War Palestine Israel 9.27pm Monday 21 July Tony 3u4 Peace The worst day of fighting saw over 100 civilians killed mainly women and children , and 13 Israel soldiers killed .Tony GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- The U.N. chief and the U.S. secretary of state headed to Cairo on Monday to try to end two weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting that has killed at least 508 Palestinians and 20 Israelis and displaced tens of thousands of Gaza residents. The new cease-fire efforts by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry followed the deadliest day of fighting since the escalation erupted on July 8. In New York, the U.N. Security Council expressed serious concern about Gazas rising civilian death toll and demanded an immediate end to the fighting following an emergency session. As Israeli airstrikes continued to pound Gaza, rescue workers near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis were digging out bodies early Monday from the one-story home of the Abu Jamea family, flattened in one of the strikes overnight, said Ashraf al-Kidra, a Gaza health ministry official. Al-Kidra said the Palestinian death toll from the two-week offensive stood at 508 as of Monday morning. More than half of those victims - 268 - were killed since an Israeli ground operation in Gaza began late Thursday.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:29:09 +0000
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