AFP – International talks on the Middle East set for Friday took on new urgency after Israeli warplanes targeted the Gaza Strip in response to a fatal rocket attack.
AP – Palestinian militants fired a rocket at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing a Thai farm worker, Israeli medics said, in the first death from a rocket attack since Israel’s Gaza offensive last year.
Reuters – Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing a Thai agricultural worker, while the European Union’s foreign affairs chief was visiting the Hamas-controlled enclave.
The EU’s foreign policy chief arrives in the Gaza Strip as militants there fire a rocket into Israel, killing one person.
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A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel kills a man, the first fatal rocket attack since Israel’s campaign last year.
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AP – The U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights’ has criticized Israeli and Palestinian authorities for failing to properly investigate alleged war crimes last year in the Gaza Strip.
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AFP – EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said Saturday she hopes to get into the Palestinian Gaza Strip during a Middle East trip this month, as Europe pushes for renewed peace talks.
AFP – Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin on Friday slammed the “inhumane… siege” of the Gaza Strip, following a visit last week, but voiced optimism that indirect peace talks may begin.
AP – Under a sea blockade, the coastal Gaza Strip has now become a seafood importer. Its desperate fishermen — cut off from plentiful fishing grounds by Israeli patrol boats — have turned to sneaking into Egyptian waters in tiny motorboats to buy their catch and bring it home.
Reuters – The United States pressed Israel on Friday to ease its blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, an issue Arab officials have urged Washington to address at it tries to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
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