Conflict along the Gaza Strip
Rolling coverage of events along the Gaza Strip
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A quarter of the adult fatalities in #Gaza so far have been women, the Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counseling says #Israelby Solarah via twitter 11/21/2012 12:21:28 PM -
Must listen...BBC's Jon Donnison reporting live from Gaza as rockets hit the city. -
Hillary Clinton has arrived in Egypt for Gaza talks -


Onlookers stand near the scene of an explosion in Tel Aviv November 21, 2012. REUTERS/Nir Elias
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A bomb is seen landing during what witnesses said an Israeli air strike in Gaza City November 21, 2012. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
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Look carefully and you can see the bomb falling in the pic below... -
As far as I know no acceptance of responsibility for Tel Aviv attack on Hamas official media since mosque speakers claimed it for therm.by pdanahar via twitter 11/21/2012 12:30:17 PM -
Dir of Ambo services at Pal Red Crescent Society: 32 killed last night, 304 injured. Total since start: 146 killed, 1178 injured. #Gazaby erinmcunningham via twitter 11/21/2012 12:30:51 PM -
Truce seems further away today than yesterday. #Gazaby erinmcunningham via twitter 11/21/2012 12:41:24 PM -


Families gathering at UN school in Gaza - it's place they feel safest, but when we were there 3 rockets landed nearby pbs.twimg.com/media/A8Obw2OCcAAAkjU.jpg
by Tom Rayner via twitter 11/21/2012 12:43:02 PM -
Hamas leader decries killing of alleged spies
GAZA - Hamas's deputy leader has condemned the "unlawful" killing of six Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who were suspected of giving information to Israel.
Moussa Abu Marzouk, in comments posted on his Facebook page on Wednesday, urged the Islamist Hamas administration ruling Gaza to ensure that no one takes the law into their own hands.
"Punishing collaborators and especially those involved in the killing of our leaders must only be carried out in accordance with the law and through the legal procedures," Abu Marzouk said.
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Israeli police officers stand next to a damaged bus at the scene of an explosion in Tel Aviv November 21, 2012. REUTERS/Nir Elias
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Health ministry in #Gaza says 11 people killed today.by JonDonnison via twitter 11/21/2012 12:47:32 PM -


Pic of destroyed Gaza admin building. Hit by multiple rockets. Still smouldering. Records scattered among debris pbs.twimg.com/media/A8OcZQ8CMAA2icG.jpg
by chrismcgreal via twitter 11/21/2012 12:51:10 PM -


Families gathering at UN school in Gaza - it's place they feel safest, but when we were there 3 rockets landed nearby pbs.twimg.com/media/A8Obw2OCcAAAkjU.jpg
by Tom Rayner via twitter 11/21/2012 12:54:41 PM -


Israeli police explosives experts stand next to a damaged bus at the scene of an explosion in Tel Aviv November 21, 2012. REUTERS/ Nir Elias
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#Palestinian sources in #Cairo: No truce Wednesday due to disagreement over #Gaza blockade http://htz.li/RS5oknby haaretzonline via twitter 11/21/2012 12:57:11 PM -
Here's our latest video wrapup of the events in Israel and Gaza over the past day: -
Hamas has praised the Tel Aviv bus bombing but,contrary to reports elsewhere, has NOT claimed responsibility.by Tim Marshall via twitter 11/21/2012 1:09:59 PM -
another huge air strike near us in #gaza this one hitting another football stadiumby pdanahar via twitter 11/21/2012 1:10:01 PM -
Five people reportedly killed in #Gaza following a series of Israeli air strikes, according to AFP.by ajelive via twitter 11/21/2012 1:10:30 PM -
Israelis target house of Hamas senior adviser http://reut.rs/QudrXG via @reutersby Nidal al-Mughrabi via twitter 11/21/2012 1:12:21 PM -
Gaza shakes, bus explodes in Tel Aviv as Clinton seeks truce http://reut.rs/WiO8EI via @reutersby Nidal al-Mughrabi via twitter 11/21/2012 1:13:12 PM -
A studio used by the Al Jazeera TV network in Cairo was set on fire in an attack that an employee said was carried out by a mob that had been chanting slogans against the Qatari-owned station. -
Latest strike in #Gaza city hit building with Islamic Jihad office. Doctors at Shifa hospital say 6 year old boy killed and 2 injured.by JonDonnison via twitter 11/21/2012 1:19:39 PM -
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri hailed the explosion on a bus in central Tel Aviv.
"Hamas blesses the attack in Tel Aviv and sees it as a natural response to the Israeli massacres...in Gaza," he told Reuters. "Palestinian factions will resort to all means in order to protect our Palestinian civilians in the absence of a world effort to stop the Israeli aggression." -
Another of #Gaza's ubiquitous war-time anthems, loosely translated "Rock Israel like an earthquake" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0soqJ2nAAgby Noah Browning via twitter 11/21/2012 1:24:58 PM -

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An Israeli police explosives expert surveys the scene where a rocket landed in Timorim, east of Ashdod, November 21, 2012. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
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According to the UN there are now 10,000 newly internally-displaced people in #Gaza after #Israeli bombing & warning to leave their homes.by WyreDavies via twitter 11/21/2012 1:37:28 PM -
Al Aqsa TV being hacked again now - this time it's shots of the iron dome missiles destroying rockets...by Tom Rayner via twitter 11/21/2012 1:42:10 PM -
Tel Aviv blasts caused by bombs rather than suicide bombers.Not typical #Hamas or Islamic Jihad methods.Possibly leftists, #Fatah or othersby gnuseibeh via twitter 11/21/2012 1:48:30 PM -
Will the Tel Aviv bus bombing trigger a ground invasion? http://t.co/NSGMF7Rbby blakehounshell via twitter edited by anthony.derosa 11/21/2012 2:00:30 PM -


Displaced Palestinians, who fled from their houses, carry mattresses distributed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at a school in Gaza City November 21, 2012. REUTERS/Ahmed Zakot
by Eric Martyn via Pictures.reuters 11/21/2012 2:05:35 PM -
Israel had no forewarning of Wednesday's bus bomb, police minister tells @Galey_Zahal; hunt on for man who disembarked one station earlier.by Dan Williams via twitter 11/21/2012 2:09:18 PM -
Check out #WeAreHereIsrael, an incredible initiative by a group of @MasaIsrael participants currently in #Israel: http://wearehereisrael.tumblr.comby avimayer via twitter 11/21/2012 2:12:22 PM -
Netanyahu convenes nine-member inner council to discuss Gaza truce offer; ministers "optimistic" it could begin tonight - @Galey_Zahalby Dan Williams via twitter 11/21/2012 2:14:09 PM -
Hamas leader decries killing of alleged spies http://reut.rs/Y2ty0s via @reutersby Nidal al-Mughrabi via twitter 11/21/2012 2:18:52 PM -
“Turkey’s new foreign policy has but one premise, to become a regional actor,” said Soner Cagaptay, a Turkey expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “To this end, Ankara needs to have persuasive power on all countries of the region. In the past decade, Ankara has won that power with the Arabs but lost it with the Israelis.” - NYT www.nytimes.com -


Photo: Gaza valley bridge after Israeli airstrike yesterday. via @TeamPalestina pbs.twimg.com/media/A8OystMCMAEIDG9.jpg
by WillOuda via twitter 11/21/2012 2:22:12 PM -


Israeli police officers stand around a damaged bus at the scene of an explosion in Tel Aviv November 21, 2012. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
by Eric Martyn via Pictures.reuters 11/21/2012 2:23:00 PM -
Egypt confiscates rockets, mortar rounds smuggled across Libyan border (and intended for Gaza?) http://t.co/TrMTo9Uwby Dan Williams via twitter edited by anthony.derosa 11/21/2012 2:27:39 PM -

Obama's options on Gaza complicated by Arab Spring - Decoder
Despite stepped up diplomatic efforts by the United States, Reuters U.S. Foreign Affairs Editor Warren Strobel says the rapid change in the Mideast since 2011, especially in Egypt, limits the policy options President Obama has to stop the conflict between Israel and Hamas or to pursue a broader peace. -

Explosions rock Gaza City shortly after a bomb blast strikes a bus in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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Shelling from israeli navy war ships just started in #Gazaby JonDonnison via twitter 11/21/2012 2:58:51 PM
London attacker British, of Nigerian origin: source
LONDON - British authorities have established that one and possibly both of the men who hacked a soldier to death on a London street was born in Britain of Nigerian descent, a source with knowledge of the investigation said on Thursday. | Video
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