The Palestinian Authority is bidding for “non-member state” recognition by the United Nations. Will it succeed after last year’s failed push for full recognition? And what are the likely consequences?
International flights to Damascus are grounded as fighting intensifies in the Syrian capital.
An investigation is underway to see if the former Palestinian president was poisoned by a lethal dose of radioactive Polonium 210.
Alex Thomson
Normality is returning to Gaza after the ceasefire agreed with Israel. But across the strip, there is profound suspicion and scepticism as to whether the “peace” can last.
Alex Thomson
A bombs goes off on a bus in Tel Aviv. Moments later from the minarets of mosques across the city megaphones praise God as news of the bomb spreads.
Alex Thomson
Publishing its own statistics, the Euro-Mid Observer for Human Rights calls for the UN Commissioner and EU countries to take a clear stand against the “ongoing Israeli breaches of the international law in Gaza”.
Alex Thomson
Some 90 Palestinians have died so far in the Gaza offensive. Alex Thomson observes emotional scenes outside a mortuary as the bodies of four children killed in an airstrike are received by their family.
Israeli Defence Forces spokesman Gilad Sharon accuses Gaza of choosing “the terror way” – but Nermine Mohamed Hassan warns of a humanitarian crisis because of “extreme aggressive attacks” by Israel.
With the death toll in the conflict with Israel topping 100, Gaza residents are left to bury their dead. Meanwhile, ceasefire talks unfold to the background of a threatened Israeli offensive.
Relations with Iran may sometimes determine the direction of Israel’s foreign policy, but the Gaza conflict is unlikely to be a dry run for an Israeli attack on its Middle Eastern rival.
Alex Thomson
A man with two small girls, aged five at most, runs sweating from a burning building into a waiting friend’s car. When we ask him what happened he just says: “Ask Israel.”
The foreign secretary says Israel risks losing sympathy from the international community if it launches an invasion of the Palestinian territory with ground troops.
Netanyahu says Israel is ready to widen military operations after rockets and gunboats bombarded Gaza targets on Sunday, killing 11 people in an apartment building in a bloody day of conflict.
Israeli destroys Prime Minister Ismail Haniya’s headquarters as the country launches 200 airstrikes at targets in Gaza.
An Israeli peace activist claims the assassination of Hamas’s military leader took place as the Islamist group was considering a wider ceasefire.