Israel’s air assault on Gaza entered its ninth day on Wednesday, with a total of 220 people killed and 1,550 injured by the attacks so far. The latest Israeli strikes caused the deaths of four children in Gaza City, medics said. The four of them were on the beach when the shelling struck, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. Several …
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On Tuesday, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency described the damage caused by the Israeli air campaign on Gaza as “immense” and said that over 500 homes were razed in the past week. “The level of human losses and destruction in Gaza is really immense. According to our latest figure, we are talking about 174 killed and well over …
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US Secretary for State John Kerry is headed to the Middle East on Tuesday to try and bring a diplomatic end to the devastating conflict between Israel and Hamas. The punishing Israeli air campaign has taken the lives of 177 Palestinians so far, and shows no sign of stopping. Most Arab nations have demanded an immediate end to the campaign, …
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Article and photos by Mohammed Omer in Gaza July 9, 2014: I am writing this as ambulance and rescue crews continue to search for bodies. Among the ones they have uncovered so far are those of 4-year-old Mohammed Nawasra, whose body was found underneath the ruins of his home in the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, his …
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The Gaza Health Ministry has so far confirmed the deaths of 82 Palestinians in Gaza due to Israeli air strikes which started on Tuesday. The deadliest strikes happened on Tuesday and on Thursday, both causing eight deaths – Tuesday’s strike tore down a house in southern Gaza, while Thursday’s strike took out a home in Khan Younis. Of the 82 …
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On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to ramp up the Israeli campaign against Hamas which has cost 43 Palestinian lives so far. Wednesday, the second day of “Operation Protective Edge”, saw the deaths of 21 Palestinians, including 15 women and children, caused by Israeli strikes, setting the overall death toll for the past two days at 43, emergency …
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 20 members of extremist group Islamic State (IS) were killed in Wednesday by Syrian air force raids against the group’s bastion in the city of Raqa. Syrian rebels struck and killed 14 people in overnight strikes in the village ofKhatab in the province of Hama, the Observatory and state media said. “At …
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Israeli warplanes on Tuesday pounded the Gaza Strip to take out Hamas’ rocket fire, killing 13 Palestinians and wounding at least another 90, as the two sides moved closer to another major conflict. The attack, the most serious outburst between the two since November 2012, comes as Israel tries to cope with the wave of violence in Arab Israeli towns …
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The United Nations on Tuesday said that over a thousand people have been killed so far this month in the militant sweep through western and northern Iraq, and that more than 75% of them civilians. At least 1,075 people have been killed, with 658 others injured by the violence in Iraq from June 5th to June 22nd, Rupert Colville, spokesman …
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Fresh violence near the Kenyan coast has led to the deaths of at least 15 people, officials said on Tuesday, a day after Somali Shebab rebels killed almost 50 people in the same region. The al-Qaeda linked Harakat al-Shebab al-Mujahideen said that its fighters executed the attack on a Kenyan village, and its commando unit had been able to return …
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