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ANALYSIS

Hamas, Israel Deploy Deadly New Tactics

Civilians pay the price
of 'asymetrical urban warfare'

Jan 11, 09 4:05 PM CST
(Newser) - The disturbing civilian death toll in Gaza is a result of new tactics being deployed by Hamas, Steven Erlanger writes in the New York Times. Hamas militants, trained by Hezbollah and Iran, are said to be systematically hiding weapons in schoolyards, mosques and hospitals, fighting in civilian clothes, using tunnels... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • Israeli offensive • Israeli Army

 Israelis Drive to 
 Heart of Gaza City 

Death tolls edges to 900 in 16-day offensive.

Jan 11, 09 6:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Israeli forces pushed toward the heart of Gaza City today in continued defiance of a UN call for a ceasefire and killing close to 30  Palestinians, Reuters reports. Nearly 900 people have been killed in the 16-day offensive. Israeli forces and tanks backed by helicopter gunships battled Hamas militants as... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • Israeli offensive • Israeli Army

(Newser) - The massive tunnels supplying food, medicine, and rockets from Egypt into Gaza are the bane of Israel's military, and a lifeline for Palestinians and the economy of Egypt’s destitute Sinai, the Los Angeles Times reports. Smuggling has been immune to military action, to the consternation of Israeli leaders.... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Egypt • smuggler • tunnels • Gaza Egypt border • rockets

(AP) - A top Hamas leader says the Gaza war has killed the last chance for settlement and negotiations with Israel, the AP reports. Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal today condemned Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip as a "holocaust" in a fiery speech on Al-Jazeera. Mashaal's comments come as Hamas... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Egypt • negotiations

OPINION

Every Civilian Death a Hamas War Crime

Group delights
in the deaths of its human shields

Jan 10, 09 1:25 PM CST
(Newser) - When Israelis kill civilians in Gaza, it’s Hamas that’s committing the war crime, says Alan M. Dershowitz of the LA Times. Hamas delights in using human shields, or duping Israel into returning fire at civilian targets, earning itself international sympathy with each casualty. Hamas has taken... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • war crimes • civilian casualties

(Newser) - Israel dropped leaflets on the Gaza strip today warning inhabitants of an escalation in the 2-week offensive against Hamas militants, the BBC reports. The leaflets assured civilians that the action was against “Hamas and the terrorists only” and urged people to stay away from military targets. The development could... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Fatah • rocket attacks • Egypt • Palestinians • tanks • ceasefire • Israeli offensive • escalation

Israel Faces
New Front in Gaza: Facebook

Social networking site becomes tool for protest, fundraising

Jan 10, 09 9:37 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel has strived mightily to win the information war around Gaza, launching its own YouTube channel and blogging program, keeping the international press off the battlefield and attacking Hamas websites. But they can’t control the wilds of Facebook, which has become a powerful way for the Arab world to... More »

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 Israeli Pummels Gaza, Pauses 

Air strikes hit 40 targets overnight

Jan 10, 09 6:52 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel continued to pound Gaza last night and this morning as air strikes hit 40 targets and killed 15 Hamas fighters, CNN reports. Attacks were halted for the 3-hour pause this afternoon to allow Gaza residents to restock supplies, the third such pause in the two-week-old conflict. Health workers say... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Arab Israeli conflict • airstrike • casualties • UN resolution

UN Calls for Gaza War Crimes Probe

Rights official accuses Israel of ignoring international law

Jan 10, 09 2:34 AM CST
(Newser) - The UN's top human rights official has called for an investigation into possible war crimes committed by the Israeli military in Gaza, the Guardian reports. She singled out an incident this week where up to 30 Palestinian civilians were killed in a home shelled by Israeli forces and the surviving... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Gaza • Hamas • war crimes • Arab Israeli conflict

OPINION

Israel's Only Option: Destroy Hamas Entirely

Krauthammer: Olmert has a second chance to defeat extremism

Jan 9, 09 9:48 AM CST
(Newser) - There are only two possible outcomes of the war in Gaza, writes Charles Krauthammer: the complete destruction of Hamas or an internationally supervised truce à la Lebanon. Under immense diplomatic pressure, Israel is hinting it will accept the French-Egyptian ceasefire plan. That would be "a terrible mistake," writes... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Lebanon War

 100 Rescued From 
 Area Blocked by Israel 

More still trapped under rubble, aid groups say

Jan 9, 09 8:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Emergency workers in Gaza have rescued 100 more people from a residential block that for days had been blocked off by Israeli forces. Dozens of corpses also were found in the neighborhood's heavily shelled buildings, the Washington Post reports. Aid groups say more people remain trapped in demolished houses in... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Gaza City • Palestinians • International Committee of the Red Cross • Israel Defense Force

 Israel Rebuffs UN, 
 May Call in Reservists 

Cabinet mulls new phase to offensive as bombs rain on Gaza

Jan 9, 09 6:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel pushed ahead with its military operation in Gaza today, despite a unanimous Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. On the 14th day of the offensive, warplanes bombed the outskirts of Gaza City and tanks shelled a house in the north of the Strip, killing six Palestinians from... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Gaza • Hamas • Tzipi Livni • Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • UN Security Council

Obama Is 'Prepared
to Talk to Hamas'

Secret contact under consideration: sources

Jan 9, 09 1:49 AM CST
(Newser) - President-elect Barack Obama is prepared to break with Bush administration policy and open lines of communication with Hamas, sources close to the transition team tell the Guardian. Advisors believe that ostracizing Hamas isn't working and support a move by Obama to quietly contact Hamas, perhaps through intelligence agencies—the same... More »

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Barack Obama • diplomacy • Gaza • Hamas • Obama administration • President Obama

(Newser) - The UN Security Council tonight passed a resolution—with the US abstaining—calling for "an immediate and durable" cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, the BBC reports. The vote was 14-0. It's unclear how much of an effect it will have on the ground, and Israel appeared to be resuming... More »

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Gaza • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • Mideast

OPINION

Gaza Blowup Could've Been Avoided: Carter

Agreement on aid crossings would've prevented recent violence

Jan 8, 09 2:24 PM CST
(Newser) - The destruction being visited upon Gaza could easily have been avoided, Jimmy Carter writes in the Washington Post. The former president, during visits last year, saw both the effects of Hamas rockets on Israeli communities, and the misery and malnutrition caused by the Gaza blockade. He details his own efforts,... More »

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Israel • Jimmy Carter • Gaza • Hamas • rocket attacks • Gaza blockade • humanitarian aid

Vatican, Israel Scrap Over
Gaza Remark

Cleric defends calling Palestinian enclave 'concentration camp'

Jan 8, 09 12:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Israel slammed a Vatican official today for calling Gaza “a big concentration camp,” Reuters reports. Israel denounced the comparison by Cardinal Renato Martino as “the vocabulary of Hamas propaganda.” “We are astounded to hear from a spiritual dignitary words that are so far removed from... More »

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Israel • Pope Benedict XVI • Gaza • Vatican • Israel and Palestinians • concentration camp • Palestinians • Cardinal Renato Martino

(AP) - The United Nations today halted all aid deliveries to the besieged Gaza Strip, citing a series of Israeli attacks on UN staff and installations. The announcement came shortly after the driver of a UN truck was killed by tank fire as he was headed to an Israeli border crossing to... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Gaza • Hamas • humanitarian aid

 60 Strikes 
 Pound Gaza 
 Overnight 

Mosque used as hideout leveled; death toll nears 700

Jan 8, 09 6:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel intensified its airstrikes in Gaza last night, reports CNN, bombing about 60 targets across the Strip on the 13th day of the operation. One of the targets was a mosque that the Israeli military claims stored weapons and sheltered Hamas fighters. The airstrikes also targeted 10 Hamas tunnels used... More »

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Red Cross Slams IDF After Grisly Gaza Find

Corpses, starving children in zone where army banned rescuers

Jan 8, 09 4:45 AM CST
(Newser) - The Red Cross has condemned the Israeli military in unusually harsh terms after finding 15 corpses in shattered houses the organization was prevented from visiting, the Washington Post reports. Officials said they received reports of casualties in the Gaza neighborhood Saturday but weren’t allowed to enter until yesterday. Four... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Gaza City • Red Cross • humanitarian crisis • IDF

 Israel Hit by Rockets 
 Fired From Lebanon 

Attack raises fear that Gaza conflict will widen to second front

Jan 8, 09 3:30 AM CST
(Newser) - At least three rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel today, raising fears that the Gaza conflict is widening, reports the International Herald Tribune. Israeli authorities say the rockets, which they presume were fired by Hezbollah in support of Hamas, landed near the town of Nahariya and injured two Israelis.... More »

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Israel • Lebanon • Gaza • Hezbollah • rocket attacks • Arab Israeli conflict • rocket fire

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