Word: shelterer
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...resolved. Ideally, in a war shaped by television images, Israelis would like a tableau of surrender: grimy Hamas commanders crawling from underground bunkers with their hands up. Instead, the deaths of several civilians, killed outside a United Nations-run school north of Gaza City where they had taken shelter, are likely to become the dominant image of the war. Israeli politicians and generals know that the total elimination of Hamas' entrenched military command could take weeks; it might be altogether impossible. The more realistic outcome is an unsatisfactory, brokered truce that leaves Hamas wounded but alive and able to regenerate...
...Before Israeli bombs fell outside the school, some 400 Palestinians fleeing shelling of the Jabalya refugee camp had taken shelter inside Fakhura, hoping that the U.N. flag would shield them from harm, according to survivors. Earlier, the U.N., which oversees relief efforts for more than 800,000 Palestinians in Gaza, had passed along the coordinates of all its schools and buildings to the Israeli military so that its humanitarian missions would be spared attack...
...enormous. It is also a testament to the continued fragility of the country Washington seeks to build an alliance with. The structure is heavily fortified. From the outside, it resembles an austere, sand-colored fortress. From the inner courtyard, small symmetrical windows are covered by heavy screens that shelter the buildings from incoming rockets and mortars. One U.S. soldier said it reminded her of a maximum-security prison. "If my parents could see this, they wouldn't be so worried," said another...
...Obamas choose a cute shelter puppy for themselves. The overwhelming feel-good factor of the occasion keeps this country going for months...
Shiri Java hopes not. Last year, the Mauritanian man found work in Jaén, but 2008 is different. At 8 a.m. he has joined the line at the shelter waiting for breakfast. Balancing the piece of cardboard he uses for a bed under his arm, he takes a sweet roll and plastic cup of milky coffee. "I can't go back; there's no work in my town," Java says. "I came here to work. If I lose this season, I'm finished...