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Missile From Gaza Hits School Bus, Israel Retaliates

AP | By ARON HELLER | Posted 06.07.2011

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JERUSALEM -- An anti-tank missile fired from the Gaza Strip struck a school bus in southern Israel Thursday, wounding two people, one of them critical...

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Hamas Compound Blast In Gaza Wounds Women And Children

AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 05.25.2011

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A huge blast Wednesday at a Hamas military base in southern Gaza lightly injured more than a dozen people, including chi...

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Israeli Rockets Injure 12 At Gaza Airport, Hamas Says

AP | RIZEK ABDEL JAWAD | Posted 05.25.2011

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Hamas officials say Israeli aircraft have fired five missiles at Gaza's defunct airport and nearby border tunnels, wounding ...

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Israel's Gaza Blockade Criticized By UN Humanitarian Chief

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. humanitarian chief says Israel's blockade of Gaza is not helping its security or weakening Hamas' hold on the territor...

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Gaza Freedom March Members Gain a Small Taste of the Palestinian Experience

Kathy Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gaza Freedom March participants are calling their supporters around the world to contact Egyptian embassies and urge them to free the marchers and allow them to proceed to Gaza.

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Israel Gaza War Defended In Government Report

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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JERUSALEM — An Israeli government report released Thursday insisted that "incessant" Hamas rocket attacks forced Israel to hit Gaza hard earlier...

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Breaking The Silence Claims Over Gaza Rebuffed By IDF Reservists

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

In part of an ongoing schism within the ranks of the Israeli Defense Forces over alleged abuses against Palestinian civilians during Operation Cast Le...

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Gaza Operation: Israeli Soldiers Tell A Different Story Than Official Military Line

Mikhael Manekin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Twenty-six soldiers have now come forward to talk about their combat experiences in the Gaza War, and their testimonies are radically different from the official version given by Israel Defense Force spokesmen.

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Gaza Breakdancing On The Rise

Electronic Intifada | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was a summer Wednesday evening and Muhammad al-Ghreiz, 22, was getting his eight-member team ready for a breakdance show at the al-Baydar restauran...

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The Blockade of Gaza, Two Years On

Bill Van Esveld | Posted 05.25.2011

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Under Israel's blockade, only 18 food items are approved for import into Gaza, where 65 percent of people live below the poverty line. Other prohibited goods include soccer balls, ink, and paper.

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Gaza War Crimes Hearing To Be Held: UN

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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A UN team investigating possible war crimes by Israel and Hamas during the Gaza war has announced it will hold two days of public hearings in Gaza lat...

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During His Trip to Egypt, Obama Should Visit Gaza

Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

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The issue that is really at the crux of the tensions with the United States is the intractable conflict between Israel and Palestine, and what many perceive as a one-sided U.S. policy in support of Israel.

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Gaza civilians experience difficulty in receiving aid

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.25.2011

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A van carrying aid in Gaza City. More than 1,300 Palestinians were killed in Israel’s 22-day Gaza offensive, and around 80 percent of P...

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Israel Fought Fair In Gaza: IDF Ethics Chief

AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 05.25.2011

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NETANYA, Israel — In some ways, Brig. Gen. Eli Shermeister's job is one of the toughest in the Israeli army. Shermeister serves as the Israeli ...

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Mideast Peace Process: Time for a New Approach

Amal Malouf Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

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We need to create an environment of trust and amplify the voices of the less extreme segments of the population if we are going to give leaders a chance to have any type of successful negotiation.

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Gaza War Damaged Hundreds Of Historic World War I Gravestones

GlobalPost | Matt Beynon Rees | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Gaza, violence is so prevalent, even death doesn't put you beyond its reach. Nor does a grave protect you from further insult to your dignity. T...

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UN Halts Aid To Gaza Due To Repeated Hamas Theft

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.25.2011

The UN Relief and and Works agency announced today that is is suspending shipments of aid to Gaza. Citing interference from the militant Hamas organi...

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Waltz with Bashir, Gaza, and the Post-Moral World

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011

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Perhaps its time we surrendered to what we know to be true, Arab and Jew both: The leaders on both sides lie. That is their job. They resort to war to protect the lies.

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UN Says Hamas Seized Aid Meant For Gaza Needy

AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 05.25.2011

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JERUSALEM — Armed Hamas police broke into a Gaza warehouse packed with U.N. humanitarian supplies and seized thousands of blankets and food pack...

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Healing Gaza's Wounds

James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the war's aftermath it is important that attention be paid not only to Gaza's physical wounds and its immediate humanitarian needs, but to the psychic wounds of the survivors.

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Mitchell's Challenge: After Gaza, Five Questions About Palestinian and Israeli Realities

Sandy Tolan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Given the overwhelming odds facing a two-state solution, a strong American negotiating presence will be necessary, of a sort not seen since... well, ever.

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Gaza: Worse Than an Earthquake

Kathy Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Patients died on the floor of the operating room because we had only six operating rooms," said Dr. Saeed Abuhassan. "And really we don't know enough about the kinds of weapons that have been used against Gaza."

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Obama Phone Trail Highlights New Mideast Road Map

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

Here is the obvious strategy to Gaza crisis that is being whispered about and probably has the best chance of succeeding and stopping the craziness and bloodshed.

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Change Gaza Can Believe In

Tony Karon | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Gaza in the last few weeks, however, the Bush approach imploded, leaving Obama no choice but to initiate a new policy of his own. Hopefully, it will be one rooted in Obama's renowned pragmatism.

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International Tribunal to Save Israel and Palestinians

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

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As we peer into the abyss, we believe that the establishment of a War Crime Tribunal needs to be supported both by Israel's friends as well as by supporters of Palestine.

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