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Fast Forward Israel Launches Gaza Strikes After Hamas Fires 18 Rockets
Israel launched air strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday in response to Palestinian rockets fired after Egyptian-mediated talks failed to extend a 72-hour truce in the month-long war. Egypt later called for a resumption of the ceasefire, saying only a few points remained to be agreed. Palestinian factions said they would meet Egyptian mediators…
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Fast Forward Hamas Executes Palestinians as Israeli Spies During Gaza War
Hamas said on Thursday it had executed several Palestinians on suspicion of helping Israeli forces during the month-long Gaza war. “The spies were executed after they were caught red-handedly informing on the whereabouts of the resistance (or) disrupting the work of resistance men and defusing ambushes prepared against the enemy,” Al-Majd, a pro-Hamas website, quoted…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Move Closer To War Crimes Case Against Israel
The possibility of a war crimes investigation into the conduct of Israeli forces in Gaza, until recently unthinkable, has grown after the Palestinians said this week they wanted to become a party to the International Criminal Court. The world’s permanent war crimes court in The Hague declined two years ago to investigate allegations against the…
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Opinion All Your Gaza Questions Answered in 1 Interactive Map
Confused about Gaza? You’re not alone. Le Monde has created an animated map to help people who can’t tell Gaza from the West Bank navigate the facts. Say what you will about supposed French bias against Israel, the map is fairly informative, easy to follow and essentially lays out the bare bones of a very…
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Fast Forward U.S. Attitudes Towards Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Haven’t Changed Since 2002
Americans’ attitudes on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are little changed from 2002, a new Gallup poll found. The poll published Tuesday and conducted Aug. 2-3 found that Americans’ views of the conflict have changed little over the past 10 days — or the past 12 years. Respondents are about evenly divided over whether Israel’s actions in…
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Fast Forward Gaza Child Death Toll Over 400: UNICEF
More than 400 children have been killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza, and almost a thousand times as many are traumatized and face an “extraordinarily bleak” future, the top UNICEF official in Gaza said on Tuesday. Pernille Ironside, head of the field office run by the U.N. children’s agency in Gaza, said rebuilding children’s lives…
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Opinion Jews Shouldn’t Blame Palestinians for Getting Killed
Getty Images For Israelis and Palestinians, as well for their friends and family around the world, these past few weeks have been torture. Each day for Israel brings new rocket attacks, new cross-border terrorist raids, new funerals and shivas for IDF soldiers. Each day for Palestinians in Gaza brings new rounds of artillery shelling, fresh…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Charge ‘Clear Evidence’ of Gaza War Crimes — Meet With ICC
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki said there was “clear evidence” of war crimes by Israel during its offensive in Gaza as he met International Criminal Court prosecutors on Tuesday to push for an investigation. Malki visited The Hague shortly after Israel and the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement that rules Gaza entered a 72-hour truce mediated…
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