Blockade of the Gaza Strip

Palestinian National Economy Minister Mohamed Mustafa has said the Israeli authorities have officially rejected the proposal of having a Turkish floating power-generating ship near the Gaza Strip coast to help solve the electricity crisis in the embattled enclave.

International prosecutors believe Israeli soldiers may have committed war crimes during the raid on the Mavi Marmara that killed nine Turkish citizens in 2010, but have decided the case is beyond their remit, according to court papers seen by Reuters.

Ahead of last week’s vote for a non-permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Turkish envoys in African and Asian capitals were telling me how Turkey continued to be popular in the countries where they were on duty.

Egypt has invited Turkey to a donors’ conference for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, after months of strained relations between the two countries

Vital humanitarian aid was arriving in Gaza Thursday as residents began rebuilding their lives following a devastating 50-day war between Israel and Hamas that experts say left no winners.
      

Israeli air strikes killed four Palestinians in Gaza on Friday as European governments sought UN action to end more than six weeks of bloodshed.
      

A Turkish firm is awaiting Israel’s approval to send a 100-megawatt (MW) floating power plant to Palestine, the Turkish energy minister has said, as Palestinians suffer from severe electricity shortages after Israeli attacks destroyed the territory’s energy infrastructure.

Israel warned on Aug. 17 it would not countenance any long-term truce deal that did not answer its security needs as Gaza ceasefire talks resumed in Cairo.        

Feriel al-Zaaneen hasn't had a shower in more than a month. Like thousands of Palestinians, she doesn't have enough water to wash, adding to the miseries of life in war-battered Gaza.
      

Israel and the Palestinians renewed a truce that had largely tempered a five-week-old war, but the deal got off to a shaky start on Aug. 14 with rockets from Gaza slamming into Israel and Israel retaliating with air strikes.