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Since November he has been in what is known as administrative detention, which allows people to be held without charge for six-month intervals that can be renewed indefinitely. He refused food to draw attention to his prolonged detention in an Israeli jail without charge or trial.

Hospitalized and shackled, Palestinian Mohammed Allan was 60 days into a hunger strike to protest his detention without charge in an Israeli jail when he slipped into unconsciousness Friday.

“It became clear seven people, including four players were not on the list and therefore, the entire mission can’t leave Gaza without them”, said Ala Shammaly of the Shejaia media office.

Israel says Allan is being held for his activities with the Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group that has carried out numerous violent attacks against civilians.

Some Palestinians feel the law is intended to weaken negotiating powers of prisoners who frequently use hunger strikes to protest administrative detention – a provision which authorizes Israeli authorities to detain inmates for six months and is often extended to prolong...

Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza strip have staged a rally in solidarity with a hunger striking Palestinian prisoner whose condition is critical.

Under the worldwide agreement reached last month, Russia, China and European Union countries will lift their sanctions on Iran as Iran accepts curbs and inspections on its nuclear program.

Chuck Schumer scrambling to abandon the president, is whether an Obama veto will hold. He and his Israeli counterparts believe communities like these would be at greater risk if the Iran deal passed and Iran had more capital to fund terrorism in the region, including Hamas. An...

A Palestinian detainee in the ninth week of his hunger strike fell unconscious at an Israeli hospital on Friday in a case that could test Israel’s new force-feeding law.

“If we turn around and nix the deal and then tell them, ‘You’re going to have to obey our rules and sanctions anyway, ‘ that is a recipe, very quickly … for the American dollar to cease to be the reserve currency of the world“, Kerry said at a...

Kerry also warned that the U.S. could lose its military standing in the world should Congress reject the deal and insist its allies concede to U.S. sanctions on Iran.

“Overstating the case for the agreement belies the gravity of the issue and does more to breed distrust than win support“, the former New York mayor, now reinstalled at the helm of his media empire, said August. 11 in a Bloomberg column. First, Iran is unlikely to...

Before it was cut off, the water supplied some 4,000 people in the West Bank.

The Gaza Strip, with which Israel fought a devastating 50-day war last summer, and the West Bank are only 60 kilometres (40 miles) apart but separated by politics and Israeli territory. It remains unclear why the family members were at the site at the time of the blast.

Caruso reported from New York.