Israel bombs Islamic University in Gaza: witnesses - Yahoo! News
Israel bombs Islamic University in Gaza: witnesses - Yahoo! News: "Wed Jun 28, 7:37 PM ET

GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli warplane fired a missile on Thursday at the pro-Hamas Islamic University in Gaza City, setting off a huge explosion, witnesses said. ...

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deaths in three separate missile attacks ... pregnant mother, small children
Independent Online Edition > Middle East: "23 June 2006 19:29 | Olmert: Israeli lives worth more than Palestinian ones | By Donald Macintyre in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip | Published: 23 June 2006"

Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, expressed "deep regret" for army operations that have killed 14 Palestinian civilians in Gaza in just nine days but said the lives of Israeli citizens threatened by Qassam attacks were "even more important".

The deaths in three separate missile attacks overshadowed Mr Olmert's first meeting with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, since taking office, as grieving relatives gathered here to mourn the two latest civilian victims, Fatima Ahmed, a 37-year-old pregnant mother of two small children, and her brother Zakaria, 45.

The siblings were killed by an Israeli missile which had been launched in the second bungled attempt to assassinate militants in less than 24 hours. The attack wounded 13 other members of the family, including six children, and partly wrecked the house in which they had all been concluding a celebratory meal in honour of Mr Ahmed, who had been on a week-long visit from Saudi Arabia to see his 83-year-old mother. ...
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Three children were killed in an assassination attempt designed to curb Qassam rocket attacks from Gaza on Israel on Tuesday.

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Israel admits shell report flaws - World - Times Online
Israel admits shell report flaws - World - Times Online: "June 17, 2006 | From Stephen Farrell in Sudaliya

Radio and hospital reports contradict the Israeli account of fatal beach explosion

THE Israeli Army has admitted to The Times that its official account of the explosion that killed eight Palestinians picnicking on a Gaza beach last week was flawed. The account is also contradicted by a UN radio transmission.

The army has told The Times that its report was flawed because it failed to mention two gunboat shells fired at about the time of the deaths. It insists, however, that they landed too far away to have been responsible.

Video footage of the anguished 11-year-old Huda Ghalia running between the corpses of her family on the beach at Sudaliya caused fury across the Arab world. Immediately the explosion Israel expressed regret and suspended all artillery fire — but never admitted responsibility.

On Tuesday the Israeli military issued the results of an investigation that exonerated itself. "...
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PM's daughter protests Gaza killings
PM's daughter protests Gaza killings - News from Israel, Ynetnews: "Prime Minister's daughter protests Gaza killings

Dana Olmert takes part in left-wing demonstration outside army chief's house; protesters call Halutz 'murderer,' declare 'intifada shall prevail.' Meanwhile, human rights groups send letter to PM, defense minister, calling on them to stop war crimes in territories
Avi Cohen

Some 200 left-wing activists marched outside the house of IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz at the Tzahala neighborhood in Tel Aviv Saturday evening, to protest the killing of civilians in Gaza on Friday.

The demonstrators chanted slogans such as "Tzahala residents, there's a murderer in your neighborhood," and raised signs calling on the government to "put a stop to the murder of civilians" and stating, "Halutz is a killer, the intifada shall prevail." Activists also shouted, "neighbors, ask Halutz why he's killing children and how many."

Dana Olmert, the daughter of Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, also took part in the demonstration.

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Israeli killed at least 7 Friday, three more in a car, four more last night
Palestine News Agency-Wafa: "DATE: 09/06/2006 TIME :19:40 | President Abbas Describes Israel's Massacres in Gaza 'Annihilation War'

Ramallah, June 9, 2006 (WAFA) - President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the Israeli killing operations in Gaza Strip, describing them as 'annihilation war' against the Palestinian people.

'Undoubtedly what happened in Gaza today are bloody pogroms against safe civilians,' said President Abbas in a statement to WAFA 'Israeli is committing the biggest crimes of termination against the Palestinian people.'

Israel killed on Friday at least seeven citizens, including children and women, as they were by the shore of al-Sudaniyeh, north of Gaza Strip, and other three citizens in a car . Last night, Israel also killed four citizens in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah.

President Abbas called on the international community, the UN Security Council and the Quartet to put an end to Israel's haughtiness and crimes against the Palestinian people. "
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Collateral damage: Entire Gaza family - Haaretz - Israel News
Collateral damage: Entire Gaza family - Haaretz - Israel News: "Collateral damage: Entire Gaza family
By Gideon Levy

The entire family of Hamdi Aman, a 28-year-old Palestinian from Gaza who spent his youth in Tel Aviv's Carmel market, was hit in the assassination of Islamic Jihad operative Mohammed Dahdouh in Gaza a week and a half ago.

Aman's 7-year-old son Muhand was killed; Naima, his wife, 27, was killed; his mother Hanan, 46, was killed. His three and a half year old daughter Mariya is lying in the pediatric intensive care unit at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, permanently paralyzed and on a respirator. Aman is not allowed to be with her.

His youngest son, Muaman, 2, was lightly wounded by shrapnel in his back, and Aman himself was hit by shrapnel throughout his body. His uncle Nahed, 33, a father to two toddlers, is fully paralyzed and in critical condition at Tel Aviv's Sourasky Medical Center. "
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