Oslo - Norwegian police used teargas Monday evening to disperse protesters who broke through barricades outside the Israeli embassy in Oslo.
Several hundred people had earlier assembled near parliament to protest against Israel's air strikes in the Gaza Strip.
The protesters then continued to the embassy where youths threw stones and fired fireworks at police cordons and the embassy building, broadcaster TV2 reported.
Police responded with teargas. There were no immediate reports of any injuries.
New York - The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations called on the Security Council on Monday to take "practical steps" to stop the fighting in the Gaza Strip to avert a potential Israeli invasion.
Riyad Mansour and Egypt's UN Ambassadpr Maged Abdelaziz met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council president, Neven Jurica, the envoy from Croatia, urging them to proceed with demanding an immediate ceasefire from Israel.
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged Israel and Hamas to declare an immediate ceasefire and for the world community to do more to assist victims of the three-day-old conflict.
Ban reiterated his condemnation of the fighting by the two sides, warning of the "frightening nature" of the crisis because of its affect on civilians in the Gaza Strip, half of whom are children.
He called for the observance of humanitarian law in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Warsaw - Some 100 people protested outside the Israeli embassy in Warsaw on Monday, calling for an end to "killing civilians" after three days of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.
"What's happening in Gaza now is not a war against Hamas, it's a genocide against a people who've been kept imprisoned for the past two years," said a Palestinian protester who declined to give his name. "They're bombing mosques. They're bombing hospitals. Is this democracy?"
Tel Aviv - Unlike the 2006 war with Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, Israel did not accompany the start of its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip with grandiose statements which could later come back to haunt it.
Instead of promising to destroy Hamas, Israeli officials talk about limiting the Islamist organization's ability to shower southern Israel with rockets and mortars, as it did in the week leading up to the Israeli assault.
Washington - The White House called on Hamas to halt rocket attacks into Israel and agree to a lasting ceasefire as the conflict in the Gaza Strip escalated on Monday.
"In order for the violence to stop, Hamas must stop firing rockets into Israel and agree to accept a sustainable and durable ceasefire," Gordon Johndroe, the spokesman for the National Security Council, said in Crawford, Texas, where President George W Bush was vacationing.
Oslo - Norwegian police used teargas Monday evening to disperse protesters who broke through barricades outside the Israeli embassy in Oslo. 
New York - The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations called on the Security Council on Monday to take "practical steps" to stop the fighting in the Gaza Strip to avert a potential Israeli invasion. 
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged Israel and Hamas to declare an immediate ceasefire and for the world community to do more to assist victims of the three-day-old conflict. 
Warsaw - Some 100 people protested outside the Israeli embassy in Warsaw on Monday, calling for an end to "killing civilians" after three days of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. 
Tel Aviv - Unlike the 2006 war with Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, Israel did not accompany the start of its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip with grandiose statements which could later come back to haunt it. 
Washington - The White House called on Hamas to halt rocket attacks into Israel and agree to a lasting ceasefire as the conflict in the Gaza Strip escalated on Monday. 
