Israel to Block Latest Gaza Aid Flotilla

Israel’s security cabinet has ordered the country’s military to prevent a planned flotilla from reaching the Gaza Strip but to avoid clashes with activists on board.

Jury Out on Egypt’s Promise to Open Rafah

Egypt’s new leadership has promised to open the Rafah crossing into Gaza permanently after more than five years of partial and occasionally full closure, but observers wonder how far this will go to ease the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories...

Israel And Hamas Both Looking to End Attacks

Israel and Hamas have signaled that they are looking to end a flare-up of violence across the Gaza-Israel border.  Nineteen Palestinian militants and civilians have been killed and several Israelis wounded since Thursday.

Israel Agrees to Ease Blockade of Gaza

Israel has agreed to ease the blockade of Gaza and pledged to take steps towards policy relaxation as soon as possible due to an increasing international pressure to end the blockade after Israeli commandos stormed the Gaza aid flotilla last month. The...

ISRAEL-OPT: Flotilla Aid to Enter Gaza Under UN Supervision

After intense diplomatic negotiation with Israel, the UN has agreed to oversee the transfer of 70 truck-loads of humanitarian aid that Israel seized from a flotilla of six ships on May 31.

Moroccans Stage Protest Against Israeli Attack on Aid Flotilla

Thousands of Moroccans, took to the streets of Rabat on Sunday to condemn the attack launched on Tuesday, in international waters, by Israel against a flotilla of aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip. Leaders of political parties, representatives of trade...

Israel has Made One of the Most Glaring Mistakes in Its History, Says Turkish President

Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Thursday that Turkey will never forgive Israel for the killing of Turkish citizens on a Gaza-bound humanitarian convoy by Israeli special forces. “Relations between Turkey and Israel will never be as they were...

Turkey to Press for United Nations Commission to Probe Israeli Attack on Aid Flotilla

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said that his country would begin talks with the United Nations on establishing an international commission to probe Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla aid convoy.

Israel Confesses to Interception of Aid Ships in Neutral Waters

“It happened in international waters, we confirm this,” an Israeli Army spokesman told RIA Novosti, adding: “We did it there because we did not know what was happening on the ships and suspected there were explosives and other weapons...