
QUAKEWATCH:Deadly Series of Quakes Hit Indonesia;Looking for victims...

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Obama keeps silent on explosive Gaza conflict

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Hamas Spokesman To Israeli Army: ‘Gaza Will Be Your Cemetery’
"We will not abandon the battlefield, and we will stay on the thorny course and we will fight until the last breath," Hamas spokesman Ismail Radwan said in a statement on the Palestinian television station Al-Aqsa.
Europe at odds over Israeli land offensive in Gaza

By James Mackenzie
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Europe+odds+over+Israel/1139029/story.html
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EU presidency: Israel ground op in Gaza 'defensive not offensive'

By Haaretz Service and Reuters
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052315.html
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US blocks UN Security Council action on Gaza

By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_un_israel_palestinians
"Council fails to reach Gaza consensus":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS3CwGUgvh0
UK ambassador on UN's Gaza stance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPJ_MJlBdi8
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QUAKEWATCH:Tsunami Warning Issued After 7.8 Magnitude Quake Strikes Indonesia
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Hamas leader says it ready to confront Gaza invasion

By Nidal al-Mughrabi
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSLS69391620090102
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Hamas: Israel will pay heavy price for ground operation

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Barak admits ground incursion poses danger to soldiers

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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230733154913&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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Top Iran official holds talks with Syria on Gaza violence

By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent and The Associated Press
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052305.html
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Operation Cast Lead ground incursion commences
ISRAELI TANKS ENTER GAZA

FOX News' Mike Tobin and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
Soldiers Exchange Fire with Hamas gunmen Inside Gaza Strip:
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Brainwashing hatred: Iranian toddlers taught about martyrdom in wake of Gaza op."
Source:MEMRI TV
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Bush:Hamas attacks are acts of terror

By ASSOCIATED PRESS--WASHINGTON
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230733150017&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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Israel Blasts Range of Hamas Targets
Israel continues its assault on Hamas militants in Gaza, bombing a range of targets even as an international truce appears to be gaining momentum...
Palestinian Police Ban Pro-Hamas Protests in Widening Crackdown on Violent Demonstrations

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475305,00.html
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Israel Allows Some Gazans to Flee Bloodshed
Israel allowed several hundred Palestinians with foreign passports to flee Gaza on Friday. The evacuees told of water shortages, electricity and medicine, echoing a U.N. warning of a deepening humanitarian crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip...
3 hurt as rockets hit buildings in South

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Sakhnin:Over 10,000 protest Gaza action

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IDF begins shelling northern Gaza for 1st time since op began

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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1230733150721
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Protesters in Washington Condemn Israeli Attacks
Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington to condemn Israel's attacks in Gaza. They marched from the Israeli embassy to the Egyptian embassy, and demonstrated against Egypt, too...
Thousands protest in Europe at Gaza offensive

ANGER AT WESTERN REACTION
Paul Mukerji, 42, from Birmingham, acknowledged Israel had security reasons but called its action disproportionate."The best way for peace for Palestinians and Israelis is to end the occupation," said Mukerji, who said he had spent six months working with Jewish and Palestinian peace groups.Ali Saeed, 24, from Luton, said Western governments had failed to condemn Israel's actions....
By Adrian Croft
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Iran Warns Israel Not to Launch a Ground Op into the Gaza Strip

By ASSOCIATED PRESS--TEHERAN, Iran
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Palestinian terrorists suffer even more defeat in the court of public opinion...
Israeli Children Flee Palestinian Rocket Attack
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=74e_1230852151
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Global terror attacks feared due to Gaza op:Counter-Terrorism Bureau warns of rise in tensions between Muslim, Jews worldwide in response to Operation

By Daniel Edelson
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GAZA Protest - Auckland, New Zealand
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Muslim Family Kicked Off Of Plane After ‘Safest Seats’ Remark
"We generally like to sit in the middle because I've always been told that is the safest place to sit, but then my sister-in-law said it is actually safer to sit in the back of the airplane if anything should happen to the flight."
Muslims around the world protest Gaza assault



TEHRAN, Iran-Thousands protested Friday against Israel's air offensive targeting the Hamas rulers of Gaza at demonstrations in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe.Similar protests have been held daily across the Middle East since Israel launched the bombing campaign last Saturday. But these gatherings held mostly after Friday prayers were larger-mainly because Friday prayers are a traditional gathering opportunity for Muslims-and seemed to be more far-reaching in the number of countries where protests occurred.The Israeli offensive has killed more than 400 Palestinians and sparked outrage among the Arab public. Israel says its offensive is aimed at silencing Hamas rockets.In Tehran, a crowd of about 6,000 stretching for a half-mile (kilometer) marched from prayers at Tehran University to Palestine Square, chanting "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" and burning Israeli flags.Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki warned Israel that entering Gaza "by land will be the biggest mistake of the Zionist regime." He vowed Israel would be "defeated" in a ground attack.Iran is a major backer of Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, giving it millions of dollars-and weapons and rockets, according to the U.S. and Israel, though Tehran denies arming Hamas.In Egypt, authorities clamped down hard to prevent protests Friday. Hundreds of riot police surrounded Cairo's main Al-Azhar Mosque, where a rally had been called, and scuffled with would-be protesters, keeping most from approaching.Police also arrested 40 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, an opposition group that had called for pro-Gaza rallies.More than 3,000 people marched in solidarity with Gaza in the northern Sinai city of el-Arish, Egypt's closest city to Gaza.Many governments in the Arab world such as Egypt have been wary about protests at home over Israel's Gaza assault lest the protests spiral out of control.In Jordan, police fired volleys of tear gas and scuffled with dozens of protesters who tried to push through barriers to reach the Israeli Embassy in Amman. A few of the protesters threw stones at police, but the security forces dispersed the group, arresting several.About 30,000 Jordanians gathered at a stadium in Amman shouting their support for Gaza and calling for the abolition of the Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty signed in 1994.More than 10,000 Muslims marched through Indonesia's capital Jakarta to protest the ongoing bombing raids in Gaza, aiming fake missiles labeled "Target: Tel Aviv, Israel" at the U.S. Embassy.Protests were also held after Friday prayers in other cities in the world's most populous Muslim country, in what was the largest turnout since Israel began the operation.In the Afghan capital of Kabul, about 3,000 people gathered outside a prominent mosque, according to police estimates. Men in the crowd threw stones and shoes at an effigy of President George W. Bush.Dozens of demonstrators gathered in the Philippines capital Manila, carrying placards saying Israel is a "butcher of children" and accusing it of war crimes.In Turkey, Israel's closest ally in the region, some 5,000 people denounced the Israeli raids outside a mosque in Istanbul, burning Israeli and U.S. flags and reciting funeral prayers for the victims. The state-run Anatolia news agency says similar protests were held in several other Turkish cities.In Syria, some 2,000 marched in a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, carrying Palestinian flags and chanting "jihad will unite us," and later burned an Israeli flag.In Sudan, thousands marched in downtown Khartoum from mosques to the main Martyrs Square, urging Muslims to jihad and denouncing Israel and America.Small protests erupted as well in the Palestinian territories.In the West Bank city of Ramallah, thousands demonstrated in solidarity with Gazans, calling for Palestinian unity and accusing Arab leaders of silence over Israel's bombardment.Ex-Eurythmics singer Annie Lennox and other celebrities, including activist Bianca Jagger, comedian Alexei Sayle and politicians including former London mayor Ken Livingstone, held a press conference in London demanding Israel halt the onslaught.In Bern, Switzerland, hundreds of people marched, calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and demanding that the international community impose sanctions against Israel.Russian authorities detained about 37 people after a small protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Moscow demanding an end to attacks on the Gaza Strip. The protests included members of Russia's many Muslim minorities.Hundreds of Muslims held a rally at the main mosque in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi after prayers, hoisting banners that said "Palestinian Blood Is Human Blood" and shouting for Kenya to sever ties with Israel.
By NASSER KARIMI--Associated Press Writer
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Rejecting truce, Olmert vows 'iron fist' against Hamas

Special correspondent Ahmed Abu Hamda contributed to this report from Gaza City, Gaza Strip.
By Dion Nissenbaum McClatchy Newspapers
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First Foreigners Evacuated from Gaza
Israel is allowing foreigners and Palestinian holders of foreign passports to flee from the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip.
5 civilians lightly wounded in rocket barrage on Ashkelon

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Hamas plans to defeat Israeli force with epic "last stand" at Gaza City

Pocket 1 will extend from the southernmost Philadelphi belt on the Egyptian border up to the southern outskirts of Khan Younis. Israeli units will then set about destroying the network of hundreds of smuggling tunnels which has kept Hamas supplied with arms, fuel and reinforcements through Sinai. Cairo may have tacitly approved the Israel plan.
Pocket 2 will cover the Khan Younes district up to the Kissufim junction.
Pocket 3 will cover the central region of the Gaza Strip up to the Karni Crossing, including the Moazi and El Bureij refugee camps.
Pocket 4 will encompass Jebalya, Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya, the primary rocket and missile sites, up to the northern border with Israel.
Pocket 5 An Israeli force will encircle Gaza City and send detachments into the town to liquidate Hamas targets and operatives from allied Palestinian terror groups.
Hamas believes the IDF force will be at its most vulnerable when its Gaza City siege force is faced with an active fighting front of 3,000-5,000 armed Palestinians. By day, they will mingle with the civilian population and by night emerge from hideouts in private homes to hit the Israeli armored forces from the rear with anti-tank weapons and suicide bombers.The Palestinian group's leaders are counting on inflicting casualties that will mount up week after week and wear Israeli forces down until they are driven into an ignominious retreat.
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5815
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U.S. Readying Afghan Surge Against Taliban

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Hamas Resilient Despite Israeli Onslaught

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Rice Vows Hard Work on Arranging Gaza Cease-fire
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused the militant Hamas organization of holding the people of Gaza hostage Friday and said the United States continues to seek a 'durable and sustainable' cease-fire...
Day 7 of Gaza operation: High police alert across Israel, Ashkelon takes brunt of rockets

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5816
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'Day of Wrath' Ordered as Israel Hits Hamas Homes

The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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