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Gaza Airstrike Kills Senior Hamas Commanders

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dozens of people may be trapped in the rubble of a building destroyed as the Hamas figures were killed, Palestinian officials say.</span></div>
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<span class="last-updated__time" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">08:47, UK,</span></span><span class="last-updated__day" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<span class="last-updated__day" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thursday 21</span> <span class="last-updated__month-year" style="box-sizing: border-box;">August 2014</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">People may be trapped in the rubble of the building hit in Rafah</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Three senior Hamas military commanders have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian group said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It has named the men as Mohammed Abu Shammala, Raed al Attar and Mohammed Barhoum, saying they died along with three other people overnight.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The commanders were all killed in the bombing of a house in the southern town of Rafah, one of 20 airstrikes the Israeli military said it carried out after midnight local time on Wednesday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Israel's security agency Shin Bet confirmed the deaths of Mr Shamaleh and Mr al Attar in an email to Associated Press, but made no mention of Mr Barhoum.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The aftermath of the airstrike that failed to kill Mohammed Deif</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Palestinian health official Ashraf al Kidra said "dozens" of people were still missing, believed to be trapped in the rubble of the four-storey building hit in the Rafah airstrike.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Emergency services spokesman said four Palestinians attending a funeral in northern Gaza City were also killed when an airstrike hit a graveyard in northern Gaza City.</span></div>
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<span class="video__caption" id="video__caption-1321833" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; min-height: 40px; padding: 10px 8px; width: 540px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="video__type" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Video:</span> <span class="video__teaser" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hamas Chief's Wife And Son Killed</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Hamas deaths came after Israel apparently unsuccessfully targeted<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://news.sky.com/story/1321811/hamas-chief-deserves-to-die-like-bin-laden" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border-bottom-color: rgb(203, 203, 203); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Hamas's top military commander, Mohammed Deif</a></span>, on Tuesday. Instead, his wife and seven-month-old son were killed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Palestinian officials say more than 2,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed since Israel began its latest offensive in response to rocket attacks from Gaza.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Israel says hundreds of the dead were Palestinian militants. Sixty-four Israeli soldiers and three civilians in Israel have been killed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Egyptian-mediated talks to end the weeks of fierce fighting in Gaza collapsed on Tuesday when violence broke out after 10 days of relative calm.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="gallery__module-type" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gallery:</span> Fighting Resumes In Israel-Gaza Conflict</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We will not stop until we guarantee full security and quiet for the residents of the south and all citizens of Israel."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Below is a press release from the Nigerian Police...</span><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Inspector-General of Police, Ag. IGP Suleiman Abba NPM, mni, today, August 20, 2014 at Force Headquarters, Abuja, received the US Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency, James F. Entwistle.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The US Ambassador congratulated the Ag. IGP on his new appointment as the Police Boss and thanked the Nigeria Police Force for its high level of co-operation and huge partnership with the US Embassy in Nigeria.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Ambassador thereafter presented High tech Bomb disposal robots/equipment to the Nigeria Police Force. He also reassured the Ag. IGP that his country will continue to render relevant supports to the Force in the areas of training and security cooperation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The IGP, while responding, appreciated the Ambassador’s courtesy visit and thanked the US government for assisting the Nigeria Police Force in areas of investigation, management of scene of crime as well as position of equipment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Describing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) executed by the Nigeria Police Force and the US government recently as a huge partnership that will improve and modernize Police training in Nigeria, the IGP restated his commitment to continue to drive reforms and transformation of the Force in order to reposition the Force for better service delivery and promised that the newly donated equipment would be put to effective use.</span></div>
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Below is a press release from the Nigerian Police... The Inspector-General of Police, Ag. IGP Suleiman Abba NPM, mni, today, August ...

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WASHINGTON — Airstrikes on towns in northern Iraq seized by Islamist militants began late Thursday in what Kurdish and Iraqi officials called the first stage of an American-led intervention to blunt the militants’ advance and provide emergency aid to tens of thousands of refugees.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Pentagon firmly denied that American forces had begun a bombing campaign. But Pentagon officials said it was possible that allies of the United States, either the Iraqi or Turkish militaries, had conducted the bombing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kurdish and Iraqi officials attributed the bombing campaign to American forces. An announcement on Kurdish television of what was described as an American intervention prompted street celebrations and horn-honking by residents of towns under seige by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kurdish officials said the bombings had initially targeted ISIS fighters who had seized two towns, Gwer and Mahmour. A top Iraqi official in Baghdad close to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq said that the Americans had consulted with the Iraqi government Thursday night about starting the campaign, the government had agreed and the bombing had begun.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Earlier in the day, administration aides had said Mr. Obama was considering airstrikes or airdrops of food and medicine to address a humanitarian crisis among as many as 40,000 members of religious minorities in Iraq, who have been dying of heat and thirst on a mountaintop where they took shelter after death threats from ISIS fighters.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In meetings with his national security team at the White House on Thursday morning, Mr. Obama weighed a series of options, ranging from dropping humanitarian supplies on Mount Sinjar to mounting military strikes on the fighters from ISIS who are now at the base of the mountain, a senior administration official said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“There could be a humanitarian catastrophe there,” a second administration official said, adding that a decision from Mr. Obama was expected “imminently — this could be a fast-moving train.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The administration official said that “the president is weighing both passive and active options,” defining passive action as dropping humanitarian supplies. “More active, we could target the ISIL elements that are besieging the base of the mountain,” he added, using an alternative name for ISIS, the Sunni extremist group that has taken control of much of northern Iraq.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The White House declined to say whether Mr. Obama was weighing airstrikes or airdrops in Iraq, but the press secretary, Josh Earnest, said the United States was disturbed by what he described as “cold and calculated” attacks by ISIS on religious minorities in Iraq.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“These actions have exacerbated an already dire crisis, and the situation is nearing a humanitarian catastrophe,” Mr. Earnest told reporters. The campaign of attacks by ISIS, he said, “demonstrates a callous disregard for human rights and is deeply disturbing.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asked specifically about military options, Mr. Earnest said, “I’m not in a position to rule things on the table or off the table.” But he reiterated that there would be no American combat troops in Iraq and that any military action would be extremely limited.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“There are many problems in Iraq,” he said. “This one is a particularly acute one, because we’re seeing people persecuted because of their ethnic or religious identities.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr. Earnest added: “There are no American military solutions to the problems in Iraq. These problems can only be solved with Iraqi political solutions.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Members of the Council of State rose from an emergency meeting on Thursday with a resolution to support President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure that the current spate of terrorism in parts of the country ends before December.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They also resolved to put an end to all discriminatory practices in states including the registration and “deportation” of non-indigenes as well as different school fees for indigenes and non-indigenes in states-owned institutions among others.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The council presided over by Jonathan has the Vice President, President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives, all former Heads of State, all former Chief Justices of Nigeria and all state governors as members.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All former Heads of State, except former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) attended the emergency meeting. President of the Senate, David Mark, was also absent.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Governors Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Sullivan Chime (Enugu) and the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) briefed State House correspondents at the end of the meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Aliyu said it was the resolution of council members that all hands must be on the deck to end insurgency in parts of the country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said they would work hard to ensure that the predictions by some foreigners that Nigeria would cease to exist as a united body beyond 2015 remained a wishful thinking.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The governor added that the council observed that leaders, particularly politicians remained the only threats to the country and democracy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said a collective decision was taken to stop the inflammatory statements always attributed to politicians.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said, “More fundamental of the issues is the bucks stopping with the leadership. In fact, it came to the fore that if there is any threat to either the state or democracy probably the threat is coming from politicians and from leaders of the country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We must understand the boundaries of leadership and also the responsibilities that are involved. Leadership is not about beauty contest.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“In leadership, you must take difficult decisions and really go about implementing them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“So, all the things came to the fore at the meeting and subsequently, each of us made it a deliberate resolution to all be bi-partisan or non-partisan to support the President to make sure that we get rid of this insurgency and indeed suggesting that before December.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The governor said there was nothing religious or Islamic about the activities of the dreaded Boko Haram sect.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said the important thing was for adherents of religions to respect the rights of adherents of other religions aside from theirs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Akpabio said the council frowned at the registration of Nigerians in parts of the country and directed that the exercise be stopped forthwith.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He disclosed further that the council set up a six-member committee saddled with the responsibility of further identifying other discriminatory practices across the country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The committee which has two months to submit its report, according to him, has governors of Niger, Sokoto, Enugu, Gombe, Akwa Ibom and Ondo States as members.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said with the submission of the report, the council would then decide if the National Assembly would be approached to ensure that changes are made.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said the ex-leaders proffered solutions to the security challenges in the country while council members commended security agencies.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said, “Council viewed the report seriously that some citizens were being deported; deportatiom should be from one country to the other but where you have a Nigerian who is being returned to his state of origin to other states, then you know there is a problem.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We felt that that was capable of disrupting the unity of the country, making Nigerians to become apprehensive and unsafe. ‎</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Also, council frowned at the idea of even registering Nigerians in various parts of the country and felt this must be brought to an end immediately.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“And so we looked at all these issues and the role every leader should play from the local government level to the federal level. The role each one of us should play to ensure that we solidify the unity of this country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We also looked at these discriminatory practices across board from all parts of the country: North, South, West and the East and we felt all those issues must be brought to front burner, solutions proffer to ensure that Nigerians are united, live freely and do their businesses without hinderance.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chime on his part said he saw commitment to save the country by both past and present leaders who attended the meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said the willingness to remain one Nigeria will lead to the abolition of disclosure of states of origin.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rather, he said people would only be asked to disclose where they reside.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said those of them who were around knew that was how the civil war started.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said, “Those of us who were around will remember very well that that was how the civil war started, we saw the danger, we said there is really need for every body to be sensitised on this. It looks very innocent now to say well, I have security concerns, I can register any body who is not from here.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“But you don’t think that you have some people on the other side, what will you feel if they have the same concerns and decide to register everybody who is not from there?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“That is not the way the framers of the constitution envisaged that the constitution should be operated.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“That is why this meeting was held and I am very happy that there was a lot of commitment, the governors who are the main operators, who are the leaders at that level are all committed that this issue is resolved. There a lot of commitment and support across party lines by those who attended.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking recently on the spate of bombings and attacks in the country, GO of the Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo said that Nigeria is on the verge of a break up. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I hope that we are willing to find solution to it. I would be the last person in this world to believe that government has not discovered those who are behind Boko Haram. Otherwise, we don’t have any intelligence service in our country. Are they sacred cows that cannot be brought to book? Until we cut the source of their supplies and get those who are involved, we cannot stop them. But the danger is this, and I must say it here, we are at the verge of a break up. That is the truth. It’s unfortunate. The Nigerian nation is too intelligent to claim not to have discovered those who are behind this. So, I really believe it’s all in the hands of the authorities to decide whether they want to confront the issue headlong or to keep watching it until Nigeria breaks up......All that the church can do is to pray. The church is not in power, it has no political power. And when invited, we give advice, when required or called upon. You can’t call someone and say can I advise you?" - Bishop David Oyedepo</span></blockquote>
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