Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Timeline: Gaza crisis

June 19: An Egyptian-brokered six-month ceasefire between Israel and Hamas 
comes into force.
November 5: Israel closes all of its crossings with Gaza.
December 14: Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal announces the six-month 
ceasefire with Israel will not be extended.
December 19: Six-month ceasefire between Hamas and Israel officially 
expires.
December 21: Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister, says that her 
primary goal if she wins Israeli elections, will be to overthrow Hamas.
December 27: Israel begins assault on Gaza, codenamed "Operation Cast Lead", 
by launching air raids that kill more than 225 Palestinians.
One Israeli is killed and six others wounded in missile attacks by 
Palestinian fighters.
December 28: Israeli aircraft bomb the Islamic University in Gaza City and 
the length of the Gaza-Egypt border, taking out more than 40 tunnels used to 
smuggle vital goods to the strip.
Hundreds of Israeli infantry and armoured forces mass on the border of the 
territory, and the army is given approval to call up reservists to bolster 
its fighting strength.
December 29: Israeli air strikes hit the interior ministry in Gaza City as 
Israel declares a "closed military zone" around the Gaza strip.
December 30: Rockets fired from Palestinian positions kill three Israelis, 
taking the death toll from Palestinian rocket attacks to four since the 
beginning of the Israeli offensive.
The European Union calls for "an unconditional halt to rocket attacks by 
Hamas on Israel and an end to Israeli military action".
December 31: Members of the UN Security Council end an emergency meeting on 
the crisis after failing to agree on the wording of a draft resolution.
January 1: Hamas official Nizar Rayyan is killed along with 14 members of 
his family in an Israeli raid.
January 2: Egypt begins talks with Hamas over a way to end the conflict.
Around 25,000 Palestinians have fled the fighting [AFP]
January 3: As Israel begins its ground offensive in Gaza, at least 11 
Palestinians, including one child, are killed after Israeli forces strike a 
mosque in the town of Beit Lahiya.
January 4: Israeli forces cut Gaza in half and ring Gaza City itself as an 
Israeli soldier is killed in the ongoing offensive.
The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, pledges an 
additional $4.2 million of emergency aid for Gaza and calls on Israel to 
respect international law.
An Israeli air strike hits two ambulances in Gaza, killing four paramedics.
January 5: Air and naval bombardments kill 45 Palestinians.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, holds talks with Hosni Mubarak, his 
Egyptian counterpart,  to push for a truce deal.
January 6: An Israeli strike on a UN school in the northern town of Jabaliya 
kills 43 Palestinians and injures at least 100 who had taken refuge inside 
the school.
Israeli strikes hit two other schools, killing two in the southern town of 
Khan Younis and three in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.
January 7: 11 Palestinians are killed by air strikes and shelling in Gaza 
City and in the north of the Strip.
Violence continues after Israel temporarily halts attacks in Gaza City for 
three hours to provide a "humanitarian respite."
The Israeli military drops leaflets warning thousands of people in the Rafah 
zone on the Egyptian border to leave their houses or face air strikes.
More than 4,300 Palestinians have been wounded in the fighting [AFP]
January 8: The UN's refugee organisation in Gaza suspends all aid deliveries 
after an Israeli tank attacks a UN convoy, killing one Palestinian driver 
and injuring two other people.
Israeli bulldozers cross into Gaza and destroy a number of houses.
At least three rockets fired from Lebanon hit the northern Isreali town of 
Nahariya.
The UN Security Council passes resolution, with 14 votes in favour and only 
the US abstaining, that "stresses the urgency of and calls for an immediate, 
durable and fully respected ceasefire, leading to the full withdrawal of 
Israeli forces from Gaza".
January 9: Israeli attacks continue in Gaza soon after passing of UN 
resolution, with a series of explosions and gunfire heard.
Six Palestinians reportedly killed in an air strike in the northern part of 
the Gaza Strip, raising the Palestinian death toll in Gaza to around 770, 
including more than 200 children, since the Israeli offensive began.
January 10: Israel drops leaflets on Gaza City warning of a "new phase" in 
its two-week-old offensive.
Eight family members are killed by an Israeli tank shell in Jabaliya, 
raising the Palestinian death toll in Gaza to 831 people.
Khalid Meshaal, the exiled political leader of Hamas, says that Israel must 
halt the Gaza offensive and lift the blockade before Hamas agrees to a 
ceasefire deal.
January 11: Israel is accused of firing white phosporous bombs on 
densely-populated Gaza in violation of international law.
Israel reports to the UN that troops in the occupied Golan Heights came 
under small arms fire from Syria, but there were no injuries.
Israel began sending reservists into the Gaza Strip as the military 
offensive continued unabated for the 16th consecutive day.
January 12: Israel continues its offensive and the UN Human Rights Council 
adopts a non-binding resolution condemning Israel's military offensive.
The resolution calls for an international mission to be immediately sent to 
Gaza to investigate Israel's actions.
The toll rises to 935 Palestinians killed and 4,300 wounded. At least 25,000 
people in Gaza are internally displaced but are unable to flee because 
crossing points remain closed. 

 Palestinian fighters.
Peccato che gli israeliani siano stati uccisi *PRIMA* dell'assalto a Gaza.
-Stefano 

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