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It is out of step with the continent’s values, many bishops say, and threatens to derail expansion in the church’s fastest growing region in the world.

A military spokesman said it would use other strategies to destroy Hamas’s networks in southern and central Gaza.

A Jewish refugee from the Nazis, he argued that World War I, World War II and the Holocaust were all part of a “second Thirty Years’ War.”

At the University of Haifa, more than 40 percent of students are Arab, some with family in Gaza, and many others have now been called up as soldiers.

The survivor, who was in her 90s, was dug out from under a collapsed house, injured but responsive.

Ukrainian officials said missile assaults had struck private houses, trapping residents under the rubble, and that the dead included five children.

Israel said it had fired back at militants involved in the rocket launches, but the exchange stopped short of a major escalation.

Critics say that hard-won progress toward democracy in Indonesia has been backsliding under Joko Widodo, a two-term president who was once a political outsider.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to roll to a fourth consecutive term as the gutted opposition boycotts what it calls an unfair election.

The American-provided air-defense systems have helped Ukraine defend itself against Russian assaults, but Washington has warned that it will not be able to keep them supplied for much longer.