Gaza Strip

Sobbing and shaking, Ismail Abu Musallam leaned against the wall of a hospital Friday, waiting for three of his children to be prepared for burial. They were killed as they slept when an Israeli tank shell hit their home, burying 11-year-old Ahmed, 14-year-old Walaa and 16-year-old Mohammed under debris in their beds.

As Israel faced resistance in its ground incursion into Gaza Strip on the 11th day of its operation, fear and death go hand in hand for Gazans.

The casualties rose yesterday in Gaza where Seyyid Ramiz, the brother of 11-year-old Muhammad, who was killed on a beach while playing football on July 16, spoke to daily Hürriyet.

Around 400 people marched through center of Sarajevo on Friday, demanding an end to violence in the Gaza strip.

Many of the protesters were from Palestine while others were citizens of Sarajevo who joined them, carrying a big Palestinian flag and banners calling for an end to killing.

Israeli diplomatic missions targeted by demonstrators

ANKARA -- The Turkish police used water cannons to disperse demonstrators who threw stones at the Israeli consulate in Istanbul.

They were protesting against Israel's ground offensive in the Gaza Strip.

President Abdullah Gül has urged Israel to end its military operations on Gaza Strip, warning against “massive consequences,” and called on the U.N. Security Council to make a “cogent decision to end the Israeli offensive.”

Israeli forces backed by tanks and warplanes July 18 pushed into the edges of Gaza in a major operation to destroy Hamas tunnels that the Palestinian Islamist group warned was doomed to fail.

Israeli forces backed by tanks and warplanes July 18 pushed into the edges of Gaza in a major operation to destroy Hamas tunnels that the Palestinian Islamist group warned was doomed to fail.

PM Erdoğan delivers some of his strongest language to date on Gaza, accusing Israel of committing a ‘genocide’ in the besieged strip Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on July 17 accused Israel of attempting a “systematic genocide” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in one of his strongest criticisms yet of the country.

France said Wednesday the European Union could set up observer missions at border crossings between the Gaza Strip and Israel to try to encourage a lasting truce between the two sides.
      
The proposal by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius came as an Israeli air campaign on Gaza that has killed 208 people entered its ninth day after a failed ceasefire effort.
      

A woman and a child were among three people killed in an Israeli strike on southern Gaza on Wednesday, raising the overall death toll to 208, the emergency services said.