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Israel distributes new gas masks to civilians: army
Staff Writers, Jerusalem (AFP)/Spacewar
Israel on Sunday began distributing new gas masks for civilians to use in a possible chemical or biological attack, the army said.
“The civil defence has asked the Israeli postal service to begin distributing gas masks on an experimental basis to the residents of Or Yehuda,” a military spokesman told AFP, referring to [...]
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Exclusive: Israeli commander: ‘We rewrote the rules of war for Gaza’
Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem/Independent
Civilians ‘put at greater risk to save military lives’ in winter attack – revelations that will pile pressure on Netanyahu to set up full inquiry
A high-ranking officer has acknowledged for the first time that the Israeli army went beyond its previous rules of engagement on the protection of civilian lives in order [...]
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The ‘explosive admission’ in Israel’s Gaza report
Paul Wood, BBC News, Jerusalem
Buried in paragraph 108 of the Israeli foreign ministry’s report to the UN on Gaza is the key fact of the document.
Two senior officers – one the commander of the Gaza ground operation, no less – were reprimanded for failing to follow their own rules of engagement.
The document was slipped out [...]
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Members of U.S. Congress Ask President Obama to End the Blockade in Gaza
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee / Global Research
Washington, D.C. www.adc.org | Last Thursday, 54 Members of the House of Representatives led by Congressman Ellison of Minnesota and Congressman McDermott from Washington State signed a letter to President Obama asking his Administration to lift the blockade on Gaza. In the letter to President Obama, the [...]
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Canadian military personnel retrieved a group of stranded B.C. teens and their chaperones from a remote town outside Port-au-Prince on Sunday morning.A military helicopter picked up two adults who needed medical attention from the Grand Goave compound they were staying at, flying them to the Canadian Embassy in Port-au-Prince.Military personnel then went to the site [...]
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Is Israel Preparing for Another War on Gaza?
Paul Woodward/Global Research
With the approach of the first anniversary since the end of Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s war against Gaza, there is mounting speculation that the Jewish state is once again considering a military challenge against Hamas.
As Tony Karon wrote recently in The National: “There were no winners in the Gaza war that Israel launched [...]
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