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  Second group of wounded Palestinians to leave Gaza for Turkey

  
  20.08.2014

  17 Palestinians wounded during the recent conflict will be flown to Turkey for medical treatment, under Israel’s international humanitarian cooperation policy following Operation Protective ...

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  Statement by PM Netanyahu

  
  20.08.2014

  Operation Protective Edge has not ended. It ss a continuing campaign. If Hamas fires, they will be hit very hard. I look forward to restarting peace negotiations with a Palestinian governme ...

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  Hamas tweets its world view

  
  19.08.2014

  Hamas: "We are continuing our struggle. ALLAH IS OUR GOAL, THE PROPHET IS OUR LEADER, JIHAD IS OUR WAY, AND DEATH FOR ALLAH IS OUR MOST EXALTED WISH."

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  PM Netanyahu meets with youth movement representatives in Sderot

  
  18.08.2014

  PM Netanyahu: We are in a combined military-diplomatic campaign, in which our unity and our steadfastness are what will be victorious.

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  PM Netanyahu and DM Yaalon hold security meeting

  
  18.08.2014

  PM Netanyahu: "The Israeli team in Cairo has been instructed to insist on Israel's security needs and the IDF is prepared for very strong action if fire is resumed."

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  PM Netanyahu's remarks at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting

  
  17.08.2014

  If Hamas thinks that it can cover up its military loss with a diplomatic achievement, it is mistaken. If Hamas thinks that continued sporadic firing will cause us to make concessions,

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  Reaction to conclusions by the EU Foreign Affairs Council

  
  15.08.2014

  Israel, like the EU Foreign Affairs Council, attributes great importance to the Egyptian initiative to achieve a stable, durable ceasefire. Israel welcomes the repeated calls by the EU Fore ...

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  Major media sources cast doubt on Hamas casualty claims

  
  14.08.2014

  Evidence collected so far about casualties in the Gaza Strip during Operation Protective Edge contradicts claims that the IDF attacks were "indiscriminate" and that the vast majority of tho ...

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  PM Netanyahu meets with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo

  
  13.08.2014

  There is a moral divide that is evident today in the world; on one side you see democracies committing to a real future for their people, and on the other you have Islamist tyrannies that p ...

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  PM Netanyahu comments on the UN Human Rights Council

  
  13.08.2014

  The committee chairman has already decided that Hamas is not a terrorist organization. They should visit Damascus, Baghdad and Tripoli, ISIS, the Syrian army and Hamas - there they will fin ...

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