Child given chance to live after mother died of her injuries following Israeli air raid in the Gaza Strip.


Gaza doctors have saved the life of an unborn baby after her mother was fatally wounded in an Israeli air raid on Friday.

Medics performed emergency surgery to deliver the girl, after her mother died on the operating table.

The child remains in critical condition.

Ukrainian troops have on many occasions used incendiary weapons and cluster bombs against militia-held cities, acts that are banned under the international law regulating warfare, the Russian military said.

The accusation was voiced on Friday by Major General Viktor Poznikhir, the deputy commander of the chief operations branch of the Russian General Staff. Earlier some media reports claimed that munitions, which are not allowed to be used against civilian targets, were used in eastern Ukraine by the Kiev troops in their assault on armed militias.

According to the general, the Russian military are certain of a number of such attacks by Ukrainian troops. Those include artillery shelling with incendiary shells on June 12 in Slavyansk, on June 24 and June 29 in Semyonovka and on July 7 in Lisichansk. There were also air strikes with incendiary bombs on June 21 in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk and on July 23 in Donetsk and shelling with cluster shells on June 24 in Semyonovka.

"We have sufficient proof that in the cities and villages of Ukraine I mentioned, ammunition based on phosphorus was used," Poznikhir said. In all those instances characteristic fast-falling clusters of sparks were spotted in the air and massive fires on the ground were reported, proving that those were not illumination flares.

The evidence behind the ministry's assessment includes eyewitness accounts, injuries sustained by the victims of the attacks and media reports from Ukraine, the Russian general said.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ridiculed Israel's ground invasion of Gaza, accusing the Israeli government of "barbarism that surpasses Hitler."

Speaking at a political re-election rally in the Turkish city of Ordu, Turkey's prime minister said that Israel has "surpassed what Hitler did to them" and declared the country a "terrorist state."

"[Israelis] have no conscience, no honor, no pride. Those who condemn Hitler day and night have surpassed Hitler in barbarism," said Erdoğan. He accused Israel of rejecting ceasefires that Hamas has proposed and "spitting death, spitting blood."

Erdogan reiterated his opposition to Israel's operations in the Gaza Strip and said that the Israel Defense Forces have had a "disproportionate" effect and will end any positive relations between Israel and Turkey. Despite the climbing death toll of Palestinians - with nearly 800 killed during the most recent Israeli offensive in Gaza - Erdogan said that the Turkish people should not take out their frustrations on Turkey's own Jewish community.

"I don't approve of any [bad] attitude towards our Jewish citizens in Turkey, despite all this," Erdogan told supporters. "Why? They are citizens of this country."

At least 45 mortar shells fired at targets located inside the Rostov-on-Don region have been unleashed by Ukraine's army, Russia's border officials said. The barrage destroyed multiple houses and forced an evacuation of civilians.

Investigators say they were examining the site of a previous shelling near the Primiusskiy hamlet right on the southwestern edge of Russia on Wednesday, when a cannonade went off from the other side of the border.

"There is no doubt that those shooting from the Ukrainian side picked their target, and tried to kill Russian security officials," said Investigative Committee representative Vladimir Markin.

"It is only the poor training of Ukrainian gunners, and the timely evacuation of Russian officials under the cover of armored vehicles that thwarted their plan."

Six houses in the village were damaged, and one woman received a concussion as a result of a nearby explosion.

"The barrage is continuing from the other side of the border, and its intensity has not decreased," said Vasily Malaev, the regional border service spokesman.

"The propagandists who actually decide the content of mainstream news have done a bang-up job on Monsanto. They've made it seem that the science for and against GMO crops is a swamp of uncertainty no one can decipher. Therefore, leave it alone. Don't step into it. This omits one stunning circumstance: exactly how GMO crops were permitted into the US food supply in the first place." (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

Perhaps you remember the Just-Label-It campaign. A number of activist groups petitioned the FDA for a federal regulation that would make labeling GMO food mandatory all across America.

The petition amassed over a million signatures. But the FDA decided only 394 of these were legitimate, because all the others were electronically submitted in one document.

Infuriating? Of course. But that was nothing.

Decree on a partial military draft, which Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko signed on Wednesday, signals an agony of the Kiev regime and its inability to resolve the problems of its own homeland in a civilized manner, Russian experts said Thursday when ITAR-TASS asked them for their reactions latest developments in Ukraine.

Ukrainian media carry evidence of the great pains, which accompanied the endorsement of a third phase of reservists' call-up for joining the so-called 'antiterrorist operation'.

"President Petro Poroshenko was outraged by the fact the voting in parliament took place on the verge of a critically low number of votes," writes the Ukrainian publication Segodnya.ua.

"The whole country is at war and 210 people's deputies believe this war doesn't concern them," it quoted him.

The authorities do not reveal any figures on how many reservists will be called up. "The case in hand may be tens of thousands of men within 45 days," says Nedelya.ua portal, adding that, more than that, the Verkhovna Rada has revised the upper age for the individuals liable for drafting to 60 years from the previous 50.

Government officials in the United States said Thursday that Russia is firing artillery across the border into Ukrainian territory, but refused to provide any evidence when grilled by an Associated Press reporter.

Matthew Lee, a veteran AP journalist known for his frequent showdowns with spokespeople during US State Department briefings, raised questions about the latest claims during Thursday's scheduled press conference.

"We have new evidence that the Russians intend to deliver heavier and more powerful rocket launchers to the separatist forces in Ukraine, and have evidence that Russia is firing artillery from within Russia to attack Ukrainian military positions," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters during the Thursday afternoon briefing.

When asked by Lee for any evidence, however, Harf said the State Dept. is unwilling at this time to disclose further details because doing so could expose the secret intelligence operations involved in making such claims.

"I would like to know what you're basing this new evidence that the Russians intend to send any heavier equipment," Lee asked.

The details, Harf responded, are "based on some intelligence information."

"I can't get into the sources and methods behind it," Harf insisted to Lee's chagrin. "I can't tell you what the information is based on," she said at one point during the back-and-forth.

When MH370 vanished into thin air on March 8th this year, an international search-and-rescue party scanned two of the world's oceans, pored over satellite images and radar readings, and consulted automated communication relays between parts of the plane and their manufacturers that monitor aircraft system performance in real-time. Despite these multiple layers of hi-tech monitoring systems, there is still no trace of the missing Boeing 777-200ER. Or so we've been told. All 239 passengers and crew are officially reported as missing, presumed dead. Planes have literally disappeared in the past, but none with so many people onboard.

As if that weren't extraordinary enough, here we are 4 months later and a second Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200ER and its passengers and crew have been 'taken out', although this time in a more easily discernible manner. There is as yet no direct connection between the two events, although only the most ardent scientific materialist could claim complete indifference to the fact that they're the same type of aircraft used by the same airline company, as well as the numerological synchronicity of a Boeing-777 with flight number MH17 crashing on 07/17/2014, exactly 17 years to the day since its maiden flight on 07/17/1997.

The first event seemed to be random and caught the world's media completely by surprise. But the second occurred at 'ground zero' of the 'new cold war' we find ourselves in. Shouting the loudest about the crash of MH17 is, as usual, the US government. From the get-go, it 'knew' exactly how it happened, and exactly who to blame for the deaths of 298 innocent people: the "Russian-backed terrorists" in eastern Ukraine had "shot MH17 down with an SA (surface-to-air) series missile shot from a BUK missile-launcher near where the plane came down in terrorist-controlled territory." The 'evidence' to support their claims, however, is non-existent, unless you count "social media" and the US brand of "common sense" as evidence.

Jon Snow has been speaking to youngsters in Gaza City about their lives and how they're coping with living in a war zone. And he also talks to Dr Mads Gilbert - a Norwegian doctor working at al Shifa hospital - who is treating some of the children.

Warning: this report does contain distressing images of injured children.

Maps of attack on Crimea by jointed forces of Ukrainians, Majilis and foreign NATO fleet are being actively propagated on Ukrainian Facebook.

The operation will be named: "Oksamitovy season 2014." - following the idea of authors of this scenario.

The second part of the plan depicts attack on the Russian mainland itself - both from "soon to become again" Ukrainian Crimea on Kuban, and from Donetsk and Lugansk on the neighboring Russian territories.

The second stage of the operation the authors call "Reconquest" and predict it for 2015.