The Israeli air force struck at least two buildings in Gaza City in the early hours this morning in an apparent response to a raid across the Gaza-Israel border by Palestinian militants on Saturday.
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92% of Palestinians are depressed.
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Israeli troops arrested more than thirty officials in the Hamas-led Palestinian government.
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Eight Palestinians have died after the Israeli Air Force bombed the home of a leading Palestinian lawmaker on Sunday. It was the deadliest strike since Israel began bombing Gaza last week.
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The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, today urged the US to ask Israel to halt its military escalation. Abbas made his appeal as Israeli aircraft struck Gaza for a second day running.
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Three children were among seven Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza Thursday, while four more four died in internal factional fighting.
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Hamas’s television station defied the Hamas-led Palestinian government on Friday by airing a show featuring a Mickey Mouse lookalike that urges children to support armed resistance against Israel. During one of the skits, Farfur told young viewers that he aspired to be like the slain spiritual leaders of Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood.
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The Israeli Prime Minister blamed the military for the failings in the Lebanon war.
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The World Bank today called on Israel to ease its extensive restrictions on the movement of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to fuel a Palestinian economic revival.
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In Israel over 100,000 people took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Thursday demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert over his handling of the Lebanon war. Meanwhile the Labor party is threatening to withdraw from Olmert’s government. Labour is the largest partner in Olmert’s coalition government and its withdrawal could force new elections.
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Hamas declared an end to its ceasefire with Israel, armed protestors dropped the corpse of a murdered man named Hassan Abu Sharkh in the Palestinian Authority Parliament, several rockets struck Israel from Gaza, and the Israel Defense Forces killed three Hamas agents planting a bomb by the Gaza border fence.
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Senator John McCain entertained a crowd at a campaign rally in South Carolina by singing “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” to the tune of “Barbara Ann” by the Beach Boys.
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A majority of people believe that Israel, the United States and Iran have a mainly negative influence in the world, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.
The three countries are closely followed by North Korea.
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The Bush administration will inform Congress on Monday that Israel may have violated agreements with the United States when it fired American-supplied cluster munitions into southern Lebanon during its fight with Hezbollah last summer, the State Department said Saturday.
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Israeli President Moshe Katsav has been suspended as he faces an expected indictment for allegedly committing rape. On Thursday, dozens of Israeli women gathered outside Katsav’s residence in Jerusalem calling on him to resign.
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Israel has named Maj Gen Gabi Ashkenazi as its new military chief, following the resignation last week of his predecessor, Lt Gen Dan Halutz.
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A ten-year-old Palestinian girl died after being shot in the back of the head by Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Anata.
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Fewer Israeli civilians died in Palestinian attacks in 2006 than in any year since the Palestinian uprising began in 2000.
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Israel vehemently denied Sunday a report by a British newspaper which claimed that it plans to attack Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities using nuclear weapons.
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In Israel and the Occupied Territories, new figures released by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem show Israeli forces killed six-hundred and sixty Palestinians this year. B’Tselem says that’s three times more than in 2005. The figure includes one hundred and forty-one children. Nearly half of the total dead were not involved in hostile acts.
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