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Fast Forward Israel Launches ‘Limited’ Ground War in Gaza
Israel launched a Gaza ground campaign after 10 days of bombardments from the air and sea failed to stop militants’ rocket attacks, stepping up an offensive that already has taken a heavy toll in civilian lives. Israel signaled the invasion would be limited in scope – targeting tunnels dug by gunmen – and said it…
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Fast Forward Israel Downplays Chance of Permanent Gaza Ceasefire Deal With Hamas
Israeli leaders on Thursday played down prospects of a permanent Gaza ceasefire and fighting returned to a familiar pattern of Palestinian rocket salvoes and Israeli bombing after a five-hour humanitarian truce. An Israeli official said earlier that senior Israeli negotiators in Cairo had approved a full truce, but a final decision lay with the security…
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Fast Forward British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg Blasts Israel for Gaza ‘Collective Punishment’
Israel’s retaliatory air strikes on Gaza have been “deliberately disproportionate” and amount to “collective punishment”, Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Thursday, in unusually robust criticism of a close British ally Clegg made his comments on the tenth day of fighting between Israel and Hamas during a five-hour humanitarian truce which prompted a…
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Fast Forward Israel Accepts Temporary Humanitarian Gaza Truce
Israel on Wednesday agreed to a proposed six-hour cessation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip for humanitarian reasons, a Israeli senior official told Reuters. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it had not yet been decided when the lull would take place. Hamas had no immediate comment. The appeal was made by a…
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Fast Forward With Life in Gaza ‘Living Death,’ Palestinians Say No to Ceasefire
Asked if a quick ceasefire with Israel might at least be welcome for saving lives, Abu Hashem simply scoffed. “We’re living death,” he said. The 50-year old father of two strolled in the shade of a street in Gaza city, unfazed by the periodic thud of bombings. “Israel has put us under siege for eight…
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Fast Forward 4 Gaza Children Killed ‘Playing Soccer’ on Beach — Both SIdes Set Brief Truce
Israeli shelling killed four Palestinian boys on a Gaza beach on Wednesday, an incident the military called tragic, and Israel and Hamas said they would cease attacks for five hours on Thursday for a humanitarian truce requested by the United Nations. Palestinian militants fired more than 130 rockets into Israel on the ninth day of…
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Fast Forward Utah Man Gets 5 Years for Shooting at Salt Lake City Synagogue
A Utah man was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday for shooting into an unoccupied synagogue in Salt Lake City in what federal authorities said was an attack motivated by religious bias. Macon Openshaw, 22, pleaded guilty in a federal court in Utah in April to the civil rights violation of damaging the…
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Fast Forward Israel Targets Top Hamas Man as Truce Collapses — Warns of Invasion
Israel resumed its air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday a day after holding its fire in deference to an Egyptian-proposed cease-fire deal that failed to get Hamas militants to halt rocket attacks. Attacks in the Gaza Strip killed at least seven Palestinians in the early hours of Wednesday, Gaza health officials said, and…
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