Blockade of the Gaza Strip

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on June 19 denounced what he called the "hypocrisy" of the United Nations after UN chief Ban Ki-moon demanded Israel protect the lives of children in Gaza.

Egypt opened its borders with the Gaza Strip for the first time in months on June 13, allowing Palestinians to enter and leave the isolated coastal strip.
                   

A group of people from the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (?HH) prayed before the Israeli ambassador's house in Ankara early May 31 on the fifth anniversary of Israel's 2010 raid on the "Mavi Marmara," a Gaza-bound flotilla ship.

Attacks by opposition parties against the government over its perceived failure to keep its promises of assistance to the Gaza Strip appear to have prompted a top Turkish agency to list in detail the country's assistance to Gaza, which has long been strangled by blockades, war and poor governance.

The International Criminal Court's preliminary examinations office has accepted an application from the relatives of the victims who were killed in Israel's 2010 raid on the "Mavi Marmara," a Gaza-bound flotilla ship, according to the victims' lawyer. 

Six months after donors pledged billions of dollars (euros) for devastated Gaza, most of the money remains blocked, and reconstruction efforts are painfully slow, a coalition of aid groups said April 13.

?We want to leave this episode behind us. Turkey is a very important country. We want friendly relations. But the ball is now in Turkey?s court.?

These words were uttered by someone you would least expect: The spokesperson of Israel?s Foreign Ministry, Emmanuel Nahshon.

A Turkish has court ordered a fresh examination of the ?Mavi Marmara? ship that was raided by Israeli soldiers while trying to break the blockade on Gaza in 2010, as a part of an ongoing case against four Israeli commanders changed in absentia with the killing of nine Turks.

Hamas condemns the fatal shooting by Egyptian border guards of what they said was a Palestinian minor on the Gaza border Militant group Hamas condemned Jan. 3 the fatal shooting by Egyptian border guards of what they said was a Palestinian minor on the Gaza border a day earlier.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Dec. 14 rejected talk of Israel withdrawing from east Jerusalem and the West Bank within two years, on the eve of a meeting with the top US diplomat.
      
"We... stand against the possibility of a diplomatic assault, that is an attempt to compel us by means of UN decisions to withdraw to the 1967 lines within two years," said Netanyahu.