Gaza Blockade

PHOTOS Dozens of activists braved extremely cold weather in New York City on Saturday to stage a protest in front of the Egyptian Consulate demanding that Egypt open the...

Images An Indonesian non-governmental organisation has collected nearly $15 million from Indonesia's poor and rich alike to build the first Indonesian hospital in the Gaza Strip. The hospital, which...

During an official visit to Serbia on Monday, 12th July, the Turkish Prime Minister reaffirmed that his country will continue its pursuit of an apology and compensation for the...

Turkey's Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has stated that the apology made by Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, over Israel's attack on the...

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that he is planning to visit the Gaza Strip "soon". The Turkish Anatolia news agency reported that Erdogan hasn't announced...

Turkey's prime minister has confirmed that he plans to visit the besieged Gaza Strip next month. Recep Tayyip Erdogan made the announcement during a video link with a joint...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pointed out that Israel has not fulfilled the promise made when it offered a formal apology to his country for the 2010 attack on the...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is to launch a primary investigation into Israel's murderous attack on the humanitarian Freedom Flotilla in May 2010. The convoy of ships was in...

Egypt's President Morsi might join Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his visit to the Gaza Strip later this month. The claim has been made by Turkish writer...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS Finland's Minister for International Cooperation and Development visited the besieged Gaza Strip on Wednesday; Heidi Hautala took the opportunity to criticise the Israeli siege imposed since 2006....

Turkey's Foreign Minister has said that his country is "the protector" of the Palestinian cause and heritage and his people won't stop until they can pray in a "free...

The Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Filippo Grandi, has warned that "the plight of Palestinians and Palestinian refugees under Israeli occupation...

A United Nations official said on Thursday that Turkey has agreed to fund fuel purchases that will be used to provide power for emergency services in the Gaza Strip,...

In 2007, Israel strengthened its occupation of Palestine by placing the Gaza Strip under a siege, restricting the movement of people and goods in and out of the enclave....

In March 2012, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) published unprecedentedly harsh concluding observations following Israel's periodic review. In what one expert called "the...

In December 2000, the first Herzliya Conference took place, a now annual event and regular fixture in the diaries of politicians, military officials and defense industry figures from Israel...

When the borders of Gaza were sealed by Israel in June 2007 the population faced a situation that was, inevitably, going to deteriorate on every level very quickly. A...

I have a number of questions regarding the current events in Egypt. The most notable of which are as follows: On July 23, Al-Ahram newspaper published a headline noting...

It is important for analysts to be absolutely accurate in their deliberations and data if they are to retain any credibility. Likewise, it is important for the analysis itself...

Ever since the beginning of Egypt's incitement campaign against Hamas and the Palestinians in Gaza, including the attempts to disfigure the image of the Palestinian resistance in Egyptian media,...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban On August 29, 2010, Martin Indyk wrote an op-ed in The New York Times entitled "For once, hope in the Middle East".  When I read...

The wave of liberation revolutions sweeping the Arab world has shown the world that the Arabs are alive and deserve freedom and prepared to fight and die for it....

I was struck by the huge difference between the response to my article "No Room for Western Hypocrisy" in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper and the response of Western readers to...

Under normal circumstances, when one country apologises to another it usually passes without comment. When the country doing the apologising is Israel people sit up and take notice. Israel...

The campaign to remove Hamas from government in Gaza has started: a "rebellion" movement has been announced; journalists have been invited to meet its "secret" leader; and Fatah's Azzam...

When our friend made a statement calling for the Rafah crossing to be opened to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, he was faced with accusations of slander in...

Israel announced on Sunday that it has discovered a tunnel under its border with the Gaza Strip. The end of the tunnel is about 300m inside occupied Palestine. Israeli...

Israel imposed a stifling blockade on the Gaza Strip after the success of the Islamic Resistance Movement in the 2006 Palestinian elections; its grip was tightened in the summer...

The level of absurdity in Egypt currently knows no limitations, and it is for this reason alone that I will mention only one particular absurdity that caught my attention....

As Israel's heavily publicised humanitarian mission in the Philippines commenced, the IDF has been constantly updating its achievements in the ravaged land through a twitter account which briefly utilised...

We have monitored Israeli media for a number of weeks and listened to the opinions of military leaders who considered the tranquillity on the borders of the Gaza Strip...

Joining the army is not optional for Israeli teenagers. At the age of 18, Israeli men face three years of mandatory service in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF); in...