AP – An Israeli-Arab lawmaker said Tuesday she told U.N. investigators probing Israel’s deadly raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip that its commandos were on a mission to kill.
A UN inquiry team started hearings Monday with Jordanian activists about the fatal May 31 Israeli attack on a Turkish ship that was part of a flotilla trying to break an Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
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AFP – Israel’s top military judge said on Thursday the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip is legal, in testimony before an inquiry into a deadly May 31 raid on an activist ship seeking to break it, media reported.
AFP – The Gaza Strip’s sole power plant resumed generating on Wednesday after the territory’s Hamas rulers reached agreement on fuel payments to the rival Palestinian Authority, both sides said.
A UN report says the Israeli army has increasingly restricted Palestinian access to farmland in the Gaza Strip and fishing zones along its shore.
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Egyptian security forces said Wednesday they discovered 17 tunnels used to smuggle construction materials into the Gaza strip, security sources said.
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AP – The ship seized by Israel in a deadly raid as it carried aid to the Gaza Strip in May returned to Turkey on Saturday. A pro-Palestinian activist said it would send more aid ships unless Israel lifts its Gaza blockade.
Reuters – Israeli shellfire killed a Palestinian militant and wounded another in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Palestinian medical officials said.
Reuters – An explosion in the house of a Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip has wounded 24 people, a Hamas official and medical workers in the Palestinian territory said on Monday.
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Reuters – An explosion in the house of a Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip has wounded 15 people, Hamas and medical workers in the Palestinian territory said Monday.
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