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airstrike stories: 71 news summaries

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 Israel Bombs Gaza Tunnels 

Escalating violence threatens ceasefire as US envoy heads to region

Jan 28, 09 3:49 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel bombed smuggling tunnels under the Egypt-Gaza border today in response to yesterday's killing of an Israeli soldier, CNN reports. The escalating violence is threatening the fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians. The strikes occurred just as George Mitchell, President Obama's envoy to the Middle East, was scheduled to... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • IDF • tunnel • airstrike • Gaza Egypt border • Israeli offensive

 Israel Renews Attacks on Gaza 

Air strikes, border closing follow Israeli soldier's border death

Jan 27, 09 1:02 PM CST
(Newser) - In the worst violence since both sides declared ceasefires, Israel today launched new air attacks and sent tanks and bulldozers into Gaza following a border explosion that killed an Israeli soldier, the BBC reports. There has been intense fighting in the south and a Palestinian farmer was killed. Israel closed... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Israel • Gaza • Hamas • tanks • Arab Israeli conflict • airstrike • borders • bulldozer

(Newser) - US airstrikes on suspected terrorist camps in Pakistan yesterday signal that the Obama administration will continue the aggressive US strategy against extremists in the region, the Washington Post reports. In fact, early signs suggest a tougher approach—and less patience—with the Pakistani government. The attacks, carried out by Predator... More »

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Afghanistan • CIA • Pakistan • US military • Predator • airstrike • tribal areas • President Obama • terrorist camp


 Gaza Skirmishes 
 Defy Ceasefire 

Militants fire rockets; Israel responds with air strike

Jan 18, 09 7:08 AM CST
(Newser) - Skirmishes have continued in Israel and Gaza after Israel declared a unilateral ceasefire yesterday, the New York Times reports. Militants fired rockets at an Israeli border town, and Israel responded with an air strike. In Gaza, a lone gunman faced off against Israeli troops. Hamas has said it will fight... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • rocket attacks • Arab Israeli conflict • airstrike

 Gaza Neighborhoods Fall to 
 Machine Gun Battles 


Israeli troops shoot it out with militants in suburbs as Egypt tries to broker ceasefire

Jan 14, 09 2:12 AM CST
(Newser) - Israeli troops are battling Hamas militants in the suburbs of Gaza City, filling residential streets with the chilling rat-a-tat-tat of machine gun fire, reports the BBC. Israeli forces have advanced deep into several neighborhoods, and air strikes hit 60 targets in Gaza overnight, including tunnels under the Egyptian border and... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Egypt • Israel and Palestinians • Gaza City • IDF • offensive • airstrike

 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

(Newser) - You wouldn't know it to hear our political leaders talk, but the country is deeply divided over Israel’s attacks on Gaza, writes Glenn Greenwald on Salon. Most Republican voters support the action, while most Democratic ones do not. Yet Democratic bigwigs such as Pelosi and Reid offer "blind,... More »

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Israel • Republican • Gaza • Palestine • Democrat • airstrike • Glenn Greenwald • opinion polls • Rasmussen Reports • US interests

Bush Slams Hamas for Gaza Assault

President says Hamas is responsible for civilian casualties from Israeli offensive

Jan 3, 09 5:25 AM CST
(Newser) - George W. Bush has placed the blame for the recent violence in Gaza firmly on Hamas in his first public statement on the crisis, CNN reports. Bush said the Israeli offensive has been provoked by terrorist rocket strikes, and blamed the hundreds of civilian Palestinian deaths from the offensive on... More »

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Bush administration • Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinians • airstrike • George W. Bush

 Israel Lets Foreigners Flee Gaza 

Evacuation of spouses raises fears of imminent ground assault 

Jan 2, 09 7:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel has reopened a border crossing to let foreign passport holders flee Gaza, the New York Times reports. Hundreds of men holding only Palestinian travel documents have been forced to remain behind as their wives and children are evacuated. The move raises fears that a wider Israeli assault on the... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinians • airstrike • Gaza Strip border


 Israeli Strike Kills 
 Hamas Leader 

10 killed in strike on refugee camp

Jan 1, 09 10:08 AM CST
(Newser) - An overnight Israeli air strike killed a top Hamas commander and nine others, including family members, in a refugee camp north of Gaza City, CNN reports. Nizar Rayan—described by Haaretz as an "outspoken advocate of renewing suicide bombings against Israel"—is the most senior Hamas leader killed... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • Gaza City • militant • Arab Israeli conflict • airstrike • Israel Defense Force

 Gaza Death Toll Hits 400 

Palestinian parliament building gutted as UN warns of humanitarian crisis

Jan 1, 09 6:50 AM CST
(Newser) - The Gaza death toll passed 400 as Israeli airstrikes continued for a sixth day on the start of the New Year and gutted the Palestinian parliament building, CNN reports. The dead include 42 children, 13 women and two medical workers. Some 2,000 others are injured, hundeds of them critically.... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Gaza City • Palestinians • airstrike

 Israel Pounds Gaza for 4th Day 

Fear and chaos spreads in Gaza as death toll from Israeli strikes edges toward 400

Dec 30, 08 3:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Israeli warplanes continued bombarding  the Gaza Strip for a fourth day today, pushing the death toll close to 400, reports the New York Times. Israel vowed to continue the operation until all rocket fire from Gaza has ceased and Hamas' will is broken. "There is no room for a... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinians • airstrike

(Newser) - Anti-Israel protesters gathered in the Arab world and beyond today to protest Israel’s bombing campaign against Gaza, the AP reports. At the largest protest, in Lebanon, tens of thousands of Hezbollah supporters listened as the group’s leader warned Israel of the futility of a ground invasion. "Israel's... More »

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Iran • Israel • Lebanon • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Hezbollah • Egypt • protests • airstrike • Muslim Brotherhood

 Israelis Mass 
 at Gaza Border 
 After Fresh Strikes 

Gaza death toll hits 300

Dec 29, 08 3:37 AM CST
(Newser) - Israeli troops massed at the border today as Gaza's death toll hit at least 300 following fresh Israeli air strikes overnight. Bombs decimated a mosque and family home—reportedly killing 5 children—as well as a university Israeli officials said contained explosives labs that aid Hamas' insurgency, CNN reports. Israeli... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Palestine • Hamas • death toll • soldier • airstrike • UN Security Council

OPINION

 Gazans Choked in Israeli Noose

Despite promises, Israeli occupation still hasn't ended

Dec 28, 08 1:17 PM CST
(Newser) - If the latest Israeli attacks against Gaza prove anything, it’s that the Israeli occupation isn’t over, Peter Beaumont writes in the Guardian. “To be in Gaza is to be trapped. Without future or hope, limited to a few square miles,” the columnist says. “Its borders,... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinians • attack • airstrike

(Newser) - Egypt called Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip "murder" today as world leaders appealed for peace in the region, the AFP and Jerusalem Post report. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said he was "deeply alarmed" by the violence, and, like Russia and the European Union, called for a... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Hamas • Gordon Brown • Hosni Mubarak • civilian casualties • Egypt • Israel and Palestinians • airstrike • Gaza Egypt border

UPDATED

 Israeli Strikes Kill 
 205 in Gaza Strip 

100 more wounded in assault on Hamas targets

Dec 27, 08 11:32 AM CST
(Newser) - A huge Israeli air assault on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip has killed more than 200 Palestinians and wounded at least 400, the AP reports. Those killed had mostly been inside police headquarters, Hamas said. Israel said the attacks were meant to end rocket and mortar attacks on Israel... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Hamas • Arab Israeli conflict • airstrike • Israeli offensive • retaliation

Secret Directive Lets US Attack Up to 20 Nations

Rumsfeld order in '04 allowed peacetime strikes on al-Qaeda

Nov 10, 08 6:26 AM CST
(Newser) - The American military has conducted almost a dozen secret attacks against al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Syria, Pakistan, and other nations since 2004, the New York Times reveals. The strikes were carried out under a classified order signed by Donald Rumsfeld that gave sweeping powers to let the military... More »

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Pentagon • Donald Rumsfeld • US military • counterterrorism • defense secretary • airstrike • al-Qaeda

 US Strike Kills 40 
 at Wedding: Afghans 

President Karzai angry; military investigating incident

Nov 5, 08 3:10 PM CST
(Newser) - A US air strike killed 40 civilians at a wedding party Monday, the Afghan government said today. The US said it was investigating the incident, but would not verify any attack or death toll, the New York Times reports. A Kandahar province official said US forces were fighting with the... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • Taliban • Hamid Karzai • civilian casualties • US military • wedding • Kandahar • airstrike

US Says Raid
in Syria Killed
Iraqi Militant

Administration defends cross-border operation as self-defense

Oct 28, 08 7:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Special forces carried out a secret raid in Syrian territory Sunday to kill an Iraqi militant, the US acknowledged yesterday. About two dozen American commandos swooped into a village on the Iraq-Syria border and fought a brief gun battle. While Syria condemned the raid as "terrorist aggression," top... More »

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Iraq • Syria • airstrike • border crossing • Iraq war • al-Qaeda in Iraq

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