World press on the crisis in Gaza (July 14, 2014)"Palestinians Flee Northern Gaza as a Cease-Fire Appears Elusive", reads the title of the article published by the New York Times."Several thousand Palestinians, defying the urging of Hamas to remain in their homes, fled areas in northern Gaza early Sunday after Israel warned them through fliers and phone calls of major attacks to come", writes the newspaper.“We left because of the terrifying bombing in the night and because of the fliers that warned that any moving body after noon will be struck,” the newspaper quotes Rafik Said al-Sultan, one of the refugees. “We can’t live here. There are no beds and few bathrooms, and men and women are here together, ” he described the conditions in which refugees have to live."But as the bombing and rocketing continued, there was growing international pressure on Israel to settle for a cease-fire, called for by France, Britain and a nonbinding resolution of the United Nations. Those calls were intensified by the bombing that killed some of a center’s disabled residents early Saturday, and the funeral on Sunday for the 17 relatives who died in a bombing late Saturday when Israel tried to kill Gen. Tayseer al-Batsh, the Hamas police chief. General Batsh, who was seriously wounded, was visiting his aunt’s house, which was reduced to rubble, neighbors said, by bombs that sent body parts at least 100 yards", reports the New York Times.The campaign’s death toll among Palestinians was 158, more than half of them noncombatants, and more than 1,100 people have been hurt, the Health Ministry said, writes the New York Times.
"Palestinians Flee Northern Gaza as a Cease-Fire Appears Elusive", reads the title of the article published by the New York Times.
"Several thousand Palestinians, defying the urging of Hamas to remain in their homes, fled areas in northern Gaza early Sunday after Israel warned them through fliers and phone calls of major attacks to come", writes the newspaper.
“We left because of the terrifying bombing in the night and because of the fliers that warned that any moving body after noon will be struck,” the newspaper quotes Rafik Said al-Sultan, one of the refugees. “We can’t live here. There are no beds and few bathrooms, and men and women are here together, ” he described the conditions in which refugees have to live.
"But as the bombing and rocketing continued, there was growing international pressure on Israel to settle for a cease-fire, called for by France, Britain and a nonbinding resolution of the United Nations. Those calls were intensified by the bombing that killed some of a center’s disabled residents early Saturday, and the funeral on Sunday for the 17 relatives who died in a bombing late Saturday when Israel tried to kill Gen. Tayseer al-Batsh, the Hamas police chief. General Batsh, who was seriously wounded, was visiting his aunt’s house, which was reduced to rubble, neighbors said, by bombs that sent body parts at least 100 yards", reports the New York Times.
The campaign’s death toll among Palestinians was 158, more than half of them noncombatants, and more than 1,100 people have been hurt, the Health Ministry said, writes the New York Times.
