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    Military Official Says Israel Invasion of Gaza Is Likely - NYTimes.com

    ▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-strip.html?emc=edit_th_20140717&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=6761714

    TEL AVIV — Even as Israel and Hamas agreed to suspend hostilities briefly on Thursday at the request of the United Nations, a senior Israeli military official said that his government was increasingly likely to order a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip that it had hoped to avoid.

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    Though Israel initially set limited goals of halting the rocket assaults against it and degrading Hamas, the Islamist movement that dominates Gaza, the group’s tenacity and surprisingly deep arsenal have led to widespread calls to expand the mission. The military official said only “boots on the ground” could eradicate terrorism from Gaza and indicated that Israel was even considering a long-term reoccupation of the coastal territory.

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    Four Young Boys Killed Playing on Gaza Beach
    By ANNE BARNARD and TYLER HICKSJULY 16, 2014
    ▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/world/middleeast/gaza-strip-beach-explosion-kills-children.html

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    The first explosion left a small shack burning on the jetty. Several boys could be seen fleeing along the beach. About 30 seconds later came the second blast, and when the dust cleared, three figures lay motionless on the sand. One had most of a leg blown off, his body charred; a few yards away lay a smaller one with curly hair.

    (...)

    Alon Ben-David, a senior military affairs journalist with extensive Israeli military sources, said information he had seen indicated that the military had identified the beach shack as belonging to Hamas and fired at it.

    Mr. Ben-David speculated that the second blast had been aimed at the children running away, who might have been mistaken for militants. But he added that given the military’s technologically advanced surveillance equipment, “it is a little hard for me to understand this, because the images show that the figures are children .”

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      Witness to a shelling : first-hand account of deadly strike on Gaza port
      There is a deafening explosion, then a second. Four children are dead. Four survivors reach the safety of our hotel

      Peter Beaumont in Gaza
      The Guardian, Wednesday 16 July 2014
      ►http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/16/witness-gaza-shelling-first-hand-account

      (...) It was there that the second shell hit the beach, those firing apparently adjusting their fire to target the fleeing survivors. As it exploded, journalists standing by the terrace wall shouted: “They are only children.”

      In the space of 40 seconds, four boys who had been playing hide and seek among the fishermen’s shacks built on the wall were dead. They were aged between seven and 11; two were named Mohammad, one Zakaria and the youngest Ahed. All were members of the extended Bakr family.

      Three others who were injured made it to the hotel: Hamad Bakr, aged 13, with shrapnel in his chest; his cousin Motasem, 11, injured in his head and legs, and Mohammad Abu Watfah, 21, who was hit by shrapnel in his stomach. (...)

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      à comparer avec le témoignage d’un autre journaliste :

      Des missiles israéliens tuent quatre enfants à Gaza
      ▻http://www.franceinter.fr/depeche-des-missiles-israeliens-tuent-quatre-enfants-a-gaza
      Par Ludovic Piedtenu, Olivier Bénis | 16 Juillet 2014

      Ils sont tombés sur une plage près d’un hôtel où résident des journalistes, tuant quatre enfants qui jouaient dans une cabane. De son côté, le Hamas a refusé officiellement le cessez-le-feu proposé par l’Égypte.

      C’est un bombardement qui risque de porter un nouveau coup important à l’image de l’opération de l’armée israélienne : plusieurs missiles ont frappé une plage à quelques mètres de l’hôtel où se trouve la presse internationale. Et le bilan est lourd : quatre enfants tués, selon nos reporters sur place.

      Les tirs ont frappé une cabane située sur une plage de Gaza. Un groupe d’enfants était en train d’y jouer. Quelques-uns ont réussi à s’enfuir après l’explosion du premier missile, d’autres sont morts presque immédiatement après le bombardement.

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    11 Palestinians killed in Gaza, death toll passes 200 | Maan News Agency
    ►http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=713476

    GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli airstrikes killed eleven Palestinians since midnight, bringing the death toll in Israel’s military offensive to over 200 Palestinians.

    An Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis targeted a civilian car killing Omar Abu Daqqa, Ibrahim Abu Daqqa, and Khadra Abu Daqqa, 65.

    Five others were injured in the strike.

    Israel also targeted houses belonging to the al-Ashi, Abu Hashim, and Kallab families in Gaza City, and the al-Kafarneh family house in Jabaliya.

    Ealier, Ashraf Abu Shanab, 33, was killed in Shabura camp in Rafah and Muhammad Abu Audah and Muhammad Zahouq were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Abu Audah family home.

    Four others were injured.

    A five-year-old girl also died after falling from a building following an airstrike on a residential building in Rafah.

    Islamic Jihad fighter Muhammad al-Dabari was killed in an airstrike on a Rafah building, while two men were killed in Khan Younis.

    Ahmad al-Nawajha died from injuries sustained when a missile struck his car in Rafah before midnight.

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      Israel raid in Gaza City kills 4 children
      ►http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=713643

      GAZA CITY (AFP) — Four children were killed in Gaza City on Wednesday, medics said, in Israeli shelling witnessed by AFP journalists.

      All four were on the beach when the attack took place, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said, with several injured children taking refuge at a nearby hotel where journalists were staying.

      They were reportedly attacked by Israeli naval boats, witnesses told Ma’an, and were members of the same family.

      The latest attack brings the Palestinian death toll since midnight to 13, with over 200 killed since Israel’s assault began last week.

      Ahed Atef Bakr 10 yrs old 2) Zakaria Ahed Bakr 10 yrs old 3) Mohamed Ramez Bakr 11 yrs old 4) Ismael Mohamed Bakr 9 yrs old
      ▻https://twitter.com/AymanM/status/489426493949243392

      ▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/world/middleeast/gaza-strip-beach-explosion-kills-children.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

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      Civilians rushed to help after explosions hit a beach where children were playing in Gaza City. Four Palestinian boys died. Credit Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

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      Israeli raids on Gaza kill 10, including 6 children
      Published today (updated) 16/07/2014 22:39
      ►http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=713643

      Five Palestinians including a three-year-old were also killed on Wednesday afternoon in an airstrike in the Absan area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

      Akram Muhammad Abu Amer , 34, and his brother Kamal Muhammad Abu Amer , 38, were killed in the airstrike, along with Hussein Abd al-Latif al-Astal , 23, Roqayya al-Astal, 70, Yasmin Mahmud al-Astal, 4, and Osama Mahmud al-Astal , 6.

      Elsewhere, five people were injured including two critically in an airstrike on Shamlakh family home in Sheikh Ajleen neighborhood in southern Gaza City.

      Muhammad Kamal Abd al-Rahman also succumbed to wounds from a bombing in Gaza earlier in the day.

      The latest attacks brings the Palestinian death toll since midnight to 23, with 221 killed and 1,570 injured since Israel’s assault began last week.

      A Gaza-based rights group says over 80 percent of the victims are civilians.

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      Killed Tuesday 7/15:

      1. Abdullah Mohammad al-‘Arjani , 19, Khan Younis.
      2. Suleiman Abu Louly , 33, Rafah.
      3. Saleh Sa’id Dahleez , 20, Rafah.
      4. Yasser Eid al-Mahmoum , 18, Rafah.
      5. Ismael Fattouh Ismael , 24, Gaza City.
      6. Khalil Sh’aafy, Juhr Ed-Deek – Gaza.
      7. Sobhi Abdul-hamid Mousa , 77, Khan Younis.

      ►http://imemc.org/article/68429

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