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Israel’s Operation Protective Edge entered its 14th day on Monday, as the Palestinian death toll due to the Israeli assault reached 548 at the time of writing. Meanwhile, global efforts to bring peace to the region gathered pace as the United Nations and Washington demanded an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza. Sunday’s lethal violence had seen the death of 140 Palestinians, …

(Gaza) – Israeli air attacks in Gaza investigated by Human Rights Watch have been targeting apparent civilian structures and killing civilians in violation of the laws of war. Israel should end unlawful attacks that do not target military objectives and may be intended as collective punishment or broadly to destroy civilian property. Deliberate or reckless attacks violating the laws of …

Islamic State (IS) extremists have killed 115 Syrian fighters of the Syrian regime, security guards and employees of the gas field they seized in the Homs province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. The monitor described Thursday’s hostile takeover of the Shaar gas field as the IS’ “biggest” anti-regime operation since it got involved in the Syrian …

Israel pressed a large-scale ground offensive on Friday, as its assault on Gaza entered its 11th day. At the time of writing, the death toll of Palestinians stood at 271, according to numbers given out by medical officials. An Israeli soldier was killed when the offensive started, raising the death toll of Israelis to two, the Israeli army said. Three …

On Tuesday, two Palestinians were killed by air strikes after an Egyptian truce bid failed to stop the week-long Israeli campaign in Gaza, raising the death toll to 194. Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the Emergency services, said that a 77-year-man was killed in the city of Khan Yunis and a 24-year-old man was killed in the district of Zeitoun in …

Stephen Hawking had in May 2013 boycotted conference hosted by Israeli President Shimon Peres, protesting the treatment of Palestinians by Israel. He had made it clear that he would have criticized Israeli policies towards Palestinians if he had gone. The full letter read, “I accepted the invitation to the Presidential Conference with the intention that this would not only allow …

Israel’s air assault on Gaza entered its ninth day on Wednesday, with a total of 220 people killed and 1,550 injured by the attacks so far. The latest Israeli strikes caused the deaths of four children in Gaza City, medics said. The four of them were on the beach when the shelling struck, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. Several …

On Tuesday, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency described the damage caused by the Israeli air campaign on Gaza as “immense” and said that over 500 homes were razed in the past week. “The level of human losses and destruction in Gaza is really immense. According to our latest figure, we are talking about 174 killed and well over …

US Secretary for State John Kerry is headed to the Middle East on Tuesday to try and bring a diplomatic end to the devastating conflict between Israel and Hamas. The punishing Israeli air campaign has taken the lives of 177 Palestinians so far, and shows no sign of stopping. Most Arab nations have demanded an immediate end to the campaign, …

Article and photos by Mohammed Omer in Gaza July 9, 2014: I am writing this as ambulance and rescue crews continue to search for bodies. Among the ones they have uncovered so far are those of 4-year-old Mohammed Nawasra, whose body was found underneath the ruins of his home in the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, his …