Israeli troops and Hamas gunmen exchanged fire in northern Gaza early Sunday—hours after Israel declared a “unilateral cease-fire.” Hamas says it will continue resistance as long as Israeli troops remain.
The UN General Assembly demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an Arab summit in Qatar called for regional states to break diplomatic ties with Israel, as the death toll in the three-week offensive reached 1,170.
Israeli strikes set a UN aid compound, media buildings and a hospital ablaze as tanks rolled deep into Gaza City and diplomats struggled to find a way to halt the offensive that has now killed 1,075.
Bolivian President Evo Morales announced he is breaking diplomatic ties with Israel in protest against its offensive in Gaza, and that he would seek to have Prime Minister Ehud Olmert charged with “genocide.”
Dozens of Israeli tanks pushed into Gaza City, closing the ring on the city’s center, with air-strikes again targetting a mosque and several other civilian structures—even as Egypt announced that Hamas had accepted Cairo’s ceasefire plan.
Ten activists from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) blocked the entrance to Israel’s consulate in LA for three hours, with a banner reading “Closed For War Crimes.”
Israeli forces battled Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza City, while Israeli warplanes bombed Rafah. More rockets from Lebanon meanwhile fell in the Galilee.
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