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Live blog: Gaza under attack

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11 years ago

The Israeli army has confirmed that a rocket fired from Lebanon landed in the upper Galilee area.

11 years ago

Israel has brought in a private company to supervise its crossing with Jordan, the King Hussein Bridge.

Pan-Arab newspaper al-Rai al-Yawm cited Palestinian travellers who had recently crossed into Jordan, who said an unnamed private company had been stamping people's passports and supervising the crossing.

Soldiers are still present at the crossing, but are stationed far from the gates themselves and will not be interacting with travellers, reports the daily.

One of the travellers, Mohammed al-Kharouf, speculates that the decision may be related to the May 2014 death of Jordanian judge Raid al-Zaitar, who died after being shot by an Israeli soldier at the crossing.

Palestinian refugees at the crossing back in 1967 (Twitter / @esraa_alkar)
11 years ago

Palestine's Interior Ministry has condemned what it calls the "systematic" killing of journalists and photographers during the bombardment of Gaza. 

In a statement released on Monday evening, the ministry slammed the deaths of journalists, the latest of whom to die was Abdullah al-Murtaji, who was killed earlier today.

17 Palestinian journalists have been killed while covering strikes on the Gaza Strip.

17 Palestinian journalists killed in the bombardment so far (Facebook / وزارة الداخلية الفلسطينية)
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Rafah-born poet Khaled Juma has written a tribute to the children of the Gaza Strip, illustrated with photographs of young people from the Strip.

"Come back and scream as you want... / Come back..."

Twitter / @smpalestine
11 years ago

A poll by Israel's Channel 2 has shown that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's popularity has fallen by 17 percent in the past four days.

63 percent of those questioned said they believe the start of the new school year should be postponed amid the ongoing violence.

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A 17-year old and at least 35 people have been injured in an Israeli airstrike in eastern Gaza near the al-Maghrabi Mosque.

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A poll the results of which were published today shows that the vast majority of Palestinians would support a long-term ceasefire deal, reports Jordanian daily al-Ghad.

The poll, run between 14-19 August, asked 1,000 Palestinians their opinions on a variety of subjects.

87.6 percent said they would support a long-term ceasefire, while 93.2 percent would oppose demilitarisation of the Gaza Strip.

81.4 percent of those questioned want to open a case against Israel for possible war crimes at the International Criminal Court.

11 years ago

Palestinian journalist Abdullah Fatel Mortaja has reportedly been killed in an Israeli attack on the Zaytoun neighbourhood of Gaza.

11 years ago
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According to the Gaza health ministry at least 89 entire family have been killed since the beginning of ISrael's assault on Gaza.

So far around 2124 people are thought to have been killed in Gaza.

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The Nahal Oz kibbutz is planning to build a new residential area named after Daniel Tregerman, the 4-year old Israeli killed by rocket fire on Friday, according to the Hatzolah news feed.

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Hamas has said that 13 people have handed themselves in since 22 August, when 18 people suspected of collaborating with Israel were publicly executed.

After the execution, they published a statement saying that those who hand themselves in will be pardoned.

According to Palestinian news site al-Majd News, a woman turned her husband in to the authorities after they announced the amnesty.