Islam and antisemitism

A mobile game that simulates Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and invites users to "drop bombs and avoid killing civilians" has been pulled from Google Inc's app store, a company spokesman said on Monday after a public backlash.
   

“Imagine if someone would launch an attack on the Athens airport, on Acropolis, on ancient Agora, with 2,500 missiles, within three weeks. It is unbelievable. Imagine that Turkey launches an attack tomorrow, you will have to defend yourselves and protect yourselves.”

Qatar’s latest investment in Israeli-Palestinian football comes against a backdrop of a war of words between the two countries over the Gulf state’s close relationship with Hamas, the Islamist militia that controls the war-wracked Gaza Strip Qatar is emerging for the second time in a decade as the only Arab state without a peace treaty and diplomatic relations to have invested in Isr

Turkish and Qatar continue efforts for a lasting cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, as the death toll in Gaza exceeds 1,700 as of Aug. 3.

A Hamas team arrived in Cairo on Aug. 3 for talks with Egyptian mediators on a possible truce in Gaza, an airport official and state news agency MENA said.

Around 100 Kosovars gathered on Friday in Pristina’s main Ibrahim Rugova square to protest against Israel’s iron-fisted military tactics against Hamas militants in Gaza.

Fuad Ramiqi, the organizer of the rally, said that the people of Kosovo “have a moral obligation” to condemn what is happening in Gaza “where children, women, and elderly people are being killed.

Israeli shelling killed eight people in Gaza on Aug. 1 just hours into a three-day truce, medics said, as a diplomatic push for a more durable end to the bloodshed gained pace.

The skies over Gaza initially fell silent after the humanitarian truce came into effect at at 8 a.m. (0500 GMT), the latest and longest of several agreed since the conflict broke out on July 8.

You can see why Hamas doesn’t want a cease-fire in Gaza yet. It is continuing the fight in the hope that international outrage at the huge loss of people being killed by Israel’s massive firepower will somehow, eventually, force Israel to give it what it wants.

UN blames Israel, Israel blames militants

Gaza -- The Israeli military has carried out a deadly attack on Wednesday morning against a UN school in the Gaza Strip.

This came despite warnings that the structure provided shelter for 3,000 refugees, UN officials say.

Hamas have authorized the Palestinian National Authority to negotiate on behalf of the group, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said, underlining the presence of a growing relationship between Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Mashaal.