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Israel Kills 30 In Gaza, Including Aid Seekers, Amid Iran Conflict: Health Authorities
Israeli gunfire and strikes killed at least 30 people across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities said, as some Palestinians there said their plight was being forgotten as attention shifted to the air war between Israel and Iran.
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Israel And UN Clash Over Aid To Gaza
Israel accused the United Nations Wednesday of seeking to "block" Gaza aid distribution, as the global body said it was doing its utmost to gather the limited assistance greenlighted by Israel's authorities.
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"Will Die Of Hunger, Cold If Not Bombing," Say Gazans As Winter Arrives
When Khulud Jarboueh and her children fled their home in the northern Gaza Strip under Israeli bombardment in early October, the young ones were wearing just shorts and T-shirts.
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Israel Deports Tunisia Ex-President After Halting Gaza Bid
Israel has deported Tunisian ex-president Moncef Marzouki and European parliament member Ana Miranda after they took part in a flotilla seeking to defy its Gaza blockade, an official said.
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Israel Navy Seizes Ship Seeking to Break Gaza Blockade: Army
Israeli naval forces boarded and took over an activist vessel seeking to break the Gaza blockade, and were escorting it to an Israeli port early today, the military said, saying that the navy did not use force.
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Israeli PM: Turkey looked for a fight on ship
Israel's prime minister defended the deadly commando raid on an international flotilla protesting the Gaza blockade in opening testimony before an internal inquiry commission Monday, and suggested Turkey had sought the violent confrontation on board.Benjamin Netanyahu told the commission that Ankara had rejected Israel's prior appeals to halt the f...
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EU envoy urges Israel to open Gaza blockade
The international community must pressure Israel to go beyond easing its Gaza embargo and throw open the territory's long-blockaded borders, the EU foreign policy chief has said after a tour of the Hamas-run coastal strip.Catherine Ashton is the most senior diplomat to visit Gaza since Israel announced earlier this month that it would relax its thr...
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Israel ease curbs on 'civilian' goods into Gaza
Israel's cabinet on Sunday gave its approval to ease the three-year land blockade of the Gaza Strip to allow all "civilian" goods into the enclave in a bid to quell mounting international criticism following a bloody sea raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Hamas-run territory.
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Gaza flotilla attack: Israel rejects Ban's call for global probe panel
Israel on Sunday rejected UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon's call to establish an international panel of inquiry into its raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla last Monday that left nine people dead.
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Gaza-bound aid vessel tailed by Israeli warships
Israeli warships were tailing a Gaza-bound aid boat on Saturday just a few dozen miles (kilometers) from the blockaded Palestinian territory, determined not to let it reach Gaza despite international outrage over Israel's deadly takeover of another aid ship earlier this week.
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Israel must lift blockade of Gaza immediately: UN chief
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has demanded that Israel lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip immediately in the wake of a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.Speaking on his return from visits to Brazil, Malawi and Uganda on Wednesday, Ban told reporters that the underlying problem behind Monday's tragedy was the long-running, crippling Israeli siege of ...
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Israel holds hundreds seized during raid on flotilla
A day after Israeli commandoes raided an aid flotilla seeking to breach the blockade of Gaza, Israel held more than 600 activists seized aboard the convoy on Tuesday as news reports said activists may be planning a fresh attempt to ferry supplies to the Hamas-run enclave.
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Israel Kills 30 In Gaza, Including Aid Seekers, Amid Iran Conflict: Health Authorities
Israeli gunfire and strikes killed at least 30 people across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities said, as some Palestinians there said their plight was being forgotten as attention shifted to the air war between Israel and Iran.
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Israel And UN Clash Over Aid To Gaza
Israel accused the United Nations Wednesday of seeking to "block" Gaza aid distribution, as the global body said it was doing its utmost to gather the limited assistance greenlighted by Israel's authorities.
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"Will Die Of Hunger, Cold If Not Bombing," Say Gazans As Winter Arrives
When Khulud Jarboueh and her children fled their home in the northern Gaza Strip under Israeli bombardment in early October, the young ones were wearing just shorts and T-shirts.
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Israel Deports Tunisia Ex-President After Halting Gaza Bid
Israel has deported Tunisian ex-president Moncef Marzouki and European parliament member Ana Miranda after they took part in a flotilla seeking to defy its Gaza blockade, an official said.
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Israel Navy Seizes Ship Seeking to Break Gaza Blockade: Army
Israeli naval forces boarded and took over an activist vessel seeking to break the Gaza blockade, and were escorting it to an Israeli port early today, the military said, saying that the navy did not use force.
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Israeli PM: Turkey looked for a fight on ship
Israel's prime minister defended the deadly commando raid on an international flotilla protesting the Gaza blockade in opening testimony before an internal inquiry commission Monday, and suggested Turkey had sought the violent confrontation on board.Benjamin Netanyahu told the commission that Ankara had rejected Israel's prior appeals to halt the f...
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EU envoy urges Israel to open Gaza blockade
The international community must pressure Israel to go beyond easing its Gaza embargo and throw open the territory's long-blockaded borders, the EU foreign policy chief has said after a tour of the Hamas-run coastal strip.Catherine Ashton is the most senior diplomat to visit Gaza since Israel announced earlier this month that it would relax its thr...
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Israel ease curbs on 'civilian' goods into Gaza
Israel's cabinet on Sunday gave its approval to ease the three-year land blockade of the Gaza Strip to allow all "civilian" goods into the enclave in a bid to quell mounting international criticism following a bloody sea raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Hamas-run territory.
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Gaza flotilla attack: Israel rejects Ban's call for global probe panel
Israel on Sunday rejected UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon's call to establish an international panel of inquiry into its raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla last Monday that left nine people dead.
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Gaza-bound aid vessel tailed by Israeli warships
Israeli warships were tailing a Gaza-bound aid boat on Saturday just a few dozen miles (kilometers) from the blockaded Palestinian territory, determined not to let it reach Gaza despite international outrage over Israel's deadly takeover of another aid ship earlier this week.
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Israel must lift blockade of Gaza immediately: UN chief
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has demanded that Israel lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip immediately in the wake of a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.Speaking on his return from visits to Brazil, Malawi and Uganda on Wednesday, Ban told reporters that the underlying problem behind Monday's tragedy was the long-running, crippling Israeli siege of ...
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Israel holds hundreds seized during raid on flotilla
A day after Israeli commandoes raided an aid flotilla seeking to breach the blockade of Gaza, Israel held more than 600 activists seized aboard the convoy on Tuesday as news reports said activists may be planning a fresh attempt to ferry supplies to the Hamas-run enclave.
