Israeli fighter jets have hit targets in the northern Gaza Strip after a dozen rockets were fired towards southern Israel, the Israeli military says. Thursday's developments effectively ended a tacit truce respected by both sides since March 8, and came a day after the deaths of several Palestinian fighters at the hands of Israeli forces. Despite the fact, that on Wednseday the former PM Ismail Haniya called for an end to Israeli military operations in Gaza and the re-opening of its borders in return for halting rocket attacks.

Last Friday's front page story in the Daily Express, for example, "Scandal of Britain's Romanian gangsters" must have appeared to its editors to have ticked all the right boxes. Horrid immigrants holding child slaves, including a one year old baby used as a "prop", to steal from British families are busted by the police.

‘Cultural sensitivity needs to be set aside’. MPACUK welcomes the investigation into forced marriages by the Home Affairs select committee. We wish to stress however, that forced marriages are completely against the teachings of Islam. They occur in Asian communities and are a cultural and not a religious practise.

From the Friends of Al-Aqsa - Supporters of the state of Israel are planning its 60th Birthday celebrations around the world. The Palestinians are also marking this day as the 60th anniversary of the Nakba the catastrophe that cost them their homeland and made them refugees for 6 decades. The brutal occupation continues and every day, Palestinians continue to be killed by the Israeli army who shows little consideration for life and property.

An estimated 18% of London’s Muslims, approximately 60,000 people are not registered to vote, even though they should eligible to vote. Some London mosques have recognised this problem and are trying to address it through an election awareness and voter registration drive in the run up to the London Mayoral elections on May 1st.