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/ 20 January 2009
Voicing shock and anger at the ”heartbreaking” devastation, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to pledge aid.
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/ 20 January 2009
Tension eased in Gaza early on Tuesday as a fragile ceasefire entered its third day, with residents struggling to absorb the devastation.
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/ 19 January 2009
Palestinians took stock on Monday of the devastation from a three-week war in the Gaza Strip as a ceasefire took hold.
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/ 19 January 2009
Israeli forces were pulling out of the Gaza Strip on Monday following a tentative truce with Hamas that allowed Palestinians to take stock of the war.
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/ 18 January 2009
Palestinian militants announced a one-week ceasefire on Sunday after Israel called a unilateral halt to its massive offensive on Gaza.
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/ 18 January 2009
Palestinian militants in Gaza launched rockets into southern Israel on Sunday in defiance of a unilateral ceasefire Israel declared hours earlier.
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/ 18 January 2009
The skies over Gaza remained calm on Sunday morning for the first time in 22 days as Israel unilaterally halted its onslaught.
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/ 17 January 2009
Israel battered Gaza with new strikes on Saturday, as it was poised to unilaterally halt a 22-day-old war on Hamas.
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/ 17 January 2009
Israeli warplanes returned to the attack on the Gaza Strip on Saturday as leaders of the Jewish state weighed a unilateral ceasefire.
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/ 16 January 2009
Israeli troops again pounded Gaza on Friday, as it also sought to pile up pressure on the Islamists in truce negotiations gathering pace in Egypt.
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/ 16 January 2009
Israel worked to secure guarantees on Friday that arms smuggling to Hamas militants would end under any deal to call off its three-week-old offensive.
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/ 15 January 2009
Israel unleashed its heaviest shelling of Gaza neighbourhoods on Thursday in what might be a final push against Hamas before a ceasefire.
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/ 15 January 2009
Israel struck fresh targets on Thursday and waged street battles in Gaza as the international community stepped up efforts to broker a truce.
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/ 14 January 2009
International efforts to stop the Gaza war intensified on Wednesday as Israel pressed its demand that Hamas not be allowed to rearm under a ceasefire.
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/ 13 January 2009
Israeli forces tightened their hold on the outskirts of Gaza City on Tuesday and Israel’s top general said ”there is still work” ahead against Hamas.
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/ 13 January 2009
Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen fought fierce clashes around the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
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/ 12 January 2009
Israeli leaders trying to find a knockout blow for Hamas militants defying a 17-day-old assault on Gaza have thrown army reservists into battle.
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/ 11 January 2009
Israel and Hamas vowed to keep fighting on Sunday, ignoring international calls to stop the Gaza conflict which entered a 16th day.
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/ 10 January 2009
In the houses at the edge of Zeitoun, dozens of Palestinian families woke to discover that Israel’s invasion had brought troops and tanks.
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/ 10 January 2009
The United Nations’ most senior human rights official said on Friday night that the Israeli military may have committed war crimes in Gaza.
The scenes of calamity just get worse. This week readers awoke to an image that will haunt many for years to come.
Israel pounded Gaza with bombs and shells on Friday, vowing to pursue its war on Hamas despite a truce order from the UN Security Council.
Israel on Friday rejected a United Nations resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Worries about global economic growth and expectations of a weak US jobs report pushed oil prices lower on Friday.
Kgalema Motlanthe this week slammed the attacks in Gaza, dubbing the offensive ”sheer savagery and brutality” that caused a ”deep sense of revulsion”.
Incoming administration will abandon Bush’s isolation of Islamist group to initiate low-level diplomacy, say transition sources.
At least three rockets fired from Lebanon exploded in northern Israel on Thursday, wounding two people, police and medics said.
Hundreds of embattled Palestinians ventured outside to shop for food on Wednesday during a three-hour Gaza truce.
Israel, facing condemnation over the mounting death toll in its war on Hamas, ordered a temporary halt to bombing in part of Gaza on Wednesday.
Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state’s legitimacy.
Israel and Hamas studied an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the US and Europe.
A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire with Israel.