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Red Cross president Jakob Kellenberger says the situatio
With shells reportedly raining down at a rate of 10 per minute at one point in rebellious districts, the Red Cross called for a daily two-hour cease-fire so that it can deliver emergency aid to the wounded and sick. "If they don't die in the shelling, th
Wild animals are creating havoc in a province in the southern African nation of Mozambique. At least 16 people have been killed in animal attacks, Xinhua reported. Authorities in the southern province of Gaza said 12 people were killed by crocodiles in t
Two Qassam rockets were fired from northern Gaza and hit near towns in the Sdot Negev Regional Council. It was not immediately clear if anyone was hurt. Earlier, a rocket exploded in an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council. (Shmulik Hadad)
Ayman al Zawahiri took over from Osama bin Laden as al Qaeda chief 5:44am UK, Wednesday February 15, 2012 Sam Kiley, defence and security editor Iran and al Qaeda's core leadership under Ayman al Zawahiri have established an "operational relationship" am
Massacre: More than 7,000 Syrians have perished in the bloodshed of the recent uprisings, at the hands of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad The horrors of Syria, which Washington so loudly denounces, should not blind us to the fact that American policy in
Here's Soccer Dad's Middle East Media Sampler for Monday, February 13. 1) Russia protects Syria The Washington Post reports Syria needs time for dialogue, Russia says Speaking in Moscow a day after talks with Assad on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lav
Fighting back ... rebels continue their fight against the Assad regime. Photo: AP As the world stands by, Syrians are fighting an increasingly desperate battle, writes Ruth Pollard in Tripoli, Lebanon. The subdued, early morning grey-blue sky is mesmeris
President Obama’s decision to accelerate the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan begs the question: What if the country again becomes a safe haven for terrorists? A recently leaked U.S. Army report for NATO shows that the Taliban believe they are winn
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WASHINGTON, Feb 6, 2012 (IPS) - Following a failed bid to pass a U.N. Security Council Resolution calling for regime change in Syria, Washington is considering other means to influence events on the ground, as the country slips ever closer toward civil w
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei says Iran will stand by and support any nation or group that chooses to stand up to Zionist regime. "We will continue to support any nation or group that fights or confronts the Zionist regim
U.S. officials say Iran is increasingly active in backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's campaign of violence against his own people. As opposition attacks against the Syrian government grow, U.S. officials say Damascus increasingly seeks help from I
A memorial service will be held Thursday for Ella Abukasis, a 17-year-old who was killed in Sderot when Gaza forces shot a rocket into the city. According to one eyewitness, Abukasis was shielding her 10-year-old brother from the rocket attack. The memor
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon met with Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres in Israel on Wednesday. Ban stated, "the rocket fire from Gaza has to stop." He called on "both sides" to take "confidence building measure
The prisoner surrounded by cowardly men covering their faces, looked at the camera and said, "My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish." Today, ten
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Recently-freed Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit (R) is escorted by France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) as he leaves the presidential Elysee palace after a meeting on February 08, 2012 in Paris. Israel released 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the return of Shalit, who was...
View Photo »A member of Hamas' security forces closes the gate of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on January 30, 2011. Two out of eight Hamas prisoners who broke out of a Cairo prison as a wave of anti-government protests swept Egypt arrived back in...
View Photo »An Egyptian soldier climbs a control tower on the border with the southern Gaza Strip as seen from the Palestinian side of Rafah on January 30, 2011. Two out of eight Hamas prisoners who broke out of a Cairo prison as a wave of anti-government protests swept Egypt arrived back in Gaza,...
View Photo »A Palestinian man rides a motorcycle near the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on January 30, 2011. Two out of eight Hamas prisoners who broke out of a Cairo prison as a wave of anti-government protests swept Egypt arrived back in Gaza, an...
View Photo »Former Israeli Justice Yaakov Turkel is seen during the conclusion of the Turkel commission report on January 23, 2011, in Jerusalem, as an Israeli probe ruled that a deadly May 2010 raid on a flotilla of Gaza-bound aid ships, which killed nine Turkish activists and soured ties with Ankara,...
View Photo »Palestinian mourners carry the body of Amjad al-Zaanein 17, during his funeral in Beit Hanun, on the north of the Gaza strip on January 18, 2011. The teenager was killed and two other people were injured as Israeli tanks carried out an operation in northern Gaza Strip.
View Photo »A relative of Palestinian farmer Shaban Karmot, 65, mourns over his body in the morgue of a hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza strip, on January 10, 2011 after he was shot dead by Israeli troops in Beit Hanun, a town which lies about two kilometres (just over a mile) south of the Erez...
View Photo »Palestinians take part in a rally organised by Hamas marking the second anniversary of the Israel-Gaza war in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on January 6, 2011.
View Photo »The bodies of two Palestinian men are seen in the morgue of Kamal Edwan hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on January 6, 2011 after they were shot dead overnight by Israeli soldiers on the border between Israel and Gaza.
View Photo »Head of Hamas administration in Gaza, Ismail Haniya waves as he meets members of the 'Asia 1' aid convoy in his office in Gaza city on 04 January 2011. Some 100 activists With the 'Asia 1' aid convoy crossed to the the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border with Egypt, early on January 3,...
View Photo »Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and Palestinian Hamas premier of Gaza, Ismail Haniya (R) wave to the crowd during the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Azadi (Freedom) Square in southwestern Tehran on February 11, 2012 in which Ahmadinejad said that Iran has broken...
View Photo »Ghazi, son of Palestinian Ali Zarna, inspects damages at his family's home following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on February 19, 2012. Three people were wounded in the strike on Gaza, medical sources said, hours after another strike injured one man.
View Photo »Relatives of Palestinian Ali Zarna inspect damages at his house following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on February 19, 2012. Three people were wounded in the strike on Gaza, medical sources said, hours after another strike injured one man.
View Photo »A Palestinian man inspects damages following Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on February 12, 2012. A Palestinian man died after being wounded in a series of retaliatory Israeli air strikes, Gaza medical sources said.
View Photo »The Hamas prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, speaks to the press as he stands next to chairman of Kuwait's Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), Ali al-Ghanem, following a meeting in Kuwait City on February 8, 2012.
View Photo »Hamas policemen march along a street in Gaza City on July 26, 2011. Gaza's Hamas rulers executed two Palestinians who were sentenced to death by hanging for collaboration with Israel, an interior ministry statement said.
View Photo »Passengers on the US Gaza-bound boat, 'The Audacity of Hope' prepare to set sail from Athens on June 30, 2011 to join the flotilla to Gaza. Passengers on the US boat to Gaza rejected as ludicrous and provocative an unsubstantiated accusation by the Israeli Army that passengers in the...
View Photo »Pro-Palestinian activist showing a board writing "No embargo of Gaza", protests in front of Effel tower in Paris, France, Sunday, July 10, 2011, after part of Pro-Palestinian activist was blocked by police at the Charles de Gaulle airport last Friday. Israel increased security at the...
View Photo »Gazan engineer Dirar Abu Sisi (2nd R) looks at his lawyer (L) during a remand hearing at the district court in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba June 16, 2011. Israel charged the detained Palestinian engineer in April with hundreds of counts of attempted murder, accusing him of...
View Photo »Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh delivers a speech a day after the signing of a reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas, in Gaza City, Thursday, May 5, 2011. Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have signed a landmark reconciliation pact, ending a four-year rift...
View Photo »Members of Hamas' security forces inspect cars in the Gaza border town of Rafah, on April 16, 2011, after a radical Islamist group killed an Italian activist just hours after kidnapping him. The Hamas government said today it has arrested two more suspects in connection with the murder...
View Photo »An Israeli soldier works on his tank near southern Gaza strip border near Kibbutz Kerem Shalom April 9, 2011. Israel killed four Palestinian militants and wounded half a dozen others as it pursued air raids in Gaza for a third day on Saturday, responding to increased rocket fire out of...
View Photo »The sun is seen setting over the northern Gaza strip as seen from the border near Kibbutz Nir Am April 9, 2011. Israel killed four Palestinian militants and wounded half a dozen others as it pursued air raids in Gaza for a third day on Saturday, responding to increased rocket fire out...
View Photo »GAZA BORDER, ISRAEL - APRIL 09: A rocket being launched from Gaza is seen from the Israeli side of the Gaza border on April 9, 2011. Tension is rising along the Israel-Gaza Border as Israel retaliates to rockets fired by Hamas militants with air strikes and shelling, killing at least...
View Photo »An Israeli air force drone is seen flying over Gaza as seen from the northern Gaza strip border April 9, 2011. Israel killed four Palestinian militants and wounded half a dozen others as it pursued air raids in Gaza for a third day on Saturday, responding to increased rocket fire out of...
View Photo »Recently-freed Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit (R) is escorted by France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) as he leaves the presidential Elysee palace after a meeting on February 08, 2012 in Paris. Israel released 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the return of Shalit, who was...
View Photo »I’ll hack Israeli servers and publish their data, I’ll publish credit cards. Imagine every possible cyber attack, I’ll do it. There is no end for it, but if Israeli authorities ask for apologize for their genocide in Palestine and Gaza, I’ll reduce attacks.
their genocide in Palestine and Gaza, I'll reduce the attacks
So this is going to create a dramatic change in Israel's strategic posture, because if we are forced to do things in Gaza or Lebanon under an Iranian nuclear umbrella , it might be different.
I'll hack Israeli servers and publish their data, I'll publish credit cards. Imagine every possible cyber-attack, I'll do it. There is no end for it, but if Israeli authorities apologise for their genocide in Palestine and Gaza, I'll reduce attacks
Gaza is possibly Israel’s most volatile front today
Gaza has changed and the weaponry in Hamas’s and Islamic Jihad’s hands has significantly grown in quantity and quality.
Danny Ayalon should ask for apologize from me for threatening me to death and Israeli authorities should ask for apologize from Gaza people for genocide, they should ask for apologize for Sabra and Shatila massacre. Then we may reduce power of attacks
Hamas in Gaza informed the Fatah leadership after a meeting in Gaza that they can receive President Mahmoud Abbas's house, while keeping security personnel deployed by Hamas outside the house under the pretext of protecting the house as it is personal property
The first example is that Israel massacred over 1,200 innocent, helpless Palestinians in Gaza three years ago ... The second example is that Israel massacred over 1,200 innocent, helpless Lebanese people in 2006. The third example is that Israel was very closely allied with the apartheid state of Africa...
it isn’t enough for the Palestinians to have one state; they ought to have two: one in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, and another in pre-1967 Israel, which would be converted from a Jewish-majority to a Palestinian-majority state by flooding it with some five million descendants of the 1948 ref...
It is not clear how preventing producers in Gaza from selling eggplants, school desks, and oranges to the West Bank enhances Israeli security
those in Gaza who fire rockets at Israel and smuggle weapons
Where was the Arab League when Gaza and before it Lebanon was being bombed to smithereens by the Israeli airforce to the sounds of rapturous American applause?
The great Iranian nation gives the medal of resistance to the brave people of Lebanon, [the Hezbollah] resistance [movement], Gaza and Syria who are on the frontline fighting hegemony
I do hope the novel will also stimulate discussion about some difficult political issues which are relevant to Israel, Lebanon and Gaza today.
24 hours, and there would be no more Beit Hanun [a city in northern Gaza which has been especially hard hit by indiscriminate Israeli artillery fire].
Hamas was ready to pay any price for internal Palestinian reconciliation. The only battle of the Palestinians is against Israel. Our aim is to establish a free and completely sovereign Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza strip, whose capital is Jerusalem, without any settlers and without giving ...
Egypt turmoil may prompt Israel to strike Gaza
against Israel and the Zionist entity.... An economic jihad to help our brethren in Gaza.... Emphasis on support for the path of struggle and for the legitimate jihad in Palestine as the means of its liberation.
He said Israel would get rocket fire from Gaza, and that turned out to be true.
are concerned about the increasing lack of transparency for the PIF as well as reports that Prime Minister Fayyad is no longer overseeing the fund and that Hamas has taken control of PIF assets in Gaza.
The population of Gaza are punished by an unfair closure and deprived of food, medicine, water and electricity, and now Israel wants to escalate this closure. The Palestinian authority is determined to question Israel by heading to Geneva on why it insists to punish innocent civilians
We hope Israel will increase the number of trucks to 14 every day to secure the export of the 600 tons of strawberries Gaza farmers have planted
will be an escalation to the siege on Gaza and a violation to international law ... Israel wants to renew the closure on Gaza's 1.5 million people.
will be an escalation to the siege on Gaza and a violation to international law ... Israel wants to renew the closure on Gaza's 1.5 million people.
