msnbc.msn.com - 1/15/2009
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Israel shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, and a separate airstrike killed a top Hamas official.
israelnationalnews.com - 1/16/2009
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israelnationalnews.com —
(IsraelNN.com) "Hamas took a gamble. We thought, at
worst Israel will come and do something from the
air - superficial." The so-called "Iranian Unit" of Hamas has been destroyed, according to Gaza sources cited Thursday by the Haaretz daily. The ...
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"Iranian Unit" Destroyed, Hamas was Suprised - ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/15/2009
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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 ...
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Israeli forces shell UN headquarters in Gaza - Yahoo! News
haaretz.com - 1/16/2009
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haaretz.com —
Hamas will not accept Israeli conditions for a
cease-fire in Gaza and would continue armed resistance until
the offensive ends, Khaled Meshal, the leader of the Palestinian Islamist group, said on Friday. Speaking at the opening of an emergency ...
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Hamas: We will not accept Israel cease-fire ...
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Operation Cast Lead: Day 20
A Blog For All —
... reports that UN officials (namely Chris Guiness) were told by unnamed Israeli officials that the attack was a mistake. MSNBC says that Ehud Barak told the UN that there had been a "grave mistake", but the ...
Outrage in Gaza?
A Blog For All —
The media and the UN are making a big deal about the building that the Israelis fired on and caused damage to in Gaza. Why would Israel have fired on that building in the first place? Well, turns out that the UNRWA was hosting Hamas thugs who were firing on Israelis with machine guns and anti-tank weapons : Israeli troops shelled the U.N. headquarters in Gaza after coming under fire from Palestinian militants, a senior Israeli military officer said on Thursday. The artillery attack set the compound on fire, destroyed tons of food and humanitarian supplies, reportedly injured ...
Thursday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... to have been any fatalities: "A US Airways plane was down in the Hudson River on Thursday after attempting to take off from LaGuardia Airport, officials said. US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320, was headed to Charlotte, North Carolina, the Federal Aviation Administration said. A passenger said he was 'pretty sure' everybody on the plane got out." * A terrible mistake : "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 ...
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