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US Democrats in the Senate have included $225 million for Israel’s Iron Dome missile system in a bill amid Tel Aviv’s attacks against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee Senator Barbara Mikulski said the Democrats wanted the budget in an emergency funding bill on Tuesday, …

A British lawmaker says he would fire rockets into Israel if he lived in the besieged Gaza Strip, which has faced a deadly Israeli offensive for over two weeks. “The big question is – if I lived in Gaza would I fire a rocket? – probably yes,” Liberal Democrat member …

It may seem a bit odd to say this now with the Palestinian suffering at its peak, but it is becoming increasingly clear that Israel has lost this war, writes Ibrahim Khan. Here are ten key reasons why: 1. Israel has never had international public support – but this time they’ve …

A London estate agent who was arrested for putting up a Palestinian flag on his premises has been released on bail. Police were called to the offices of the Muslim male, who prefers to remain unnamed for now, after a single passer-by complained about the flag on which the businessman …

Only yesterday we reported on protests against the War on Gaza that had flooded the streets of Jerusalem with thousands of protesters. Jews and Muslims marched side-by-side in support of civilians in Gaza, and yet the vast majority of the corporate, mainstream media completely ignored this story. Later yesterday, Neo-Fascist Kahanist members …

Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah is to deliver a speech next Friday during the commemoration of Al-Quds International Day. Meanwhile, Hezbollah called for a ceremony commemorating the occasion on Friday at 5:00 p.m. in Sayyed Shuhadaa Complex in Beirut’s southern suburb (Dahiyeh). Al-Quds Day, which falls on the last …

The Israeli military is using flechette shells, which spray out thousands of tiny and potentially lethal metal darts, in its military operation in Gaza. Six flechette shells were fired towards the village of Khuzaa, east of Khan Younis, on 17 July, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. Nahla …

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has said that a group of its fighters has infiltrated southern lands of the occupied territories from a tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip. The operation was in retaliation for the “massacre” in the al-Shujaiyya neighborhood of Gaza City on Sunday, Hamas said on Monday. …

Egyptian soldiers in north Sinai prevented an aid convoy of activists from reaching the Rafah border crossing with the embattled Palestinian Gaza Strip on Saturday, an AFP correspondent said. An army officer at the Balloza checkpoint, one of many along the desert highway to Rafah, told an AFP correspondent that …

Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement, announced on Sunday they had abducted an Israeli soldier in Gaza. “The Israeli soldier Shaul Aaron is in the hands of the Qassam Brigades,” a spokesman using the nom-de-guerre Abu Obeida said in a televised address, as he announced …