Middle East News – Gaza City voices: Pressure eases
Gaza City voices: Pressure eases
Palestinians across Gaza City describe a welcome easing in conditions after Israeli tanks pull back.
Israeli air strike on Gaza Strip
An Israeli air strike on a car in southern Gaza kills a Palestinian and wounds at least three others, reports from Gaza say.
Israel ‘no mercy’ officer rebuked
The Israeli army says it has reprimanded an officer who gave a booklet to troops in Gaza advising they show no mercy.
Who is a civilian?
What can be defined as military target?
Long wait at Rafah crossing
Ambulances and supply trucks wait at the crossing into Egypt as the Israeli air assaults on Gaza continue.
Detainee treatment ‘inhuman’
Palestinians arrested during the recent Israeli operation in Gaza were held in “appalling” conditions, human rights groups say.
Egypt sows seeds for agricultural revolution
The country has radical plans to modernise its poverty-stricken farming industry, which is largely based on smallholdings, by enabling farmers to invest in machinery
Path to peace through Golan
With direct talks between Israel and Syria suspended, Wrye Davies visits the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, key to any future peace deal.
Turkish PM given hero’s welcome
Thousands cheer Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his return to Istanbul after storming out of a Gaza debate in Davos.
Fraud claim mars Iraq poll
An official with Sunni Arab political party accused a rival faction of inciting violence in Anbar province as a dispute over provincial council elections threatened to escalate
UN launches $613m appeal for Gaza
The UN will launch an appeal for $613m to help people affected by Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, the body’s top official says.
The road to Bethlehem
BBC correspondent Aleem Maqbool retraces the journey taken by Joseph and Mary according to the New Testament Gospel of Luke.
Israel ‘hides settlements data’
Israel has concealed key data detailing illegal settlement-building activity, reports Haaretz newspaper.
Gaza conflict map
See at a glance where hostilities affected Gaza and towns in southern Israel.
Major Israeli settlement ‘unlawful’
The human rights group B’Tselem has published a report saying that Ofra, one of the most significant and well-established Israeli settlements in the West Bank, is unlawful under Israeli law, reports the BBC’s Tim Franks.
Child casualties
A bereaved family in Gaza shares its pain
Who are Hamas?
Hamas, the main Islamist movement in the Palestinian territories, was born soon after the previous intifada erupted in 1987.
Shot Briton’s family ‘gets 1.5m’
The family of a British cameraman shot dead in Gaza in 2003 accept a reported 1.5m payout from Israel.
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