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MetroWoman from Hackney on Gaza aid flotilla in Israel jailBBC NewsA woman from east London who was in the aid flotilla attacked by Israeli commandos is in a prison in the southern Israeli city of Be'er Sheva. ...Concern for relatives in flotillaThe Press Associationall 13 news articles »
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Globe and MailIsrael holding three Canadians after botched raid on flotillaAFPOTTAWA, Canada — Three Canadians are being held by Israeli authorities following a botched raid on an aid flotilla that left nine dead, a Canadian official ...Three Canadians aboard raided Gaza flotillaGlobe and MailThree Canadians being held after raid on Gaza flotillaToronto StarVictoria activist caught in Israeli attack willing to risk his life: friendVictoria Times ColonistLondon Free Press -CTV.ca -Toronto Sunall 183 news articles »
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East Bay residents among group on flotilla that was attacked in IsraelSan Jose Mercury News(Dan Honda/Staff) The fate of four East Bay residents who were part of flotilla that was attacked by Israeli commandos remained unknown Monday evening. ...Bay Area activists' families await word on raidSan Francisco Chronicleall 71 news articles »
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ABC NewsEXCLUSIVE: American Onboard Attacked Flotilla Describes ChaosABC News (blog)Peck said they had been told Israelis might attempt to block the flotilla, and that those aboard his smaller ship had discussed in advance how they would ...Wife: Israel sending American on seized ship homeThe Associated Pressall 255 news articles »
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Web Pulse: A sinkhole, the Gores split and flotilla falloutCNN (blog)Flotilla fallout - The world is trying to keep up with the fast-moving story about the Israeli raid on an aid flotilla into Gaza that resulted in at least ...and more »
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Ha'aretzSources: Arab citizens aboard flotilla to be freedCNN (blog)Citizens of Arab countries on the flotilla are being prepared for release, two diplomatic sources said Tuesday. All Arab citizens besides Egyptians will be ...Gaza flotilla: MK Zuabi released; Raed Salah remains for questioningYnetnewsUS Arab leaders condemn Israel raid on aid shipsChicago TribuneSalah's sister enrages demonstratorsYnetnewsDetroit Free Press -Jerusalem Post -Al-Bawabaall 48 news articles »
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NEWS.com.auCondemnation across Europe after Israel raid on Freedom FlotillaChristian Science MonitorDemonstrators take part in a protest to denounce Israel's raid Monday on the Freedom Flotilla taking humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip, ...Israel expects US to deflect outcry over flotillaReutersPressure Grows on Israel After Fatal Raid on Gaza Aid FlotillaVoice of AmericaTurkish foreign minister: Israeli raid on Gaza aid flotilla 'like 9/11' for ...Washington PostBBC News -Jerusalem Post -The Guardianall 12,046 news articles »
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CBC.caWallander author Henning Mankell said to be in custody following Gaza flotilla ...The GuardianThe German foreign ministry confirmed that six of a known 11 German citizens who were part of the flotilla were still missing. Five activists, among them ...Israel releases crime writer Mankell after boat raid: reportAFPIsraeli raid nabs Wallander creator, Henning MankellBaltimore Sun (blog)Novelist Henning Mankell emerges unscathedThe AustralianDaily Mail -Entertainment Weekly -CBC.caall 86 news articles »
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Kansas City StarObama White House wants investigation of Israel flotilla incidentUSA TodayWhite House spokesman Robert Gibbs sought to stay as neutral as possible today regarding the Israeli attack on a flotilla seeking to break the Gaza blockade ...Obama administration seeks a fine line after Israel's raid of Gaza flotilla ...Los Angeles Times (blog)Obama, Netanyahu and the Free Gaza flotillaWashington Post (blog)PM: Flotilla was no peace sailYnetnewsThe Atlantic -Jewish Telegraphic Agency -Reutersall 1,696 news articles »
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Indymedia UKEdinburgh today - Edinburgh activist among Gaza flotillaThe GuardianAn activist from Edinburgh is among the flotilla of ships that was boarded by Israeli troops yesterday, resulting in the deaths of at least nine people. ...MSP received flotilla attack textThe Press Associationall 34 news articles »
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... Rami Almeghari, The Electronic Intifada, 30 November 2009 "From the besieged Gaza Strip, we call upon all peace lovers around the globe to come here to participate in our Gaza Freedom March that is aimed at breaking a repressive...
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...into the Gaza Strip with the 40 aid-laden wagons and trucks," he said. Israel has been imposing a tight blockade on the Gaza Strip since June 2007, after Hamas took control of the coastal enclave and routed Western-supported President Mahmoud Abbas' security...
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/26/content_11434522.htm
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2009-05-16 12:31:30 - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Continue to Impose a Total Siege on the Gaza Strip.
a total siege on
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PR-Inside.com
http://www.pr-inside.com/pchr-on-israeli-violations-in-opt-r1258080.htm
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(IsraelNN.com) In February, donor nations pledged billions in aid for Hamas-controlled Gaza. Now, donors are facing a dilemma – how can they rebuild Gaza without benefiting Gaza's leaders?
In early June, the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee for Assistance to
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Arutz Sheva
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131361
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...than fighting Unlike many young Palestinian, leaving Gaza for a better life abroad is not on the agenda for the members of Gaza's most famous rap band, the Darj Team. Formed in 2004, the band now has many fans both in Gaza and beyond. I met five of the...
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BBC News
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...in Gaza. About 80,000 cubic metres of raw sewage is being discharged into the Mediterranean at six main points along Gaza's coast every day, presenting a major health risk to the Gaza population, according to the WASH report. es/at/cb © IRIN. All rights...
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Reuters Alert Net
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...Hashlamoun ( WEST BANK POLITICS BUSINESS FOOD DRINK) REF: RTXDZ7D_MAIN_PICTURE3 REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA POLITICS ENVIRONMENT) Palestinians fill bottles with water from a public tap in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip April 20, 2009....
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The International NGO, Human Rights Watch (HRW) is once again proving once again why its top banana Ken Roth is a perennial nominee for the Self Hating Jew Awards. They have a simple strategy, Advocacy not Accuracy.
HRW is famous for inventing and/or
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Yid With Lid
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/03/human-rights-watch-on-gaza-advocacy-not.html
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MIDEAST:
RAMALLAH, Mar 17 (IPS) - As environmental experts, NGOs and government officials gather in Istanbul this
week to attend the Fifth World Water Forum, the International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC) has drawn attention to the
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Inter Press Service
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46135
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More than a month after Israel's assault on Gaza ended, life for Gaza's 1.5 million Palestinians continues to be a daily struggle. Israel maintains a suffocating siege that blocks the flow of basic staples, plunging the vast majority of residents into
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Counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/ruder03132009.html
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CAIRO - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden called Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip a "holocaust" and lashed out yesterday in an audio recording at Arab governments that he said failed to stop the bloodshed.
Bin Laden, whose message was released in
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Boston Globe
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(IsraelNN.com) It was disclosed Sunday night that terrorists in Gaza fired at workers and heavy equipment involved in work on the southern part of the Gaza security fence near Kibbutz Nirim. Soldiers at the scene returned fire.
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Arutz Sheva
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/161842
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...a viable basis for opening up Gaza sustainably, we'll be back in this situation again." The BBC asked: "Now that you've seen Gaza the way that it is, do you think that the damage that Israel has done here and the blood that it shed as well is proportionate...
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Big News Network
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...to rule the Gaza Strip. The Hizbullah Palestine Brigades is a small group that was formed shortly prior to the recent war on Gaza and which has close ties to the Lebanese Hizbullah. After firing missiles on Israeli settlements, the group issued statements...
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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...Gaza" may not be a great solution, but it is by far the most practical solution for the ever-worsening situation in the Gaza Strip. And if someone truly cares about Gazans and supports Human Rights beyond mere rhetoric, they would stand behind this initiative....
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FrontPage Magazine
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(IsraelNN.com) A Gaza donors conference is expected to begin in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday. Representatives from 75 countries are participating in the conference whose purpose is to gather funds for the renovation of Gaza after Operation Cast Lead.
The
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Arutz Sheva
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/161523
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A Palestinian man searches through rubble in an area destroyed in Israel's latest incursion into Gaza, in Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip.
CAIRO A senior Arab League official says Arab countries have not delivered any of the more than $1 billion they
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FOX News
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...in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday, killing a Palestinian militant and further straining a truce with Hamas (ap) GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP)- A missile from an Israeli aircraft struck a car traveling in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday, killing a Palestinian...
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World Military Forum
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The tenuous cease-fire between Israel and Gaza Strip militants faced its most serious test on Tuesday following a deadly Palestinian attack on an Israeli army unit patrolling the Gaza Strip border.
One Israeli soldier was
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McClatchy
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・IDF spokesman told Xinhua that it has completed troops pullout from the Gaza Strip.
・Spokesman: Israeli army are redeploying alongside the Gaza Strip of Israeli side.
・Earlier Tuesday before Obama was inaugurated, Israel had withdrawn most of its
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/21/content_10696181.htm
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (C) speaks to journalists in Gaza City January 20, 2009, in front of the United Nations compound that was struck by Israeli fire during Israel's offensive. Voicing shock at stark scenes of destruction, Ban visited
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People's Daily Online
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90856/6578476.html
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GAZA, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- A "fragile" peace was
restored in the Gaza Strip Monday after Israel announced a tentative ceasefire
with Hamas and withdrew its troops from Gaza after a 22-day offensive.
The truce, taking effect at 2:00 a.m. local
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/20/content_10690718.htm
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Israeli soldiers leave the Gaza strip after a combat mission, on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009. (AP / Sebastian Scheiner)
A Palestinian man clears the rubble out of his house, damaged in the Israeli army operation in Gaza, in Rafah southern Gaza Strip, on
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CTV
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On Sunday, just hours after the Israeli statement, Hamas announced that it too was declaring a weeklong cease-fire, while also demanding that Israeli troops withdraw from Gaza within the week.
After holding talks with European leaders in Jerusalem on
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Time Magazine
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...in one or two days, the ceasefire will collapse." Caoimhe Butterly, an Irish human rights activist working in Jabalia and Gaza City as a volunteer with ambulance services, said "Israel should stop killing innocent people and a complete withdrawal of Israeli...
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People's Daily Online
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/6576202.html
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15 January 2009
By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Gaza
THE Palestinian death toll in Israel’s Gaza offensive topped 1,000 yesterday, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said, while Egyptian mediators continued to press both sides for a ceasefire.
The Gaza-based
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Irish Examiner
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WASHINGTON: Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has issued a 22-minute audio statement calling for jihad, or holy war, to stop Israeli "aggression" in Gaza, the US-based Intel Center monitoring service reported Wednesday.
In the statement, titled "A Call
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The News
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=65053
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Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip enters its 18th day. Israeli ground forces are pushing slowly but steadily into the more densely populated areas of Gaza City. Talks about a cease-fire continue in Cairo, but it doesn't look as if they're making any
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NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99276437
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"But they feel their objectives have not been met yet. Phase three could be very dangerous for the Israeli soldiers. Hamas knows the territories very well and are preparing for the urban battle.
Israel has dropped
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Al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2009/01/200911171429288432.html
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The Gaza conflict is showing no signs of abating. Israel has attacked dozens of Hamas targets, including rocket launching sites and weapons stores.
There are also reports that Israel has dropped leaflets on Gaza strip warning residents of an escalation
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NDTV
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20090079604
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...Palestinian civilians who are living there. Even a temporary suspension of aid deliveries means that hundreds of thousands of Gazans may have to go without food, water, blankets, medicine and other supplies for days longer. In both incidents, relief officials...
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McClatchy
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/59281.html
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...them several miles south of Gaza in El-Arish or elsewhere in the barely populated Sinai Peninsula. Israeli policy toward Gaza needs to take these factors into account. The links which existed once between Gaza and Ramallah no longer exist. That link was neither...
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Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1231167305704
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- While one part of the Palestinian territories faces the fiercest Israeli onslaught in years, there is little to remind people in the other part of the war except for news reports, requests for blood donations and flags
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ReadingEagle.com
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_PALESTINIANS_WEST_BANK_VIEW?SITE=PAREA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- While one part of the Palestinian territories faces the fiercest Israeli onslaught in years, there is little to remind people in the other part of the war except for news reports, requests for blood donations and flags flying at
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/842828.html
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Dozens of journalists waited at Israeli-Gaza border, watching the military operation in Gaza, as Israel refuses to let any media cross into the strip.
Since the Israel Defense Forces "Cast Lead" operation in Gaza Strip began 11 days ago, the Israeli
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People's Daily Online
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/6568117.html
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Israel launches a massive air assault against Hamas infrastructure in Gaza, controlled by the Islamist movement since June 2007.
Israel says "Operation Cast Lead," an attack on an unprecedented scale on a Palestinian territory since 1967, is aimed at
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The Seferm Post
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BreakingNewsPoliticsElection-Sefermpost/~3/503479752/timeline-israels-offensive-in-gaza.html
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... Civilian casualty ⦠Palestinians carry a wounded boy into Shifa Hospital, Gaza City. For 10 days doctors have been battling to keep the hospital running. Photo: AP/Ashraf Amra The Gaza propaganda war Video: Television and Second Life are enlisted by Israel...
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Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/stench-in-the-air-scant-resources-stretched-to-exhaustion/2009/01/05/1231003936972.html
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...CITY, Gaza Strip Thousands of Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships surrounded Gaza's largest city and fought militants at close range Sunday, the first full day of an overwhelming ground offensive in the coastal territory. Israel said it...
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The Monroe News Star
http://thenewsstar.com/article/20090105/NEWS01/901050306/-1/rss
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Israeli forces have been pressing on with a military incursion into the Gaza Strip, backed
up by air strikes. Israeli military officials say dozens of targets linked to the Islamist
militant group Hamas have been hit over the past few hours. Israeli
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Deutsche Welle
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/function/0,,12215_cid_3921011,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
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...- including at the Ashkelon power plant that provides Gaza with much of its electricity. Since Israel evacuated all of Gaza in Aug. 2005 to pave the way for an independent, peaceful Palestinian state, terrorist groups in Gaza have fired more than 6,500 rockets,...
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