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On 26 August a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was agreed, bringing a fragile end to a war that killed 2150 Palestinians (mostly civilians) and 73 Israelis (mostly soldiers). Since then Hamas has not fired a single rocket, attacked an Israeli target, or done anything to break the terms of the...

That's precious coming from those who call themselves the "Chosen People" and who grant themselves land ownership, and take it from others, based on that concept alone.

A Pakistani family was allegedly attacked by a violent former Marine during an afternoon stroll to the park — at least the second anti-Muslim hate crime in Brooklyn in as many weeks, the Daily News has learned. Shabana Chaudhry, 29, who’s nine months pregnant, was walking to a playground with...

Bump, because the thread was retained in moderation (for no reason whatsoever). Can one of the moderators teach how to preclude that from happening again? There never has been a problem with my threads; all that retaining in moderation does is reduce their page views.

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- An Israeli warship opened fire Sunday morning at Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Gaza City's Al-Shati refugee camp, the speaker of the Union of Gaza Fishermen said. Nizar Ayyash told Ma'an that Israeli gunboats "have been firing at fishermen every day since the...

Young relatives of four children killed by Israeli shelling while playing football on a beach in July play their game that was violently cut short, 7 September. On Sunday evening, as the sun slipped behind the Mediterranean Sea, members of the Bakr family, a sprawling clan of fishermen in Gaza...

JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli police beat and detained a 10-year-old Palestinian child as well as two young men during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Friday, locals told Ma'an. Clashes broke out Friday afternoon in the neighborhood just south of Jerusalem's Old City...

I did not read the entire article - I did an CTRL+F on the words "building", "civilian" and "sex", and had no results. So I'm going to assume Hasbaretz is failing to give details on the more damaging of the agents' revelations. The Guardian's article is very superior - it gives more of an idea...

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- An 11-year-old boy died on Thursday after being critically injured during Israel's military offensive on the besieged coastal enclave. Yousif Muhammad Jmeiat al-Shalafa was pronounced dead at the European Hospital in Khan Younis after suffering from severe head wounds...

A Palestinian prisoner has died in Israeli custody after being found hanged. Palestinians denied it was suicide and blame Israeli authorities A Palestinian prisoner, arrested by Israel in July, died Tuesday after what the Israel Prison Authority said was a suicide attempt, a claim denied by...

This is exactly what Israel did, though. Israeli general says of the population of Gaza: "....I think it is also a partner [of Hamas]. I don’t exonerate them of responsibility so quickly... in many cases the terrorists are the children or relatives of the people who live there. In almost every...

The civilian population in Gaza is “a partner of terror” that “gets what they choose,” the top commander of the Israeli army’s Givati Brigade told the Israeli press recently, after orchestrating some of the deadliest episodes of butchery visited upon the Gaza Strip this summer. [I.e., he's...

An Orthodox Jewish man who spoke out against Israel’s bombing of Gaza has fled his home after it was vandalised twice and he was assaulted. Downstairs windows at the property in Curzon Road, Higher Broughton, Salford, were smashed, eggs thrown at the property and graffiti daubed on the door and...

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Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children claimed that Israel has violated the international law in Gaza In a Un Security Council discussion, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children claimed that Israel has violated the international law when attacking...

I'm upping this because the thread got tangled up in moderation for hours (for no reason whatsoever) and was pushed down as a result.

Israeli Border Police detained two Palestinian boys aged seven and 12 in the West Bank city of Hebron Monday morning on suspicion of throwing stones. Before school on Monday, a group of Palestinian youths allegedly threw stones at an Israeli Border Police checkpoint in Hebron. According to...

Jpost: Army Radio: US mistakenly led Israel to believe that Hamas accepted an unconditional 72-hour cease-fire when in fact the Palestinian Islamist group never consented to key Israeli demand. It appears that a serious diplomatic miscommunication between Israel and the United States may have...

JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian teenager from Jerusalem who was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier with a rubber-coated steel bullet a week ago succumbed to his wounds Sunday morning, his father said. Abd al-Majid Sunuqrut told Ma'an that his son Muhammad Abd Al-Majid Sunuqrut, 16, "died...

As clashes and riots break out over the death of another Palestinian teen shot by Israel police, authorities order the family of Muhammed Abu Khdeir, who was burned alive this summer, to dismantle their memorial. Israel Police on Sunday threatened to destroy a memorial for murdered...