News with and about 'gaza'

There are 25,000 Jews in Iran, which is the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside Israel. Iranian Jews are not persecuted or abused, in fact, they are protected under the Iranian constitution. They are free to practice their religion and to vote in elections. They are not stopped and searched at checkpoints, are not brutalized by an army of occupation and are not confined in a densely populated penal colony (Gaza) where they are deprived of the basic means of subsistence. Iranian Jews live in dignity and enjoy the benefits of citizenship ...more.

"This morning I set out to write a piece about the looting of the aid Flotilla to Gaza, by your soldiers. As you may have read, an Israel Defense Forces officer, has been remanded by a military court, suspected of stealing laptop computers from passengers. Interestingly, Haretz newspaper, now refers to the fleet as an ‘aid flotilla.’ Which it was. Rather than the ‘terror’ fleet your leaders would have had you call it. But I digress. ...more.

A UN report says the Israeli army has increasingly restricted Palestinian access to farmland in the Gaza Strip and fishing zones along its shore. ...more.

Settlers and Palestinians recall Israeli withdrawal in 2005 ...more.

Panorama is given unique access to Israel's Naval Commando 13, the unit which seized a ship in the Gaza flotilla in May resulting in the deaths of nine activists. ...more.

Cevdet Kiliclar, one of nine Turkish activists killed on an aid flotilla trying to break the naval blockade on Gaza, was prepared to become a 'martyr', his wife tells Panorama. ...more.

The head of Israel's military defends its use of live ammunition during a deadly raid on an aid flotilla sailing to Gaza in May. ...more.

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak says that a flotilla of ships taking aid to Gaza in May was a planned provocation. ...more.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is due to face an Israeli inquiry examining the deaths of Turkish activists on a Gaza aid flotilla. ...more.

Gaza children shoulder the burden of supporting large families ...more.