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Gaza stories: 298 news summaries

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Amnesty: Israel Is Denying Palestinians Water

Report slams Israel's 'total domination' of water supplies

Oct 27, 09 3:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel is guzzling the region's water supply to keep its farmland lush and its lawns green while many Palestinians struggle to get the bare minimum for life, according to an Amnesty International report. The report accuses Israel of using its "total control" over water supplies to discriminate against Palestinians... More »

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Israel • water • Gaza • Amnesty International • West Bank • Israel and Palestinians • water restrictions • Jewish settlers

 Israel Committed 
 War Crimes in Gaza: 
 UN Report 

Fact-finding mission recommends world court prosecutor take action

Sep 29, 09 6:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel committed "actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity" during the three-week Gaza war, according to a UN special report that will be released today. The fact-finding mission, headed by the Jewish South African judge Richard Goldstone, also determined that Palestinian militants committed war crimes, but reserved... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Gaza • war crimes • crimes against humanity • UN Human Rights Council • International Criminal Court • Gaza war • Arab-Israeli conflict • Richard Goldstone

 Majority of Gaza Victims 
 Were Civilians: Rights Group 

252 children among casualties of Israeli operation, group concludes

Sep 9, 09 6:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - The majority of casualties in Israel's operation in Gaza last winter were civilians, a human rights group has concluded, contradicting the official stance of the Israel Defense Forces. According to the NGO B'Tselem, which conducted extensive interviews and has compiled a list of victims' names, 1,387 Palestinians died in... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • Israel Defense Force • NGOs • Gaza war • Arab-Israeli conflict

(Newser) - Hamas launched a raid on an al-Qaeda splinter group's mosque stronghold today, leaving at least 22 dead, including the group’s leader, and around 120 people injured, Reuters reports. The extremist Jund Ansar Allah, or Warriors of God, had provoked Hamas by declaring the establishment of an Islamic “emirate”... More »

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Gaza • Hamas • Islamic extremism • al-Qaeda

 Hamas 'Foiled Carter 
 Assassination Plot' 

Source tells Haaretz militants targeted former prez

Jun 16, 09 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hamas, the Palestinian group that rules the Gaza Strip, foiled an attempt by al-Qaeda-linked militants to assassinate Jimmy Carter, a source tells Haaretz. Hoping to kill the former president as his vehicle left Gaza, militants placed a pair of bombs at a border crossing. Witnesses say that they saw Hamas... More »

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Jimmy Carter • Gaza • Hamas • bomb • assassination attempt • border crossing • al-Qaeda • Gaza blockade

(Newser) - Explosives-laden horses were part of an attempt today by Palestinian militants to plant bombs in Israel, the BBC reports. Israel says it shot and killed four men—who where wearing explosive vests—and their explosive-laden horses after they first fired on a border post. The Israeli response to the men... More »

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Israel • terrorism • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • horse • Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • border

Gaza's Single Ladies to Hamas: Put a Ring on It

Islamic group sees matchmaking as 'humanitarian work'

Jun 6, 09 3:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Washington deems Hamas a terrorist group, but for Gaza’s lonely single women, the Islamic militant group can be a lifesaver, the AP reports. Hamas runs a “marriage and development” service that finds husbands for hundreds of women, often helping those in their 30s—who are considered spinsters. “... More »

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Islam • Gaza • Hamas • women • marriage • Palestinians • matchmaking



 UN Begins Gaza 
 War Crimes Probe 

Israel alleges bias, but Jewish rapporteur draws wide praise

Jun 2, 09 6:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - A UN team investigating possible war crimes by the Israeli army and Hamas has arrived in the Gaza Strip for a weeklong fact-finding mission. Israel is refusing to cooperate with what it calls a "masquerade," alleging that the UN Human Rights Council is unfairly biased. But the selection... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Gaza • Hamas • war crimes • Israel and Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • United Nations Human Rights Council • Gaza war

Hamas: We've Stopped Rocket Attacks on Israel

Boss pledges to be
'part of the solution'
in NYT interview

May 5, 09 10:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hamas has stopped firing rockets at Israel for the time being, its head told the New York Times in a lengthy interview in which he discussed the militant Palestinian group’s goals. “I promise the American administration and the international community that we will be part of the solution,... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Khaled Meshaal • Arab Israeli conflict

 Israel Launches 
 Airstrikes on 
 Gaza Tunnels 

Smuggling tunnels pounded in response to renewed rocket attacks on Jewish state

May 2, 09 8:39 AM CDT
(AP) - Israeli jets struck three smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border today in the second day of renewed airstrikes, the AP reports. There were no reports of injuries. The Israeli military said the strikes—the first in almost two months—were in response to rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestinians • airstrike • smuggling

Prof's Nazi-Israeli Comparison Stirs Uproar

Students, faculty defend instructor amid anti-Semitism charges

Apr 30, 09 6:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - A UC Santa Barbara professor's decision to send his students an email comparing graphic photographs of the Holocaust's Jewish victims to similar shots taken of Palestinians during the recent offensive in Gaza has caused an uproar. Many students and faculty members have expressed support for the professor, who is Jewish,... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Holocaust • professor • Arab Israeli conflict • anti-Semitism • Israeli Army • Nazis • UC Santa Barbara • academic freedom • Anti-Defamation League • Gaza war

 Israel Finds 
 No War Crimes 
 in Gaza Attacks 

Officials say civilian deaths isolated, unintentional

Apr 22, 09 9:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Israel Defense Forces probe has found that no Gaza civilians were intentionally harmed in Israel’s recent incursion into the region, Haaretz reports. IDF colonels who weren’t involved in the fighting found that the IDF “adhered to international law and maintained a high level of professionalism and... More »

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Israel • investigation • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • war crimes • civilian casualties • Palestinians • probe • Arab Israeli conflict • report

(Newser) - Israel used overwhelming force in its recent fight with Hamas because it feared a repeat of the heavy losses sustained in its 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Washington Post reports. Israeli military planners expected Palestinians in Gaza to put up a stronger fight, but it never materialized. The... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Lebanon War • Hezbollah • Israel Defense Force • Gaza war

UN Picks Judge to Probe Israeli 'War Crimes'

Jewish South African will investigate allegations of abuses

Apr 3, 09 5:39 AM CDT
(AP) - The UN has named a Jewish judge from South Africa to lead a high-level mission to investigate alleged war crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, reports the AP. Richard Goldstone, the UN's former chief prosecutor for war crimes in Yugoslavia and Rwanda, will head the probe ordered by... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Gaza • war crimes • South Africa • Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict

 Israel Defends Conduct of Gaza War

Cases of excessive force were rare, army says

Mar 27, 09 2:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Israeli army is defending its actions during the recent Gaza conflict, claiming that, contrary to reports, its soldiers did not act with excessive force or with disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians, the New York Times reports. Officials have moved to discount one story in particular: an... More »

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Israel • Gaza • war crimes • murder • Israel and Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • civilians

(Newser) - A Pat Oliphant cartoon is an attack on Israel, not "hideously anti-Semitic," writes blogger Emily Moulton in Gather. The controversial cartoon shows a woman carrying a small child labeled "Gaza" being pursued by a headless Nazi pushing a giant Star of David with teeth. "The cartoon... More »

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Israel • Gaza • anti-Semitism • Simon Wiesenthal Center • Pat Oliphant • Anti-Defamation League • american jewish committee

Israel Suspected of Jan. Bombing in Sudan

39 died in raid by foreign military, but no confirmation

Mar 26, 09 9:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sudan said today that foreign fighter planes carried out an attack in January on 17 trucks carrying weapons to Gaza, amid reports that the Israeli Air Force was behind the bombardment. The strike killed 39 people near the Sudan-Egypt border soon after the start of the war in the Gaza... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Sudan • Egypt • weapons • airstrike • Israeli Air Force

 Israel Committed Gaza 
 War Crimes: Rights Group 

Human Rights Watch finds army fired white phosphorus at civilians

Mar 26, 09 6:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel's military committed war crimes by repeatedly firing white phosphorus into crowded areas of Gaza, Human Rights Watch said today. A report by the group alleges that Israel chose not to use less dangerous smoke shells and even fired the incendiary agent at the main UN compound in the Strip.... More »

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Israel • Gaza • war crimes • Human Rights Watch • Arab Israeli conflict • Israeli Army • phosphorus

(Newser) - During Israel’s recent Gaza offensive, an increasingly influential corps of military rabbis cast the conflict as one to “expel the non-Jews” from Israel, the Los Angeles Times reports. “This rabbi comes to us and says the fight is between the children of light and the children... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Jews • Palestinians • Israeli Army • rabbi

Israeli Military Condemns Troops' T-Shirts

They show Palestinian children in crosshairs, exploding mosques

Mar 23, 09 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Israel Defense Forces today came out against a series of outrage-inducing T-shirts worn by its soldiers, the AP reports. The shirts, first reported by Haaretz, featured crude jokes about killing Palestinians—one depicts a child in cross-hairs along with the slogan, “The smaller they are, the harder it... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • t-shirts • Israel Defense Force

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