The dangerous cost of Israel's siege on Gaza
There was a time when you could swim anywhere off Gaza’s coast. Not now. Not in the aftermath of war.
Over 50 people were killed – several of them children – and many hundreds injured, as Palestinian protesters were met with live rounds fired by Israeli troops.
Nadia Hijab is co-founder and president the Palestinian think-tank Al-Shabaka.
Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Danny Danon, discusses the Gaza protests.
The anger and consequent bloodshed in Gaza was in response to events in Jerusalem.
Tensions on the Gaza-Israel border are high ahead of a planned major demonstration next week to mark what Palestinians refer to as “the Nakba” or “catastrophe” – a reference to Israel’s establishment in 1948 and what happened to the Palestinians who lived on that land. Today, Gaza health officials said one Palestinian has been killed…
Hundreds of people have been to the funeral of a prominent Palestinian journalist who was killed while covering mass protests along the Israeli border. He was one of ten people who died during yesterday’s actions, as Israeli troops opened fire on crowds they claimed were trying to storm the border fence. From Jerusalem, our Foreign…
Two Israeli extremists were today convicted of burning alive a Palestinian teenager – revenge for the murder of three Israelis. The deaths led to a chain of events culminating in the 50-day Gaza War.
Mark Regev, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman, is expected to become his country’s next ambassador to the UK, according to widespread reports.
There was a time when you could swim anywhere off Gaza’s coast. Not now. Not in the aftermath of war.
A UN report criticises Israel and Palestinian armed groups, saying both could be guilty of carrying out war crimes during last year’s Gaza conflict.
With its report into last summer’s Gaza conflict expected shortly, Israel repeats its claim that the UN inquiry into whether war crimes were committed in there is a “kangaroo court”.
Today Israel has exonerated its military from any criminal charges relating to the action. It says they were playing in a “compound” clearly identified…
Palestine’s football association drops its motion asking for Israel, which it accuses of racism and preventing the free movement of Palestinian athletes, to be suspended from Fifa.
Hamas committed war crimes against Palestinian civilians in Gaza during the 2014 war with Israel, according to Amnesty International.
Israeli soldiers fired indiscriminately at Palestinian civilians during the 2014 Gaza conflict, according to a report based on the testimony of dozens of IDF veterans involved in the operation.