The Turkish group IHH said on Monday it would send a new flotilla of ships to “break Israel's siege of Gaza”, four years after the deadly storming of its vessel by Israeli commandos, according to AFP. IHH, which organized the first flotilla, said in a statement quoted by the news agency that activists from
Islamic Jihad second-in-command Ziad Nahala was quoted on Friday in the Palestinian Authority (PA) Al-Hayat Al-Jadida saying that the war with Israel is "behind us," the same day that a Security Cabinet meeting was to be held in Jerusalem. Nahala said "we have no choice but to reach a truce agreement. That stands at
A staggering amount of so-called "civilian casualties" in Gaza were probably Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists, the New York Times admits for the first time this week, challenging the routine acceptance of casualty figures provided by the Hamas-run health ministry. The report critically examines the data from the Palestinian Health Ministry, the official data
Israel was once again criticized on Sunday for an attack on a United Nations school in Gaza, which the United States said was “disgraceful”. According to the AFP news agency, in one of the most strongly-worded statements yet from Washington since the conflict began nearly a month ago, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said
A radical anti-Israel march through New York's "Diamond District" in central Manhattan - an area known for its large concentration of Jewish businesses - ended in abject failure late last month, after anti-Zionist demonstrators were drowned out by locals who responded with overwhelming support for Israel. A few dozen anti-Israel protesters, including the usual
Police in Miami, Florida are searching for two suspects after a 60-year-old rabbi from Brooklyn, New York, was shot while making his way to a local synagogue on Saturday morning. According to the Miami Herald, the victim, Rabbi Joseph Raksin, was confronted by two young men while walking down a street around 9:00 a.m.
Senior Palestinian Authority officials have accused US Secretary of State John Kerry of favoring Hamas, according to a report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), insisting that Kerry had presented his own proposal to cater to Hamas-backed Qatar and Turkey. Speaking anonymously, a senior Palestinian official told the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq
Hamas has urged Hezbollah to join the fight against Israel, according to multiple sources, after Israel's self-defense operation against the terror organization in Gaza has expanded further. “We hope the Lebanese front will open and together we will fight against this formation [Israel],” deputy head of Hamas’ political bureau Mousa Abu Marzouk told Russian
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) announced on Tuesday that another rocket stockpile has been found at one of its schools in Gaza, Breitbart reported. This instance marks the third time since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge that a weapons arsenal has been found at an UNRWA school in Gaza.
In a rare audio message, the head of Hamas’s “military wing” declared on Tuesday that the only way to reach a ceasefire in Gaza is for Israel to end its “siege” on the coastal territory. The message by Mohammed Deif, head of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, was broadcast on Hamas’s television network, and
