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Egypt Cites Progress Toward Truce as Gaza Toll Exceeds 1,000
nytimes.com - 1/14/2009
Egypt Cites Progress Toward Truce as Gaza Toll Exceeds 1,000
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Egypt Cites Progress Toward Truce as Gaza Toll Exceeds 1,000
haaretz.com - 1/17/2009
Israel's Cabinet to vote Saturday on unilateral Gaza truce - Haaretz - Israel News ...
— haaretz.com — Israel is very close to securing the objectives of its 22-day-old offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip,... Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Saturday, according to French News Agency AFP. "After three weeks of Operation Cast Lead, we are very close ... (more) Israel's Cabinet to vote Saturday on ...

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Gaza Skirmishes Continue Despite Cease-Fire
nytimes.com - 1/18/2009
Gaza Skirmishes Continue Despite Cease-Fire
— nytimes.com — JERUSALEM — Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups in Gaza announced an immediate, week-long cease-fire in the... conflict with Israel on Sunday, about 12 hours after an Israeli unilateral cease-fire went into effect. The Palestinian groups said in ... (more) Gaza Skirmishes Continue Despite Cease-Fire

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Israeli forces shell UN headquarters in Gaza - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com - 1/15/2009
Israeli forces shell UN headquarters in Gaza - Yahoo! News
— news.yahoo.com — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israeli forces shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday,... setting fire to the compound filled with hundreds of refugees as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was in the region on a mission to end Israel 's ... (more) Israeli forces shell UN headquarters in Gaza - Yahoo! News

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A Blog For All:  Operation Cast Lead: Day 19

The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely:  Palestine and Israel Update V (day 20)

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Operation Cast Lead: Day 19
A Blog For All — ... . Watch for Hizbullah to issue denials, but they're just biding their time. Hizbullah is watching to see what kind of Israeli response is mounted to those rocket attacks. Israel responded to the rocket fire with an artillery barrage of its own . However, it also shows the futility of Israel relying upon UNIFIL to disarm Southern Lebanon and all the militias operating there - particularly Hizbullah, which is the de facto controlling authority in Southern Lebanon. As for the situation in Gaza, Hamas has been hurt, but not destroyed. Hamas thugs running the show from Gaza are ...

Palestine and Israel Update V (day 20)
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — January 15 NYT - A Palestinian woman standing on the rubble of a building destroyed by an IAF airstrike in Gaza City on January 14. (AP) ...

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