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IDF: Pillar Of Defense: Sixth Day of Fighting

The Iron Dome missile defense system has successfully intercepted an overall of 347 rockets.

(TEL AVIV) - The sixth day of Operation Pillar Of Defense is drawing to an end. Since the beginning of the operation, over 600 rockets fired from Gaza hit Israeli towns.

Today, three schools in the southern city of Ashkelon were hit by rockets fired from Gaza.

Israeli Attack on Gaza

It is time for the U.S. to re-examine its lockstep support of Israel.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - 'Israelis' are all too often portrayed by news media as a single like minded group and nothing could be farther from the case.

In response to Israel-imposed apartheid, Hamas shoots rockets into Israel, causing a disproportionate response, which in turn causes worldwide condemnation, further isolating Israel from most of the world.

Qatari Emir`s visit to Gaza Aimed at Locating Hamas Leaders: Report

Qatar’s King Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has reportedly located the whereabouts of senior Hamas members during his recent visit to the Gaza Strip, and later provided Israel with the information to assassinate them.

(TEHRAN Press TV) - According to a report published by the Fars news agency, the emir of Qatar distributed a number of watches and ballpoint pens among Hamas leaders, which could transmit low-frequency signals to Israeli satellites.

The Israeli military officials would then use the received signals to spot the high-ranking Hamas fighters, and launch assassination strikes on them.

What Hell-on-Earth was like 4 years ago in Gaza

“If the world grants the Palestinian people their human rights there will surely be peace in the Middle East” – Pastor Manuel

(LONDON) - This seems a very good moment, on the sixth day of Operation Cast Lead Mk2, to remember what happened when Israel unleashed its last blitzkrieg on Gaza.

It was called Operation Cast Lead Mk 1 - over the Christmas/New Year holiday period nearly 4 years ago.

Who is Doing the Killing in Gaza? Noam Chomsky and Others Challenge World`s Media

On November 12, waking up to a new week, readers at breakfast were flooded with heart rending accounts of past and current military casualties.

(LONDON) - The degree of terror felt by ordinary Palestinian civilians in Gaza is barely noticed in the media, in stark contrast to the world's awareness of terrorised and shock-treated Israeli citizens.

WHILE COUNTRIES across Europe and North America commemorated military casualties of past and present wars on November 11, Israel was targeting civilians.

Operation Security Roof (satire)*

"‘Security Roof’ is obviously the natural way to proceed." - Government spokesman Mr Zion Zioni

(LONDON) - Following the IDF difficulties in defeating Hamas’s ballistic warfare, the Israeli Government is now searching for contractors with some advanced experience in large scale reinforced concrete constructions.

The mission ahead is the building of a solid concrete roof over the entire Jewish State.

Israel`s War on Gaza Enters Day 6

Two women and a child have already been killed in an Israeli air raid on Gaza City today.

(TEHRAN Press TV) - The besieged Gaza Strip is being hit by Israeli airstrikes for the sixth consecutive day, with rising civilian casualties among the Palestinians due to the Israeli attacks.

Almost 15 Palestinians were killed in the latest airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Monday, raising the death toll from the Israeli aggression since Wednesday to at least 94.

Israel Packs Plastic Shrapnel Into Rockets- Leaving Palestinians Painful Deaths from Undetected War Debris

The folks in Geneva with ICC need to take a serious look at this.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Another war crime flying below the radar... the use of plastic shards intentionally placed in rockets that leave behind undetectable shrapnel in humans.

That puzzled doctors because they amputate human limbs by heat, and the massive killings of Palestinian farm animals and wildlife through the use of Israeli-manufactured tablets deposited on Palestinian land.

Gaza Redux

All human rights groups and the UN describe atrocities against natives as war crimes and crimes against humanity.

(BETHLEHEM) - Israel forces have been attacking Gaza, destroying power grids, destroying infrastructure and killing civilians. They intensified the brutal attack after two home made rockets landed in Tel Aviv.

Hospitals in Gaza are at the breaking point trying to deal with casualties while under siege for years.

Israel Ranked World`s Most Militarised Nation

In contrast, both sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are relatively low on the Index.

(LONDON) - Israel tops the list of the world’s most militarised nations.

This, according to the latest Global Militarisation Index released Tuesday by the Bonn International Centre for Conversion (BICC). At number 34, Israel’s main regional rival, Iran, is far behind.