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Latin American nations have vehemently denounced the Israeli aggression in Gaza, and several of them have taken actions to that effect, including recalling ambassadors and offering support to Palestine. Eco Morales, President of Bolivia and one of the far-left leaders from Latin America, put deemed Israel as a “terrorist” nation and removed its visa waiver program with Israel. Brazil’s President …

Israel has ended its three-day truce with Hamas on Friday only hours after it had begun, saying that it fears an Israeli soldier was captured in Gaza. The peace ended when intense shelling struck southern Gaza, killing several dozens of people in the process. Hamas had accused Israel of ending the truce, while Israel has said that it was responding …

On Friday, a fierce battle between extremist group Islamic State (IS) and federal forces caused the deaths of seventeen Iraqi soldiers, while bombing in and around Baghdad killed 16 others. The clashes in the town of Jurf al-Sakhr, a settlement situated alongside the Euphrates River and a road that links Sunni militant strongholds to Shi’ite holy sites to the south …

The Iraqi army raided several insurgent targets on Monday in the town of Jurf al-Sakhr, some 60 kilometers to the southwest of Baghdad, on Monday, killing 17 people, including 3 civilians, during the raids. According to local tribal sources, the raid targeted that Fadhiyya district at 01:00 a.m. local time, and a child and two women were among those killed …

US President Barack Obama’s call for an “immediate, unconditional” humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza has strained Israeli-US ties and put Israeli Prime Minister in a spot of bother among hardliners in his government. According to analysts, Obama’s call for a ceasefire on Sunday was seen as an ultimatum to Netanyahu, as the death toll due to the Israeli violence in Gaza …

On Monday, several thousands of Palestinians gathered at that Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem to pray and stand in support of Gaza as the Muslim holiday of Eid ul-Fitr began. Police reports suggest that over 45,000 people were at the mosque, with many dressed in black T-shirts with “Gaza, supporting you is our Eid” and “We are all Gaza” written …

Rock star Peter Gabriel, from the band Genesis, and filmmaker Ken Loach, director of films like Cathy Come Home, The Navigators, Riff-Raff, The Wind That Shakes the Barley and Kes, and 34,000 others are all signatories in an open letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron demanding an immediate interruption of trade between Israel and the UK. The letter was …

Security forces in Israel were on high alert on Friday after many Palestinians were shot and killed during a massive protest in West Bank against Israel’s military assault on Gaza. According to security and medical sources, five Palestinians were killed on Friday in West Bank in two different incidents involving Israeli settlers and Israeli troops. Three Palestinian men participating in …

On Friday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said the a ceasefire deal for the conflict in Gaza has not been reached yet as he and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged for a week-long halt to the violence which has already caused the death of 848 Palestinians in 18 days . At a joint conference with Ban in Cairo, …

The ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza has flooded the internet with often disturbing images of Palestinian victims of Israeli attacks. Although such pictures succeed in shocking you, they fundamentally can’t evoke empathy. Humanize Palestine “attempts to restore the humanity that is often stripped away when Palestinians are reduced to calculative deaths, forgettable names, and burned and mutilated bodies, rather than …