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The military leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas,
Ahmed Jabari, has been assassinated in an Israeli air strike in
Gaza. The United Nations Security Council held an emergency
meeting on Wednesday night (14th November) to discuss the
onslaught and heard a plea from the Palestinian UN observer to
stop “war crimes being perpetrated by Israel against the
Palestinian people”. The Israeli ambassador replied that the
strikes were launched after days of rocket fire out of Gaza and
Israel had a right to defend itself. The assassination of Ahmed
al-Jabari in a missile strike in Gaza City was the “start of a
broader operation”, according to the Israel Defence Forces
(IDF), which it named Operation Pillar of Defense. Since the
start of this Operation at the 14th November, a total of 1,500
rockets have been fired at southern Israel, about half of which
were recorded as hits in Israeli territory. The Iron Dome anti-
missile defense system has intercept