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Israel attacks Gaza Strip following raid on Al-Aqsa mosque

Israel launched air strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, after rockets were fired from the Palestinian enclave in the wake of the Israeli assault on Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli forces brutally assaulted dozens of Palestinian worshippers inside Al-Aqsa on Tuesday night and forcibly removed them from the site where they were peacefully[…]

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Israel carries out air strikes on Gaza Strip

The Israeli Army yesterday bombed a site belonging to the Hamas Movement in the Gaza Strip with no casualties reported, Times of Israel reports. The Israel Defence Forces claimed it launched air raids where Hamas stores chemicals used for missiles, including a facility that manufactures weaponry. “The strike deals a serious blow[…]

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New report identifies several ‘double-tap’ air strikes by Syrian and allied forces

INTERNATIONAL A new investigative report published on Thursday has identified nearly a dozen instances where it says the Syrian government and allied forces engaged in “double-tap” air strikes to target hospitals and “intentionally harm persons and objects protected by international humanitarian law”. The report, published by the Washington-based Syria Justice and Accountability Centre,[…]

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Deadly Gaza violence on eve of Ramadan

Six Palestinians, including a 14-month-old baby girl and her eight-month pregnant mother were killed on Saturday as Israel bombarded Gaza and factions in the coastal enclave fired hundreds of rockets over the boundary in return. Overnight a 58-year-old Israeli man was killed when a rocket hit a residential building in[…]

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Heaviest air strikes yet strike Yemeni capital

Dozens of air strikes hit the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Thursday, in what residents described as the heaviest aerial attacks there in nine months of war, days after a Saudi-led coalition trying to restore a Saudi-backed government ended a fragile ceasefire. The strikes pounded the presidential palace and a mountain[…]

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UK MPs debate air strikes in Syria

The British parliament has begun to debate a motion authorising the use of military force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Syria. The discussion comes amid divisions over the planned intervention within Prime Minister David Cameron’s own Conservative Party and the opposition Labour Party.[…]

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