Sixteen people were injured in a bomb explosion at a metro train in Cairo Thursday as gunmen killed five Egyptian soldiers and policemen in two separate attacks in northern Sinai.
Gaza will take 20 years and $6 billion to rebuild, report says The war-torn Gaza strip has been assessed and estimates say the damage from seven weeks of attacks will take 20 years and about $6 billion to rebuild, Al-Jazeera reports.
Palestine announced it would accept a 72-hour cease-fire Sunday in order to allow peace talks to progress with Israel, who refused to attend the talks if violence continued.
Maduro has promised to build an orphanage for Palestinian children and will ask permission from the Palestinian state to find Venezuelan foster parents for some children.
Bardem and Cruz are joined by a group of Spanish celebrities in decrying Israel's action. Celebrities have mostly chosen to remain quiet on the conflict in the Gaza Strip, but Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz have decided to speak out.
At the start of a temporary cease-fire, the death toll in the Gaza Strip reached over 900 Palestinians and three dozen Israelis who have been killed after almost three weeks of brutal fighting and bloodshed.
After two weeks of fighting in the Gaza Strip, Israeli military forces have killed over 500 Palestinians with airstrikes and artillery, while tens of thousands of Palestinians have been displaced.
Just a day after Egypt's cease-fire proposal between Israel and Hamas fell apart, Israel launched an intense attack on the Gaza strip, targeting the homes of high-ranking Hamas leaders.
