WUC NEWS: Gaza

Israel Cuts Gas Supplies To The Gaza Strip In Midst Of Winter

TheWake UpCall 0 Gaza, Israel, Palestine 9:51 PM

Israel Cuts Gas Supplies To The Gaza Strip In Midst Of Winter

Every year, the Israeli occupation cuts cooking gas supplies for Gaza residents during the most extreme cold waves, which tend to begin at t...

Israel dropped 800 tons of bombs on Gaza, the world didn’t blink an eye

TheWake UpCall 0 Gaza, Israel, Palestine 1:27 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>Every summer, I spend time in the Palestinian village of Duma, near the city of Nablus. This past summer, I saw a side of Duma that remains etched in permanent horror. On July 31st, Reham, Saad, Ahmed, and Ali Dawabsha were immolated in an Israeli settler arson attack on their home, burning 18-month-old Ali to death.<br><br>After weeks of agonizing pain, Reham and Saad succumbed to their wounds, leaving five-year-old Ahmed Dawabsha burned in over 60% of his body, fighting for his life in an Israeli hospital, and orphaned. When I visited the family home I had passed by countless times on visits to Duma, horror clotted my veins. Every step I took, everywhere I stood, the ground beneath my feet was tainted by casualty, by terrorism, by hatred, by barbarity. Blackened patches of ground were hideous hallmarks and reminders of all those who had been tortured by unspeakable pains. Nothing was left untouched by death.</span><div>
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Israel dropped 800 tons of bombs on Gaza, the world didn’t blink an eye

Every summer, I spend time in the Palestinian village of Duma, near the city of Nablus. This past summer, I saw a side of Duma that remains...

Israeli airstrike kills pregnant woman, 2-year-old girl in Gaza

TheWake UpCall 0 Gaza, Israel 3:51 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A pregnant woman and her two-year-old daughter were killed on Sunday morning when an Israeli air strike caused their home to collapse in southern Gaza City, Gaza's Ministry of Health said.<br><br>Spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra said that Nour Rasmi Hassan, five months pregnant when she died, and her daughter, Rahaf Yahya Hassan, were killed in the air strike, and three others injured.</span><br>
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Israeli airstrike kills pregnant woman, 2-year-old girl in Gaza

A pregnant woman and her two-year-old daughter were killed on Sunday morning when an Israeli air strike caused their home to collapse in ...

Israel has made 600,000 Palestinians homeless and is turning Gaza into a super-max prison

TheWake UpCall 0 Gaza, Israel 3:40 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the UN, 100,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged, leaving nearly one in three of Gaza’s population homeless or in urgent need of humanitarian help.</span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IT IS ASTONISHING that the reconstruction of Gaza, bombed into the Stone Age according to the explicit goals of an Israeli military doctrine known as “Dahiya”, has tentatively only just begun two months after the end of the fighting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the United Nations, 100,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged, leaving 600,000 Palestinians – nearly one in three of Gaza’s population – homeless or in urgent need of humanitarian help.</span></div>
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Israel has made 600,000 Palestinians homeless and is turning Gaza into a super-max prison

According to the UN, 100,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged, leaving nearly one in three of Gaza’s population homeless or in urgent ...

100 Palestinians killed since midnight in Gaza

TheWake UpCall 0 Gaza 3:26 PM

100 Palestinians killed since midnight in Gaza

At least 100 Palestinians have been killed since Monday midnight after Israel beefed up its military operation in the Gaza Strip, accordi...

Israelis Cheer as Civilians are Murdered in Gaza

TheWake UpCall 0 Gaza, Israelis 11:01 AM

Israelis Cheer as Civilians are Murdered in Gaza

You know something has gone terribly wrong in culture when you see people cheering as women and children are being blown to bits

Israel launches ground offensive into Gaza Strip

TheWake UpCall 0 Gaza, Israel 12:41 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon ordered the Israel Defense Forces to launch a ground incursion in the Gaza Strip Thursday night, in order to "damage the underground tunnel terrors constructed in Gaza leading into Israeli territory."<br><br>Earlier, Israel resumed airstrikes on the Gaza Strip at 3:00 P.M. after a six hour temporary cease-fire to allow humanitarian aid to reach Gaza residents. The cease-fire began at 9:00 A.M. on Thursday morning, though Hamas fired rockets at Israel roughly two hours later.</span><br>
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Israel launches ground offensive into Gaza Strip

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon ordered the Israel Defense Forces to launch a ground incursion in ...

Can We Stop Pretending Israel is Being Attacked?

TheWake UpCall 0 Gaza, Israel, Palestine 2:47 PM

Can We Stop Pretending Israel is Being Attacked?

Weighing in on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis is a sure fire way to alienate lots of your politically minded friends. Like abortion, it’s ...

Up to 80% of fatalities in Israel’s bombing of Gaza are civilians

TheWake UpCall 0 Gaza, Israel's, Warr 11:54 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Almost 80 percent of those killed as a result of the Israeli bombing of Gaza are civilians, the United Nations said in a report.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The death toll from the week-long Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip is climbing to 200.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More casualties are feared as the attacks <a href="http://rt.com/news/172896-israel-hamas-ceasefire-fail/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.5s, text-decoration 0.5s; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.5s, text-decoration 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">resumed</a> Tuesday, six hours after Israel unilaterally entered an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire that was rejected by Hamas’ armed wing who continued cross-border rocket fire. The Israeli military said that during the supposed truce about 50 rockets were fired by Palestinians all over Israel; no injuries were reported.</span></div>
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Up to 80% of fatalities in Israel’s bombing of Gaza are civilians

Almost 80 percent of those killed as a result of the Israeli bombing of Gaza are civilians, the United Nations said in a report. The dea...

Israel Pounds Gaza Strip as Palestinian Death Toll Increases

TheWake UpCall 0 Gaza, Isr ael, Palestine 10:15 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Israeli warplanes pounded the Hamas-controlled <a density="sparse" href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/gaza-strip/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Gaza Strip</a> for a fifth day, taking the death toll among Palestinians past 130 amid international efforts to broker a cease-fire.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a new tactic, Hamas sent an announcement in Hebrew during Israel’s 8 p.m. television news programs that it would fire long-range missiles at <a density="full" href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/tel-aviv/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Tel Aviv</a> within an hour. As Israelis went to bomb shelters buzzing about the warning, the missiles were launched and tracked live on the TV news. Three were intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system, according to an army text message.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Prime Minister <a density="full" href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/benjamin-netanyahu/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Benjamin Netanyahu</a>considers military strategies to stop the rocket fire, world leaders are seeking to steer him away from a land invasion that would send casualties higher. The <a density="full" href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/united-nations-security-council/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">United Nations Security Council</a> called for a cease-fire today in a statement approved by all members.</span></div>
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Israel Pounds Gaza Strip as Palestinian Death Toll Increases

Israeli warplanes pounded the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip for a fifth day, taking the death toll among Palestinians past 130 amid intern...

Israel hits 160 Gaza sites, 8 children reported dead, Hamas fires rockets

TheWake UpCall 0 Gaza, Hamas, Israel 11:27 AM

Israel hits 160 Gaza sites, 8 children reported dead, Hamas fires rockets

At least eight children have been killed in the last 24 hours as Operation Protective Edge launched by Israeli forces entered its second d...

Israel-Gaza Cross-Border Attacks

TheWake UpCall 0 Gaza, Israel, Palestine 8:49 AM

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>Tit-for-tat attacks between Israel and Gaza are intensifying as the militant group Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for dozens of new rockets that landed in southern Israel, a retaliation to airstrikes on targets that Israel's military deemed "terror sites"</span><br>
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<img alt="Israeli soldiers and civilians stand next to a hole caused by a rocket launched from the Gaza strip, in the Israeli city of Sderot in the southern Negev desert on March 12, 2014. The attack prompted a retaliatory airstrike. (AFP)" height="262" src="http://albawabacdn.albawabamiddleea.netdna-cdn.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_headline_node_big//sites/default/files/im/Gaza_Strip_Israel_Airstrike_Rocket_AFP.jpg" width="400"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br><br>More than 60 rockets had already been fired from Gaza on Israeli communities during an hour-long barrage that began late Wednesday afternoon, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-rockets.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0">New York Times reports</a>. The rocket fire prompted Israeli airstrikes on 29 targets the Israeli military described as “terror sites” in the Gaza strip. The only reported injury on either side of the border was a 57-year-old Israeli woman who fell while running for cover.Rockets fired by militants in the Gaza strip landed in southern Israel on Thursday, continuing a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-rockets.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0">cross-border flare</a>-up that could threaten the 16-month ceasefire between Gaza and Israel.</span><br>
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Israel-Gaza Cross-Border Attacks

Tit-for-tat attacks between Israel and Gaza are intensifying as the militant group Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for dozens of new roc...

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