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NEWS ABOUT: Gaza City

Gaza City stories: 17 news summaries

Right Groups Cite Evidence
of Israeli Phosphorus Use

UN workers say incendiary weapon used to attack Gaza compound

Jan 17, 09 9:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Witness accounts are adding weight to accusations by human rights groups that Israel is violating international law by using white phosphorus as a weapon against civilians, the Guardian reports. Palestinians say the incendiary shells were used to set their homes on fire and doctors report treating patients with injuries clearly... More »

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Israel • Gaza • chemical weapons • Gaza City • civilians • Israeli offensive

 Israel Shells UN Headquarters 

Offensive escalates even as ceasefire hopes rise

Jan 15, 09 6:51 AM CST
(Newser) - Israeli shells set fire to the UN’s relief agency headquarters and a hospital today, as Israeli tanks pushed deep into Gaza City, the BBC reports. Some 700 people were inside the compound, along with large amounts of fuel and aid supplies; at least three UN employees were injured. Secretary-General... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Gaza • Ehud Barak • Israel and Palestinians • Gaza City • hospital • Arab Israeli conflict • United Nations Relief and Works Agency • Ban Ki-Moon

 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

 Stop Gaza 
 Fighting, UN 
 Boss Pleads 

'Society being destroyed' in Gaza, says Ban Ki-Moon

Jan 13, 09 2:13 AM CST
(Newser) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, where Israeli tanks and troops were driving even deeper into Gaza City today in search of Hamas positions. Ban Ki-Moon, preparing for a trip to the region to personally push for a ceasefire, mourned the loss of... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Gaza City • Palestinians • ceasefire • UN Security Council • Ban Ki-Moon • UN Secretary General

 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

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

COMMENTARY

 Gazans Hunker Down 
 in 'Worst' Time of All 

Refugees arrive in city with horror stories

Jan 6, 09 1:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Lentils and bread nearly are all Safwat al-Kahlout can offer the 20 relatives holed up in his powerless Gaza City apartment, he writes in the Christian Science Monitor. As Israeli tanks roll through the city's outskirts, family members have fled inward to his flat. "I took my clothes and... More »

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Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Gaza City • food shortage • Arab Israeli conflict • rations

 Israeli Army Moves 
 Into Gaza City 

Soldiers exchange gunfire with Hamas fighters on capital's streets

Jan 5, 09 6:08 AM CST
(Newser) - The Israeli army moved into Gaza City for the first time this morning, fighting gun battles in the streets with Hamas militants. The Guardian reports that Israeli soldiers were making house-by-house sweeps for fighters associated with Hamas. This morning Ehud Barak, the defense minister, said that Israel would continue to... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Nicolas Sarkozy • civilian casualties • Ehud Barak • Mahmoud Zahar • Israel and Palestinians • Gaza City

 Peace Team 
 Rushes to Gaza 
 as Toll Tops 520 

Sarkozy to meet with Israeli leaders today

Jan 5, 09 4:19 AM CST
(Newser) - A European peace and humanitarian team and French President Nicolas Sarkozy headed to the region today as Israeli ground-assault tanks pushed further into Palestinian territory, and edged the death toll close to 530, Reuters reports. Hamas militants have retaliated by firing rocket-propelled grenades at tanks in eastern Gaza, and at... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • civilian casualties • Israel and Palestinians • Gaza City • warfare • tanks • Arab Israeli conflict • Gaza blockade


 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

White House Frets Over
Gaza Fighting

Administration pressuring Israel
to end attacks

Dec 31, 08 2:45 AM CST
(Newser) - A deeply worried Bush administration is privately pushing Israel to settle on a Gaza exit strategy, despite the White House's public support of the offensive, insiders tell the Los Angeles Times. Amid rising international pressure to end the fighting, administration officials fear that rather than crushing Hamas, Israel's assault could... More »

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Bush administration • Israel • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Hamas • State Department • Israel and Palestinians • Gaza City • Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • George W. Bush

 Israeli Army Puts 
 War Videos on 
 YouTube 

IDF launches web channel to steer Gaza debate

Dec 30, 08 4:29 PM CST
(Newser) - The Israeli army has launched a YouTube channel of graphic war videos in an attempt to curry public favor for its Gaza siege, the Jerusalem Post reports. The footage shows aerial strikes, aid distribution, and—in one potentially unsettling piece—an alleged airstrike on two men loading Israel-bound rockets onto... More »

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Israel • technology • Internet • YouTube • Gaza • war • bomb • Gaza City • Arab Israeli conflict • Israel Defense Force

Israel Vows to Press Offensive

Five more killed in strike on Hamas prime minister's offices

Mar 2, 08 6:00 AM CST
(Newser) - In the face of blistering UN condemnation, defiant Israeli officials vowed to continue the Gaza offensive as five more people were killed in an air strike on the offices of the Hamas prime minister today. "Israel has no intention of stopping the fight against the terrorist organizations even for... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Hamas • Gaza City • Ban Ki-Moon

Gaza City Shuts Off Power Amid Claimed Fuel Shortage

Israelis say move meant to create crisis

Jan 20, 08 3:17 PM CST
(Newser) - Gaza City’s sole power plant has shut down due to what Palestinian officials claim are insufficient fuel supplies, the BBC reports. Israel—which provides 60% of Gaza’s electricity—closed its border last week with the Gaza Strip, preventing the import of virtually all supplies. The move followed a... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Gaza • Palestine • electricity • Gaza City • power plant

In Gaza, 150,000 Cheer Hamas

PM calls for uprisings against Israeli occupation

Dec 15, 07 1:01 PM CST
(Newser) - Crowds filled Gaza City streets today, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Hamas in what BBC analysts are calling a critical test of public support. At least 150,000 rallied amid waving flags and banners as Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya preached “resistance and jihad,” blasting his moderate Fatah... More »

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Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • Ismail Haniya • Gaza City • Palestinians

Abductors Release Video
of Kidnapped BBC Reporter

Journalist in captivity since March 12

Jun 1, 07 7:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a video posted on the Internet today, a captured BBC reporter says he is in good health and has been well treated. It is unclear when the footage of a beleaguered-looking Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped in Gaza City March 12, was taken. Toward the end of the footage,... More »

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Alan Johnston • BBC • Palestine • kidnapping • Army of Islam • reporter • Gaza City • militant • al-Qaeda

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