel trains British Army to operate drones; Amnesty …
Amnesty International asserted that British Army personnel have been training in Israel on UAVs deployed in the Gaza Strip. The London-based human rights group said the British Army was learning how to use Israeli UAVs in …
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Israel trains British Army to operate drones; Amnesty International objects
LONDON ? Israel is said to have trained the British Army in unmanned aerial vehicles. Amnesty International asserted that British Army personnel have been training in Israel on UAVs deployed in the Gaza Strip.
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Thousands greet Turkish protest ship (AP)
AP – Thousands of pro-Palestinian activists on Sunday welcomed back to Istanbul the ship that was the scene of bloodshed during an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May. Activists meanwhile, promised to send more ships in an effort to break the Gaza blockade.
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The View from Israel.: GOLDSTONE IS COMING TO HAUNT BRITAIN.
Whichever way the British army likes to squirm, Goldstone is coming to haunt them. When Palestinian civilians were killed in the Gaza Strip they were put down as being ‘deliberately targeted’ by Israel as a sort of ‘collective …
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Neil Hicks: One Year After Cairo Speech: The Imperative of …
In the shadow of the momentous question of who will guide the ship of state when the 30-year president, third in an unbroken line of military autocrats dating back to the 1952 revolution, steps aside, political reform and the …
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Cranmer: Israel, the 'peace activists' and 'world fury'
To the Jew’s the Royal Navy and the British Army soldiers enforcing the blocade where as bad as Nazi’s…..they used ‘ excessive violence’ against ‘unarmed’ jews. British soldiers, ordered to storm the transport vessels to which the …
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Cranmer: Israel, the 'peace activists' and 'world fury'