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London, Sep. 9 (ANI): A startling new report has revealed that 252 children were killed during Israel’s war on Gaza early this year.

The Israeli official figures seriously underestimated the civilian Palestinian death toll, and said that just 59 children [...]

London, Aug.19 (ANI): A report prepared by the Commons Committee on Arms Export Controls has revealed that British weapons may have been used against Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka, and now, this is prompting calls for a review of the arms trade.

According to The Times, the committee has argued that all existing licenses to Sri [...]

Washington, July 28 (ANI): Seven North Carolina men were arrested and charged on Monday with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists overseas.

It is unclear whether the group is connected to Al Qaeda or some other overseas radical group. No such group is identified in the 14-page indictment that was unsealed on Monday.

According to the [...]

Luxembourg – The European Union faced an embarrassing split on Monday over the question of whether or not to upgrade the bloc’s relationship with Israel, as officials from the bloc’s political leadership and executive traded accusations. The row pits the EU’s foreign affairs commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, against the current head of the council of EU [...]

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah said on Friday the Egyptian authorities had arrested a member of the group who was offering logistical help to Palestinians in Gaza, but denied allegations that it was planning attacks in Egypt.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the Hezbollah member, Sami Chehab, had been working “to move military equipment and members [...]

GAZA (Reuters) – Egyptian mediators trying to break the deadlock in talks on a Palestinian government of national unity have told rival groups Fatah and Hamas to cooperate on reconstructing Gaza as a first step, officials said.
Palestinian groups have been talking in Cairo for months but have so far failed to agree on a unity [...]

Jerusalem – Israel repeatedly fired white phosphorus shells over densely populated areas of Gaza during its offensive there in late December to mid January, a human rights group charged Wednesday.
The firing “was indiscriminate and is evidence of war crimes,” Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its 71-page report.
The organization said that after the offensive [...]

New York – The United Nations on Wednesday expressed concern about the lack of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and the increasing violence two months after Israel declared a unilateral end to hostilities.
UN Undersecretary General for Political Affairs B Lynn Pascoe said the Middle East is faced with a “worrying situation of impasse and [...]

London – Outspoken British anti-war member of parliament (MP) George Galloway Friday denounced as “outrageous” a decision by the Canadian authorities to refuse him entry on the grounds of national security.
Galloway, a former Labour politician who has now set up his own political party, said in London that he would not accept the ban [...]

Tel Aviv (Israel), Mar.21 (ANI): After repeatedly rebuffing charges of having committed war crimes in its recent war against Hamas in Gaza, a stunned Israel has changed track and instructed its military prosecutor to launch a criminal investigation into the alleged deliberate killing of [...]

Tel Aviv – Israel plans to increase its pressure on Hamas after indirect negotiations broke down on a prisoners exchange with the radical Islamist movement ruling Gaza, Israeli media reported Wednesday.
Outgoing Premier Ehud Olmert has formed a ministerial committee which will look into how Israel can legally worsen the conditions in which Hamas prisoners are [...]

Gaza – The Palestinian Hamas movement on Tuesday blamed Israel for the failure of negotiations for a possible prisoner swap deal and threatened to abduct more Israeli soldiers.
“Israel is the one that hindered Shalit’s deal,” Hamas said in a statement Tuesday night as Israel announced the failure of negotiations for a deal that would [...]

Tel Aviv – The Jewish-Arab duo picked to represent Israel at May’s Eurovision Song Contest said on Tuesday they wanted to see a peaceful settlement between Israelis and Palestinians.
“We want our cooperation to show the way forward,” the pair said at a press conference in Tel Aviv, ahead of the contest in Moscow. “This is [...]

Jerusalem, Mar. 17 (ANI): Two-thirds of Israelis believe that Operation Cast Lead against Hamas terrorists in Gaza finished too early, A latest poll has revealed.

According to the Truman-PSR poll, only thirty percent of Israelis back reoccupying Gaza in the case of continued rocket-fire on the South Israel, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Only 48 percent Israelis [...]

Washington, Mar 5 (ANI): Secretary of State Hillary Clinton encountered an unusual question during an interview on the popular youth television show “Ali Soutik” during a visit to the West Bank on March 4.

The interviewer read the question, which said, “What would you do if your daughter, Chelsea, were unfortunate enough to be born under [...]

Jerusalem, Mar 5 (ANI): Senior Islamic jihad commander Khaled Shalan was killed on Wednesday night in an Israeli Air Force missile strike on his car in Gaza. nother member of the terror group was critically hurt in the attack on the vehicle that was traveling from Jabalya to Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza.

According to [...]

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt), Mar.2 (ANI): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hopes to sideline the Hamas by proposing an aid package of over 900 million dollars for moderate Palestinians.

According to Politico, out of this 900 million dollars, only 300 million dollars will be earmarked to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza.

According to State Department spokesman [...]

Leading Hamas member Mahmoud Zahar said on Tuesday some Palestinian officials, backed by the United States, were obstructing the dialogue due to open between Palestinian groups in Cairo on Wednesday.
“There are people who want this dialogue not to take place because they will lose their positions and their privileges,” he told Reuters in an interview [...]

Jerusalem, Feb. 25 (ANI): The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is systematically providing political cover to Hamas, a senior government official said, while lashing out at the agency for passing a Hamas letter to US Senator John Kerry during his last week’s visit to Gaza.

On Thursday, UNRWA head Karen AbuZayd gave the letter to [...]

Al Qaeda’s second-in-command urged Palestinians in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip not to succumb to Arab pressure for a truce with Israel and vowed to support fighting against the Jewish state.
The militant leader, in a recording posted on the Internet on Monday, also called on Muslims in Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia to press ahead with fighting [...]