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The Quartet was originally set up to persuade a recalcitrant Israel to allow the United Nations to have a role in the peace process. It was also an oblique American token recognition of Russia’s vestigial Great Power status, which allowed it a squeaky wheel in the peace process, if not an actual hand on the helm. Comprising the European Union, …

The United States has blamed Hamas for the failure of the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel on Friday, and accused it of launching a “barbaric” attack to apprehend an Israeli soldier. “This is an outrageous action and we look to the rest of the world to join us in condemning it”, Tony Blinken, House Deputy National Security Adviser, said in …

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 Thursday, Israel promised to keep its soldiers in Gaza and completely destroy network of tunnels connecting Gaza and Israel, as the death toll in the Palestinian enclave hit 1,435. At an Israeli cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he was not ready to accept a ceasefire which didn’t allow for soldiers to continue destroying …

On Thursday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s Prime Minister, launched a strong verbal attack on Israel, and accused it of showing “Hitler-like fascism” against Palestinians in its offensive in Gaza. The Turkish premier, speaking at a rally in Turkey during his Presidential campaign, said that he we willing to part with an award given to him by the American Jewish Congress …

Several Spanish filmmakers, actors, writers and musicians, led by Pedro Almodovar, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz have denounced the Israeli aggression in Gaza, and have signed an open letter which they describe Israel’s actions as “genocide”. They also urged the EU to “condemn the bombing by land, sea and air against the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip”. In …

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, 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. …

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 …