#GazaUnderAttack | Israel launches attack on UN-run school in Gaza

Palestinians carry the body of a Palestinian teenager who died of his injuries, during his funeral on August 25, 2014 in the West Bank city of Nablus.   PressTV | Mon Aug 25, 2014 8:51PM GMT In another gruesome act against Palestinians, the Israeli regime has attacked a UN school sheltering displaced and defenseless people […]

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Hasbara = Israeli Zionist propaganda war: UNRWA’s @PKraehenbuehl doesn’t get it!

Aug 24, 2014 | by @occpal I wish I could see the sincerity in this call if it wasn’t so absurd and void of reality: Today Israel officially retracted its earlier claim that rocket was launched from or near @UNRWA school in #Gaza and has issued correction. — Pierre Krähenbühl (@PKraehenbuehl) August 23, 2014 We […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Pro-Israeli Security Council Gaza Resolution ~ by @StephenLendman

  by Stephen Lendman | Stephen Lendman Blog | Aug 22, 2014 On August 21, Washington joined Germany, Britain and France. They presented a largely one-sided Security Council resolution to end over six weeks of conflict. It’s pro-Israeli. It’s pro-Western. It’s anti-Palestinian. It’s more Gazan Versailles than legitimate peace plan. It demands rejection. It’s in […]

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Ya’alon Legalizes Unauthorized Israeli West Bank Outpost

Islam Times – The Zionist Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon is set to give legal status to an unauthorized Jewish settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank in return for the evacuation of another that was established in July, the Zionist daily Haaretz reported Sunday. Islam Times | Aug 19, 2014 According to the newspaper, the […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | UN official Pierre Krähenbühl calls for an investigation into strikes on UNRWA schools

MEMO | Monday, 18 August 2014 13:06 UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl stressed the necessity of conducting an investigation into the strikes on the UN schools in Gaza during Israel’s assault on the enclave.During a press conference held in Gaza yesterday, Krähenbühl said that UNRWA strongly condemns the strikes on schools where civilians had sought refuge […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | @UN Report: 218,000 Palestinians forcibly displaced by Israeli war on Gaza

[ PIC 17/08/2014 – 07:24 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Thousands of Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their own and only homes due to the ongoing Israeli military offensive that has been rocking besieged Gaza for over a month, a UN report revealed on Saturday. According to a statement released on Saturday by the UN […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | UN official calls for end to Gaza siege

A Palestinian man and children are seen near the ruins of the Al Farouk Mosque in the city of Rafah, Gaza Strip, on July 7, 2014.   PRESSTV | Sun Aug 17, 2014 6:14AM GMT A high-ranking humanitarian official has appealed for a new deal for the Gaza Strip to end the “collective punishment” of […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Gaza agriculture devastated by Israeli offensive – UN

Russia Today | August 15, 2014 07:45 AFP Photo / Said Khatib The Israeli military operation in Gaza has devastated the enclave’s food production process the UN has announced, warning that the lack of food will “severely” affect the local population and that recovery will need “significant external assistance.” “The recent fighting has resulted in […]

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PRESIDENT OF HRC APPOINTS MEMBERS OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY UNDER HRC RESOLUTION S-21/1

11 August 2014 | UNOG The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Baudelaire Ndong Ella (Gabon), announced today the appointment of Amal Alamuddin, Doudou Diène and William Schabas to serve as members of the independent, international commission of inquiry to investigate all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Hamas calls upon @UN’s head to apologise for Palestinians

MEMO | Monday, 04 August 2014 12:15 ‘ The UN has to place full responsibility on Israel for the massacre, as well as to support justice regarding the Palestinian demands.’ The Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas called on Sunday for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to apologise to the Palestinians after the appalling Israeli massacre against […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | “Boycott from Within”: Citizens of Israel Charge Israel with Genocide, Letter to @UN

By Global Research News |Global Research, July 31, 2014 Boycott from Within has sent the following letter to the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. We encourage others to do the same at http://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/adviser/contactform.asp?address=1. You may use this letter. Dear Madame/Sir, We are citizens of Israel who oppose our government’s […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Israeli shelling hits UN school, ‘kills 16 Palestinians’

Maan News Agency | Published today (updated) 30/07/2014 11:16 Displaced Palestinian children sleep on the ground on July 23, 2014 at a UN school in the northern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Jabaliya (AFP/File Mohammed Abed) GAZA CITY (AFP) — An Israeli shelling on a UN school in Gaza killed 16 people early Wednesday, medics […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | UNRWA Condemns Shelling of School, Rights Council Launches Probe

  Wednesday July 23, 2014 22:28 by Chris Carlson – 1 of International Middle East Media Center Editorial Group Nearly 700 killed so far UNRWA has strongly condemned the recent Israeli shelling of one of its schools serving as a shelter for hundreds of displaced Palestinians, in central Gaza. The UN Human Rights Council has […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | No Exit from Gaza: A New War Crime? ~ by Richard Falk

(Prefatory Note: this is a modified version of a post published online, July 15, 2014, at the recently established very informative website, Middle East Eye; as the casualty totals continue to mount while the world looks on in stupefied inaction, the attacks go on; at the very least, from a humanitarian perspective,there should be a global […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Israel, Hamas Agree to Temporary (5 hour lasting) UN Ceasfire Request

  Thursday July 17, 2014 01:04 by Chris Carlson – 1 of International Middle East Media Center Editorial Group Israel officials have agreed to temporarily halt the assault on Gaza after UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry, called for a “humanitarian ceasefire”, according to Ma’an News Agency. Palestinians inspect damages […]

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