news.bbc.co.uk - 1/6/2009
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At least 30 people were killed and 55 injured when Israeli artillery shells landed outside a United Nations-run school in Gaza, UN officials have said. A number of children were among those who died when the al-Fakhura school in the Jabaliya refugee camp was hit, doctors at nearby hospitals ...
haaretz.com - 1/6/2009
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haaretz.com —
Israel Defense Forces tank fire killed up to
40 Palestinians at a United Nations school in the...
Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical sources at two hospitals said. The attack brought the Palestinian death toll to nearly 600 in Israel's 11-day offensive on ...
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40 Palestinians killed in IDF strike on UN ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/6/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Palestinian medical officials say
the death toll from an Israeli airstrike outside a...
United Nations school in the Gaza Strip has risen to 30. The attack occurred about 10 yards (meters) outside the school in northern Gaza. It ...
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Palestinians say strike on 2nd UN school kills 30 - ...
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 1/7/2009
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Having praised the new Foreign Policy site ,
let me welcome them to the blogosphere by taking...
exception to this hypothetical from new-minted FP blogger Stephen Walt, which has been mentioned favorably by Yglesias and Klein as an example of the sort ...
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Strike on Gaza school 'kills 40'
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a United Nations-run school in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources have said. A number of children were among those who died when the al-Falluj school in the Jabaliya refugee camp took a direct hit, doctors at nearby hospitals said. People inside had been taking refuge from the Israeli ground offensive. Earlier, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned of a "full-blown humanitarian crisis" in Gaza. Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7814054.stm
Egypt Proposes Ceasefire as Israel Attacks Gaza School
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... proposal Tuesday that would buy time to negotiate a long-term agreement. Israel continued its offensive in Gaza, meanwhile, shelling a United Nations school with artillery. At least 30 people, children among them, were killed by the attack, which Israel said was aimed at militants. ...
The fog of war lifted
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The BBC at the time it happened.
Strike at Gaza school ‘kills 40′
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The UN officials said they regularly provided the Israeli military with exact co-ordinates of their facilities, and that the school was in a built-up area.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was “deeply dismayed” that despite these efforts, three UN-run schools had been hit by nearby Israeli strikes.
The Israeli military said that, according to initial checks, its soldiers had come under mortar fire from militants ...
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