Hamas's spokesperson in Gaza Sami Abu-Zuhri has denied the reports that a ceasefire agreement had been agreed between Israel and the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, telling Agence...
In a UK parliamentary debate yesterday, Conservative MP, Robert Halfon, posited the "Jordan solution" as an answer to the question of a Palestinian state. The debate, titled the Middle...
Speaking this morning as Israeli forces continue a new ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu described the IDF as "a moral army like no other"....
French Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve banned pro-Palestinian demonstrations, scheduled in Paris tomorrow, to be banned citing the violence that erupted between them and pro-Israeli demonstrators last week....
Turkish Parliamentary Speaker Cemil Cicek strongly condemned on Friday Israel's ground operation in the Gaza Strip, which was launched late Thursday evening, saying it is totally unacceptable, Anadolu news...
There has been a 40 per cent reduction in trade in Israeli cities since Israel began its military operation in Gaza, Israel's Channel Two said today. Since July 7,...
Dozens of Palestinians, including children, suffered from suffocation on Thursday due to inhaling what is being described as a "strange toxic gas" launched by the Israeli army during its...

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July 18, 2014 |
David Hearst So now we know. The Egyptian ceasefire initiative was neither an initiative in the sense that anyone had consulted one of the combatants. Nor was it Egyptian. According to...
President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz met on Thursday in Brussels with Nikos Anastasiades, the president of the southern part of the island of Cyprus, and reiterated the...
The Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas, this morning announced that they had struck the southern Israeli city of Dimona with two M75 rockets. The...
The Israeli army announced thwarting an attempt by 13 Hamas fighters to infiltrate Israel via an underground tunnel from GAza The Ezzeddin al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas,...
This week, Lebanon's border with Israel has seen escalating unrest agitated by the current aggression against Gaza. On Tuesday, Israel unleashed an artillery salvo on the outskirts of villages...

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July 17, 2014 |
Jessica Purkiss The Palestinian American teenager whose savage beating by Israeli soldiers was caught on camera returned home to the United States on Wednesday. Fifteen year old Tariq Abu Khdeir had...
Former Second Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Hassan Khreisheh said the Egyptian ceasefire initiative with its present terms aims "to save the Israeli occupation of its predicament...
Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, yesterday penetrated the messaging system of the Benjamin settlement council near Ramallah, in central West Bank, and sent threatening message to the...
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced Thursday that some 20 rockets had been discovered hidden in a vacant school...
The Chairman of the Committee on Foreign, Political and National Security Affairs of the Arab Parliament, Muslim Ben Ali Maashni yesterday demanded Israeli leaders be prosecuted before the International...
July 17, 2014 |
Ramona Wadi Following a recent perfunctory visit to Gaza, UNRWA Commissioner General Pierre Krähenbühl issued a statement detailing the horrific statistics of Israel's atrocities in the enclave. Embellished with the usual...
Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces prevented on Wednesday several Palestinian marches from reaching Israeli checkpoints in the occupied West Bank, Anadolu news agency reported. " security services stopped a...
Turkey's IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation has delivered €250,000 worth of medical aid to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza in the framework of its "Be the Remedy for Gaza" campaign. In...
A temporary UN-brokered ceasefire has been in place over the Gaza Strip today, Thursday. The agreement was for all military operations to stop between 0700 and 1200 GMT. A...
Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu-Zuhri said in a press conference on Wednesday that his movement would not accept any ceasefire without meeting its conditions, Anadolu news agency reported. Abu-Zuhri also...

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July 17, 2014 Seumas Milne
For the third time in five years, the world's fourth largest military power has launched a full-scale armed onslaught on one of its most deprived and overcrowded territories. Since...
A Palestinian informed source revealed on Thursday that Hamas has introduced five ceasefire conditions, Felesteen Online reported. The informed source, whose condition was to remain anonymous, reportedly told Anadolu...
The blatant aggression against the Gaza Strip we are witnessing affects anyone who has a heart, as Israel's destruction and barbarism are unprecedented and worse than any I have...

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July 17, 2014 Taher Al-Adwan
Since Israel began its latest brutal aggression against the people of Gaza, a number of articles in the Arab media have included statements blaming the Palestinians for resisting the...
A UK-based human rights group has called upon the British and other European governments to put an end to the activities of Zionist organisations which recruit volunteers to work...
Responding to a UN call, a Hamas official said that his movement had accepted a five-hour long humanitarian truce on Thursday starting at 10 am Gaza local time. The...
Former Israeli intelligence chief Efraim Halevy called for negotiations with Hamas, even though it is "inconvenient politically" for both sides to admit this. His remarks came during an interview...
July 17, 2014 Amith Gupta and Yeou-Shiuh Hsu
As the Israeli bombardment of Gaza continues, international solidarity with the people of Gaza has only grown, with protests, vigils, and the like happening all around the world. But...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Qatari Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani discussed a draft ceasefire initiative that would be proposed as an alternative to the Egyptian one,...
Tony Blair played a pivotal role in drafting the so-called Egyptian Ceasefire Initiative in a bid to hinder a Qatari truce initiative, Arabi 21reported. According to informed sources quoted...