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An Israeli defense official said the people killed in Friday’s air strike were Palestinian militants from the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad.

The Israeli regime’s air force carried out a drone strike in southern Syria on Friday, killing five people, while a soldier was killed and seven wounded in an air raid overnight, Syrian state TV reported.

Iran’s atomic energy agency has dismissed a media report that Iranian experts, instead of the worldwide Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) staff, will inspect the country’s nuclear sites.

The Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended the detention of a critically ill Palestinian inmate whose two-month hunger strike has placed a harsh spotlight on Israel’s legal system.

Doctors say he has suffered brain damage and will remain in hospital but that his shackles will be taken off and his relatives can visit him. He woke up Tuesday, but by Wednesday Dr. Chezy Levy in Barzilai said Allan was speaking incoherently and “not connecting with his...

We also staunchly agree that Mr. Obama, as the leader of this nation, should retract the unfortunate comment made that those opposing the deal are “making common cause” with Iran’s hard-line leaders.

Around 340 Palestinians are now held in administrative detention, according to Israeli authorities, and detainees have regularly gone on hunger strike to protest.

Over half of the respondents in a CBS News poll released earlier this month said negotiators could have secured a deal more favorable to the U.S. Fifty-three percent said the agreement will be not very effective or not at all effective in preventing Iran from developing a nuclear...

US State Department spokesman John Kirby said that until the concerns about Iran’s past activities are “adequately addressed by the IAEA, there can be no sanctions relief“.

A number of other Palestinian prisoners have also resorted to hunger strikes – a practice the United Nations has labeled “a fundamental human right” – to protest their indefinite detention.

The Lawyer of hunger-striking prisoner Mohammad Allan, said that the Israeli Military Prosecutor on Wednesday offered that Allan be released on November third, in exchange with suspending his hunger strike until then.

Palestinian detainee Shireen Issawi, held by Israel without trial for alleged involvement with terrorist groups, launched a hunger strike Monday in solidarity with a prisoner who’s protested by going without food for over two months.

In his speech at the Seton Hall School of Diplomacy and worldwide Relations, Menendez committed not only to voting against the deal when the Senate returns next month, but also to voting to override a presidential veto.

Israel sees his hunger strike, which began more than 60 days ago, as a powerful challenge against “administrative detention”, a practice that has drawn criticism from Palestinians and human rights groups but which Israel calls a security necessity.

Israel’s High Court began a hearing on Wednesday afternoon on whether to release him due to his health.