Shortly after the expiry, at three pm local time, the five-hour humanitarian truce, Palestinian militias have resumed rocket fire, according to the Israeli press. Israel, meanwhile, has responded by launching a missile in Beit Lahiya, an open area north of the Strip. Nothing or no fatalities. Israeli delegates in Cairo to negotiate a ceasefire with […]
Jul 18 2014 | Posted in
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Israel on Tuesday night continued their bombardment of the Gaza Strip, where authorities reported that the number of Palestinians killed in one week already exceeded 200. Several attacks targeted private homes for at least five Hamas leaders, including the former Foreign Minister of the government of Gaza, Mahmoud Zahar. By Wednesday morning, Palestinians in the […]
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday called the Israeli brutal atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza Strip as genocide asking the world to urgently stop the Israel’s naked aggression. Nawaz Sharif in a statement that these crimes against innocent civilians, women children and elderly, were unparalleled in the recent history of the world. “I am […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said on Tuesday that Hamas has left us no choice but to intensify the military offensive in Gaza after truce plan offered by Egypt did not work out. Almost 200 people had died in Gaza as result of Israeli shelling during the past 8 days whereas one Israeli citizen […]
Israel resumed Tuesday the air offensive against the Gaza Strip six hours after accepting unilaterally the ceasefire proposal presented Monday night by Egypt. The Israeli security cabinet, which met earlier in the day, had voted in favor of accepting the draft that proposes a reduction process of hostilities starting at 9am, which would lead to […]
Israel has intensified during Wednesday night operation Margin Protector on Gaza. The Hebrew army has fired 322 targets – in early on Wednesday were 150 – on the Strip, killing at least three people, bringing to 74 the death toll from the bombing, according to Reuters. Israel claims that Hamas fires on targets, the Palestinian […]
The crisis generated by the murders of young and the escalating war in Gaza generate two essential questions for Palestinian politics: will the unity government hold so much pressure? The agreement between the Palestinian factions on April 23, which caught on June 2 in a Cabinet of technocrats who tries to take control of the […]
Jul 10 2014 | Posted in
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Israel is not only concerned about the number of rockets fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza in two days of operation Margin Protector, but its scope. They have fallen where they had never even done during Operation Defensive Pilar, in November 2012, when Hamas and Islamic Jihad exhibited a hitherto unknown weapons power. The Israeli […]
Jul 10 2014 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday July 9m 2014 said in a statement that Israeli atrocities against innocent Palestinians were unacceptable and violation of all human rights. The Prime Minister reiterated Pakistan’s support to the people of Palestine in their right to have an independent state. Nawaz Sharif said in the statement, “Israeli Government has […]
A rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip has reached Zikron Yaakov, a town 115 miles from the strip. Tel Aviv has also come under attack on Wednesday with at least five M75 rockets, which have been intercepted in the vicinity of the city, according to Army Radio quoted by France Presse. Iron […]
Pakistan supports the international community’s efforts for the cessation of unilateral Israeli aggression on Gaza killing Palestinians including women and children, said Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasneem Aslam in a statement on Wednesday July 9, 2014. The statement said that Pakistan condemns Israeli military offensive. Tasneem Aslam said that loss of lives in Gaza is a […]
The United Nations voted overwhelmingly to recognize a Palestinian state, a long-sought victory for the Palestinians and an embarrassing diplomatic defeat for the United States. The resolution upgrading the Palestinians status to a nonmember observer state at the UN was approved by a vote of 138-9, with 41 abstentions, in the 193-member world body. […]
Nov 30 2012 | Posted in
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