Israel's deadly raid on an aid flotilla that attempted to run the blockade of Gaza was "regrettable" but legal under international law, an independent Israeli commission reported Sunday.
A humanitarian convoy that includes passengers who survived a previous fatal flotilla incident arrived to a jubilant welcome in Gaza, the organization said Thursday.
A Gaza humanitarian convoy that includes passengers who survived a previous fatal flotilla incident has been further delayed in its attempt to deliver aid for Palestinians, organizers said Monday.
A Gaza humanitarian convoy that includes passengers who survived a previous fatal flotilla incident has been delayed and is expected to set sail Monday in an attempt to deliver aid for Palestinians, organizers said.
A Gaza humanitarian convoy that includes passengers who survived a previous fatal flotilla incident will set sail Sunday in an attempt to deliver aid for Palestinians, organizers said.
A survivor of the fatal Gaza flotilla incident in May headed out Saturday on a new convoy to bring medical supplies to the Palestinian territory.
Israel is investigating claims that some of its soldiers stole personal belongings of activists participating in the controversial Gaza aid flotilla in May.
The leader of the Islamic movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, begins a five-month jail sentence Sunday after being convicted of assault for spitting on a border police guard during a protest against Israel's construction near the Al-Aqsa mosque in 2007.
A Libyan backed ship carrying aid for Gaza remains docked in Egypt for a third day as workers separate the supplies.
Israel's parliament has punished an Arab lawmaker for participating in the Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May.
Israeli navy commando soldiers who boarded a Gaza-bound aid flotilla on May 31, resulting in violence between troops and activists that left nine Turks dead, "operated properly, with professionalism, bravery and resourcefulness" and "exhibited correct decision making," according to an Israeli army review of the incident released Monday.
A commission appointed by Israeli officials to investigate last month's deadly flotilla raid will ask top government authorities to testify, the panel said at its first session Monday.
Retired Israeli judge Jacob Turkel will lead an inquiry into the Israeli raid on the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, in which nine people were killed, Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday.
The political repercussions of Israel's raid of boats carrying aid to Gaza last week continued to ripple across the Middle East and showed no signs of slowing Tuesday.
The Israeli military's chief of general staff has appointed a reserve general to lead "a team of experts" to examine Israel's interception of a flotilla bound for Gaza last week in order to "establish lessons from the event," the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
CNN's Matthew Chance reports Israel is bracing for more ships to run its Gaza blockade.
Iran's Red Crescent Society will try to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza by sending food and medical supplies to the besieged Palestinian territory, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday.
All 19 passengers and crew members of the Rachel Corrie have signed deportation papers and will leave the country Sunday, an Israeli interior ministry spokesman said.
Peace envoy Tony Blair says the international community must ensure people of Gaza have hope.
The Carter Center, founded by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to advance human rights and alleviate suffering, condemned Israel's attack on a ship carrying humanitarian supplies to Gaza as "unprovoked and illegal."
Autopsy results by forensics experts in Istanbul revealed that all nine of the men killed by Israeli commandoes aboard the humanitarian convoy that had planned to dock in Gaza died of gunshot wounds.
CNN's Ivan Watson reports on the heroes' welcome home for the living and the dead in Istanbul.
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