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Gaza death toll reaches 41 in day two of Israeli assault

Israeli war jets bombed 160 targets in the Gaza Strip overnight, the military said Wednesday, including a hospital and homes, as the casualty toll in the ongoing assault climbed to 41 deaths and over 370 injuries. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meanwhile threatened to escalate attacks on the besieged strip. ...

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Death toll from Israeli air raids on Gaza rises to 35

The number of Palestinians killed in the ongoing Israeli air attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip has risen to at least 35 people. Latest reports say at least seven Palestinians, most of them women and children, were killed in the latest attacks on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 35 ...

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Fresh Israeli airstrikes kill 14, injure 80 in Gaza

At least 14 Palestinians, including two children, have been killed and 80 others injured in a fresh spate of air attacks by the Israeli regime on the besieged Gaza Strip. This comes as the Israeli army carried out more than forty air strikes on the blockaded enclave on Tuesday. The ...

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Autopsy reveals Palestinian teen burned alive

Initial autopsy findings from the charred body of a Palestinian teenager from East Jerusalem who was kidnapped and killed by suspected Israeli settlers showed that he was burned alive, the Palestinian attorney-general is reported as saying. “The direct cause of death was burns as a result of fire and its ...

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Israel detained 3,000 Palestinian children since 2010

Israeli forces arrested nearly 3,000 Palestinian children from the beginning of 2010 to mid-2014, the majority of them between the ages of 12 and 15 years old, Addustour newspaper published a new report saying yesterday. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN)’s report documented dozens of video recorded testimonies of children arrested ...

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The searing hypocrisy of the West

The bodies of three Israeli settlers who went missing on June 12th were found in a hastily dug shallow grave in Halhul, north of Hebron. Since the teens went missing from Gush Etzion, a Jewish-only colony in the West Bank, Israel has besieged the 4 million Palestinians who already live ...

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Italy tells citizens not to invest in illegal Israeli settlements

Italy has advised its citizens not to invest in Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian land, just days after France issued the same warning, Italian media reported Friday. Foreign Minister Federico Mogherini cautioned Italians “not to get involved in financial activity and investments” in settlements in the occupied West Bank, ...

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