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Israel approved a cutoff of fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip.
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The UN warned that the situation in Gaza was deteriorating fast in a way that undermined potential progress in planned peace talks, and Israel’s defense minister approved sanctions against Gaza, including cuts in the supply of electricity and fuel.

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Hospitals throughout Gaza have shut down their operating rooms due to a lack of essential anaesthetic drugs, the Hamas de facto administration in the Strip said.
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The Israeli military ordered the seizure of vast new swaths of Palestinian land in the West Bank.
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Israel declared the Gaza Strip a “hostile entity.”
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The Israeli cabinet agreed to free about 90 Palestinian prisoners in a move aimed at boosting support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

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An Israeli tank shell killed three Palestinian children as they approached a rocket launcher in the northern Gaza Strip Wednesday afternoon, witnesses and paramedics said.
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Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are enduring a fifth day of power blackouts. The power outages began after the European Union suspended its funding of Gaza’s main electricity plant.
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Israeli civilians started launching tomatoes, eggs, cucumbers, mangoes, corn on the cob, and eggs into Palestine. “We decided to take things into our own hands,” they said.

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A number of Palestinians who have fled war-torn Iraq will be allowed to come to live in the West Bank, Israeli officials said Monday, presenting the decision as the latest in a series of gestures meant to bolster the moderate Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.
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The Lebanese army has resumed attacks on a Palestinian refugee camp that was the scene of intense fighting last month. More than 150 civilians have fled the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp since clashes broke out Wednesday.
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Israel’s cabinet voted Sunday to release 250 Palestinian prisoners from President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah organization, as a goodwill gesture to the Palestinian leader who is locked in political battle with the rival Hamas movement.
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One third of occupied Israeli territory lies outside of their legally allocated land.
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Palestinian government workers received full salaries for the first time in seventeen months. Palestinian President Mahmound Abbas is refusing to pay salaries to nineteen thousand government workers allied with Hamas.
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BBC correspondent Alan Johnston has been released by kidnappers in the Gaza Strip after 114 days in captivity.
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At least ten Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip earlier today.
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A new video of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston shows him wearing an explosives vest and warning he will be blown up if Hamas continues to surround the area where he is being held, the US-based Intel Center said Sunday in an e-mail to news organizations.
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Hamas offered a ceasefire with Israel if Israel halted operations in Gaza and the West Bank, and Abbas refused to engage in diplomatic discussions with Hamas, calling Hamas: “murderous terrorists, killers and coup seekers.” He also told Israel to back off. “Our problems are not only with Hamas — I emphasize my rejection of any Israeli attempt aiming to take advantage of this disdain, perpetrated by the coup militants, to choke our people,” he said.
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Israel and the United States tacitly agreed on a policy to treat the West Bank and Gaza as separate entities.
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The EU said today it would resume financial aid to the new Fatah-led Palestinian government, as part of international efforts to isolate Hamas in its Gaza stronghold. Meanwhile, Israel has blocked all cargo shipments into Gaza where supplies of fuel, food and medicine are running low. Many areas of Gaza have been without electricity since last week’s fighting.
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