Wael Arafat, 28, is currently unable to walk but remains conscious and talking. The British-Palestinian has lost nearly 20kg since starting a hunger strike 50 days ago. He is demanding the UK government act to stop Israel's two-month-long bombardment of the Gaza Strip. "I know I might...

Six civilians were killed and 25 others wounded on Saturday in Syrian army bombardment of the country's last major rebel bastion, a war monitor said. "Regime forces directly targeted residential areas of the city of Idlib," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, adding that industrial...

Israeli military killed 43 Palestinians using US-made munitions in two documented air strikes in the blockaded Gaza Strip, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday. “A new investigation by Amnesty International has found US-made Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) were used by...

More than 30 Palestinians were killed on Monday by Israeli air strikes in the east of Gaza, the Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reported. Israeli warplanes targeted homes in the Al-Zaytoun and Al-Shujaiya neighbourhoods of Gaza with several families believed to have been targeted.  MEE