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On Thursday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay slammed what she referred to as Israel’s “deliberate defiance” of international law during its current aggression in Gaza. Pillay also lambasted Israel’s attacks on hospitals, schools, homes and UN facilities sheltering over 250,000 civilians in Gaza. “There appears to be deliberate defiance of obligations that international law imposes …

On Wednesday, the United States confirmed that it had restocked Israel’s ammunition supplies, only hours after it issued a strong condemnation of an Israeli strike on an UN-run school in Gaza. According to the Pentagon, On July 20th, the Israeli military had put forth a request for additional ammunition so that it could restock its diminishing supplies. Three days later, …

On Wednesday, Bolivia declared that Israel is a “terrorist state” and revoke an agreement it had with Israel regarding a visa exemption in protest of Israel’s ongoing aggression in the Gaza Strip. The visa exemption agreement between Israel and Bolivia was signed in 1972 and allows Israelis to visit Bolivia without a visa. The move was announced by President Evo …

On Wednesday, at least 17 people in a packed Gaza market were killed by Israeli warplanes in a deadly raid which ended a four-hour humanitarian ceasefire, as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon  labeled an Israel strike on a school in Gaza that killed 16 as “unjustifiable”. A crowded market in the neighborhood of Shejaiya was fired upon by Israeli warplanes. …

British band Massive Attack dedicated Tuesday’s performance in the Lebanese city of Byblos, their only concert in the Middle East, to the children in Gaza, and openly condemned Israel’s “massacre” of Palestinians. The band played in the city, only a few hundred kilometers to the north of Gaza, as music-lovers swayed all night holding up Palestinian flags. In an interview …

The Swiss Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said that it was in talks to hold an international conference that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had wanted to discuss the protection of civilians in Gaza. “Switzerland has begun consultations with state parties to the Geneva Conventions, following an official Palestinian request that a conference be held by the end of the year”, the …

On Wednesday, advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) called out the Syrian air force for intensifying its air strikes on Aleppo despite a UN resolution for all parties involved to stop indiscriminate attacks. The rights group also criticized the UN Security Council for their inaction on the violence in Syria. In a statement issued before a UN hearing, HRW said, …

Late on Tuesday, suicide bombers invaded two mosques in the state of Yobe in Nigeria, killing six people and injuring many others, witnesses said. The attack has been blamed on Boko Haram, although the terrorist group has not yet claimed responsibility for it. The first explosion hit an open air Shi’ite mosque in the Dogo Tebo region in the town …

The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing, on Tuesday said that a potential truce deal with Israel must incorporate an end to Israeli “aggression” and lift the blockade of Gaza, as the Palestinian death toll from 22 days of Israeli strikes rose to 1,210. “We don’t accept any condition of ceasefire. There is no ceasefire without the stop of the …

A fuel depot near Tripoli airport continued to burn for the third consecutive day on Tuesday while a paramilitary warplane crashed in the city of Benghazi during clashes with militants. General Sagr al-Jerouchi, chief of air operations for rebel ex-general Khalifa Haftar, said that it is not immediately clear if the fighter jet suffered a malfunction or was hit by …