Operation Cast Lead

An ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas which accelerated in the last few days of 2008 when Israel responded to an increase in rocket and mortar fire by launching a series of airstrikes, known as Operation Cast Lead (Hebrew: מבצע עופרת יצוקה‎, Mivtza Oferet Yetzukah), against targets in the Gaza Strip. Medical officials say at least 437 Palestinians have been killed, including at least 75 children, and 2,250 have been injured. Four Israelis have been killed in the same period by Palestinian rockets. International reactions on the conflict have either condemned the Israeli operation, or the Hamas rocket attacks (prior to, and after the operation), or both. Many countries and organizations have called for an immediate ceasefire and have expressed concern for the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. (Wikipedia)

Israel Shells Gaza and Drops Leaflets, Seemingly to Prepare for a ...
New York Times, United States
Eyad Baba/AP A Palestinian viewed rubble from an Israeli strike on Friday in the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza. By TAGHREED EL-KHODARY and ISABEL KERSHNER GAZA ...

Israel allows some foreigners to leave Gaza
International Herald Tribune, France
By Taghreed El-Khodary and Isabel Kershner GAZA: Israeli warplanes pounded targets in Gaza on Friday for a seventh day and Israel allowed hundreds of ...

Thousands protest Gaza offensive
Reuters
... Thousands of chanting, banner-waving demonstrators marched in cities across Europe on Saturday to demand a halt to Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip. ...

Thousands march over Gaza strikes
BBC News, UK
Thousands of people are taking part in demonstrations across the UK against the Israeli air strikes on Gaza. Up to 10000 demonstrators took to the streets ...

UN warns Gaza faces food crisis
BBC News, UK
The UN warns that Palestinians in Gaza face a serious health and food crisis as Israeli air strikes continue. Maxwell Gaylard, the UN's chief aid ...

Turkey seeks end to Gaza violence
The Associated Press
Meanwhile around 5000 Turks shouting "killer Israel" protested in downtown Ankara as anger mounted over Israeli air strikes on Gaza. ...

AL chief to lobby for UNSC resolution on Gaza ceasefire
Xinhua, China
27, 2008, Israel launched intensive assaults on Gaza, killing at least 462 Palestinians and injuring more than 2300 others, according to Palestinian sources ...

Abbas to meet Sarkozy, travel to UN on Monday
AFP
"He will then immediately go to New York, where he will make a speech before the UN Security Council to ask for a halt to the Israeli attack against Gaza," ...

Gaza militants keep up rocket fire on Israel
Africasia, UK
Militants in the Gaza Strip fired at least 15 rockets into southern Israel on Saturday, lightly wounding three people, the army and medics said. ...

EU team off to Middle East, hoping for Gaza truce
AFP
The European Union -- the biggest foreign donor to the Palestinian territories -- is concerned about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip after more ...

Blogosphere:

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (January 03, 2009) - "Liberate ...
"Liberate Gaza". A reader writes:. Don't you find it odd that the phrase "Liberate Gaza" was in ENGLISH ... using a stencil! Seems more like an advertisement to Western journalists screaming, "Photo Op, Photo Op". ...

Michelle Malkin » Another one bites the dust in Gaza
Another one bites the dust in Gaza. ... After his release from an Israeli prison and return to Gaza in October 1997, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual head of Hamas, declared that Israel must `disappear from the map. ...

My Grandpa Lives in Gaza | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet
On Sunday morning, I found out through a note my friend wrote on Facebook, that the Israeli Air Force was attacking my grandfather's neighborhood in Gaza. Safa, who lives near my grandfather in the densely-populated "Asqoola" in Gaza ...

Gateway Pundit: Israeli Airstrike Kills Another Hamas Leader in ...
Israeli warplanes and gunboats blasted more than two dozen Hamas targets Saturday, including weapons storage facilities, training centers and leaders' homes as Israel's offensive against Gaza's Islamic militant rulers entered a second ...

Global Voices Online » Australia: Following Gaza from Afar
Though Gaza is a long way from Australia, there have been many reactions to the catastrophe unfolding there. Many Australians have been using their blogs to post links that help to provide both information and analysis of what’s ...

ekathimerini.com | Gaza bombing a growing concern
Greek soldiers push humanitarian aid onto one of two C-130 military airplanes that carried the supplies from the Elefsina military airport, east of Athens, to Gaza on December 31. The planes carried 28 tons of aid, including blood and ...

Hamas Leader Warns Against Gaza Invasion
Hamas Leader Warns Against Gaza Invasion - The Huffington Post

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin: Israel May Win in Gaza, Hamas Won't Lose and ...
Israel May Win in Gaza, Hamas Won't Lose and Moderate Arab Leaders and Obama Will Worry - The Huffington Post.

Talking Points Memo | An International Force in Gaza?
Interesting article by McClatchy's Warren Strobel on the possibility of an international force in Gaza as the basis of a new ceasefire. Part of the equation might be having Fatah reassume control not over Gaza itself but over the border ...

Rallies to protest Gaza bombing - WalesOnline
Tens of thousands of protesters are due to voice their anger at the Gaza bombing blitz in a series of rallies across the UK.

Video: Gaza air strikes continue

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