The Israeli cabinet will meet later tonight (7 August) to decide whether to increase the scale of her ground operations. This news came as Lebanon witnessed an increasingly bloody day in which fifty five people were killed as a result of Israeli attacks on the Lebanon. As the day’s bombardment drew to an end, Israel had soon enough launched a fresh wave of bombings as night covered southern Beirut killing at least ten people and wounding many others on an attack in a residential area.

In contrast to the 6 days of fighting the armies of Egypt, Jordan and others managed against Israel in 1967, Hizballah afflicted Israel with its greatest number of casualties since the beginning of its war in Lebanon. Today, in day 26 of Hizballah's resistance against American backed Israel, thirteen Israeli soldiers died in a single attack by Hizballah rockets.  The attack occurred in the village of Kfar Giladi close to the Lebanese border. There were further attacks in Haifa causing three deaths.

We would like to invite all readers of the MPACUK website to an exclusive online interview with the Chief Executive of MPACUK. We are giving you the opportunity to ask him whatever questions you want. MPACUK is the UK’s most effective lobby group, responsible for a lare range of media and political successes. MPACUK.org is also the country’s biggest Muslim website and boasts one of the largest Muslim mailing lists.

Channel 4 'What Muslims want' on Monday the 7th of August 8pm. Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions facing our country today: to what extent do Muslims in Britain pose a threat to this country and its values?

Lebanon has rejected a draft UN resolution proposed by the US and France that calls for a "full cessation of hostilities," while Israel said it would keep attacking Hezbollah until an international force arrives to take over in southern Lebanon. Nouhad Mahmoud, a Lebanese foreign ministry official, said on Sunday that the government "would have liked to see our concerns more reflected in the text" of the draft resolution.

Universities must undergo a radical rethink in their attitudes to Muslim women if they are to become fully inclusive and supportive environments, according to joint research from Liverpool John Moores and Bristol universities. David Tyrer of Liverpool John Moores University and Fauzia Ahmad of the University of Bristol conducted 105 interviews with 93 Muslim women aged 19 to 26.

Is it to be like this every day? How many civilians can you make homeless before you start a revolution? And what is next? Are the Israelis to bomb the centre of Beirut? The Corniche? Is this why all the foreign warships came and took their citizens away, to make Beirut safe to destroy?

Nour, a 19-year-old university student, came with two friends to one of Cairo's biggest squares on Thursday night carrying Lebanese and Hizbullah flags. "This is the first time I ever take part in a protest," she said.