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  • Hamas: Gaza war an end to peace bid

    Hamas has said that the Gaza war has put an end to chances of negotiations with Israel, calling on Arabs to pressure Tel Aviv to cease its attacks on the Gaza Strip. In a televised speech on Saturday, Khaled Meshaal, the exiled-Hamas political leader, said Israel's offensive on Gaza, which has killed more than 850 Palestinians, had failed because Hamas.. More

  • Israel 'using white phosphorus'

    Human Rights Watch has called on Israel to stop using white phosphorus which it says has been used in military operations in the densely populated Gaza Strip. The US-based group said that its researchers observed the use of the chemical, which can burn away human flesh to the bone, over Gaza City and Jabalya on Friday and Saturday. "We went.. More

  • US seeks to send tons of arms to Israel, ignores 820 Gazans killed

    The U.S. is seeking to hire a merchant ship to deliver hundreds of tons of arms to Israel from Greece later this month, tender documents seen by Reuters show. Israel launched on December 27 a military offensive in Gaza, killing at least 820 Palestinians, a third children. The U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) said the ship was to carry.. More

  • US congress votes to back Israel

    The US House of Representatives has voted to endorse a resolution backing Israel in its offensive in Gaza, in which at least 820 Palestinians have been killed. The body passed Friday's resolution "recognizing Israel's right to defend itself against attacks from Gaza" by 390 votes to five. The measure also noted that the humanitarian.. More

  • Dozens dead in Pakistan shanty fire

    At least 38 people have died after a fire tore through a shanty town in the Pakistani city of Karachi. The fire broke out just before midnight on Thursday and quickly spread through the poor neighborhood of shacks and huts, sending thick black smoke into the night sky. Most of the dead are reported to be women and children. Firefighters took.. More

  • Global protests condemn Gaza war

    More than 50,000 Egyptian have protested in the city of Alexandria against Israel's assault on Gaza, one of many held across the world as the conflict enters its 14th consecutive day. Demonstrators in Egypt, led by parliamentarians allied to the opposition Muslim Brotherhood, chanted slogans condemning the war and the failure of Arab nations to tackle.. More

  • UN call fails to stop Gaza bombing

    A series of explosions has rocked the Gaza Strip despite the UN Security Council passing a resolution calling for an "immediate ceasefire" there. Al Jazeera's Zeina Awad, reporting from the Israel-Gaza border, said air raids, tank shelling and gunfire had continued in the early hours of Friday, moments after the resolution had passed. About.. More

  • Wounded Gazans left to die as Israel fires UN aid convoy

    Aid agency says Israeli blocked them from entering the bombed areas to evacuate the wounded as a violations of international humanitarian law as UN convoy came under fire from Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. At least one Palestinian has been killed after a UN relief agency convoy came under fire from Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, reports said. The.. More

  • Thousand of Afghans sign up to fight Israeli troops in Gaza

    More than a thousand Afghans signed up on Thursday to say they wanted to go and fight Israel in the Gaza Strip, many of them blaming the United States which has some 30,000 troops in Afghanistan, for supporting the Jewish state. Scores of young men crowded into the library of Kabul's Milad ul-Nabi mosque to sign up to fight Israel. "More.. More

  • Turkey detains dozens in coup probe

    Police in Turkey have detained three retired generals and dozens of others in raids across the country, as they broadened their investigation into an alleged plot by secularists to overthrow Turkey's government. Secularists accuse the ruling Justice and Development party of seeking to destroy Turkey's secular credentials and turn the country into an.. More

  • Rockets from Lebanon hit Israel

    Several rockets have been fired into northern Israel from neighboring Lebanon, Israeli police say. Micky Rosenfeld, an Israeli police spokesman, said the Katyusha rockets fell around the town of Nahariya, about 8km south of the Lebanese border, early on Thursday. The Israeli military fired mortars into southern Lebanon in response to the missile barrage. A.. More

  • UN: No fighters in targeted school

    The head of the UN agency in Gaza running the school that was attacked by Israel forces has rejected claims that Hamas fighters were inside the converted shelter. The Israeli military accused Hamas of using civilians sheltering inside the building as "human shields" and said its troops had returned fire after fighters fired mortars at their.. More

  • Israel resumes Gaza raid after lull

    Violence has escalated again in Gaza after Israel temporarily halted attacks in Gaza City in the north of the strip for three hours as a "humanitarian respite". In the latest incident, an Israeli air raid on a car in Beit Lahia, near Gaza's northern border with Israel, killed three children and their father, who was described as a civilian.. More

  • Russian gas flow through Ukraine to Europe halted

    Russian gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine shut down completely on Wednesday, leaving growing numbers of European Union member states without Russian fuel in freezing mid-winter temperatures. Supplies to Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Romania were halted by the escalating price dispute between Moscow and Kiev which threatens to disrupt.. More

  • Egypt floats truce plan after Gaza school deaths

    Israel and Hamas studied an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the United States and Europe, hours after Israeli shells killed 43 Palestinians at a U.N. school. However, Israeli officials also said ministers would discuss a major escalation of their 12-day-old offensive that would push troops.. More