Thursday, Jun 25th
Last update08:17:15 AM GMT
Human Rights Israel blocks pasta shipment to Gaza, and tensions boil
For more than seven weeks, the international aid group Mercy Corps has been trying to send 90 tons of macaroni to the isolated Gaza Strip as part of a global campaign to help the 1.4 million Palestinians there rebuild their lives after Israel's recent devastating 22-day military operation.
Israel, which controls most of what goes into and out of Gaza, has said no repeatedly.
 Senior Israeli security officials met on Tuesday to discuss the possibility of expelling Palestinians from the... |
 Palestinian children are "increasingly unprotected", as Israel forces human rights organisations to cease or curtail work... | ||
 A Palestinian citizen of Israel held by the internal security agency, Shin Bet, has died in... |
 For the past four years, I have witnessed the slow deterioration of our healthcare system. In... |
