The Handala was carrying 19 activists, including European politicians, and two Al Jazeera journalists. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

News agencies including AFP, AP, BBC and Reuters issued a joint statement about Gaza journalists unable to feed themselves amid deteriorating humanitarian conditions on Thursday.

According to staff at the Shifa hospital, most of the victims were killed by gunfire as they waited for aid trucks close to the Zikim crossing with Israel.View on euronews

When Sayfollah Musallet of Tampa, Florida, was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the West Bank two weeks ago, he became the fourth Palestinian-American killed in the occupied territory since the war in Gaza began.

A local authority was "fence-sitting" over a motion to de-twin a Dorset town from its Israeli counterpart, a councillor has said. Green party councillors Joe and Kate Salmon brought the motion after more than 2,500 residents signed a petition calling for the 30-year relationship between Bournemouth and Netanya to end over Israel's actions in Gaza.

Twenty-one months into Israel’s war in Gaza, the enclave is gripped by escalating scenes of death and hunger, with some killed while trying to reach aid, others dying of starvation and growing condemnation of Israel’s conduct even among many of its closest allies.

Amichay Eliyahu’s comments came amid growing hunger in the territory, where Israel controls the delivery of food.

The boat will be towed to Ashdod Port by the Navy, and the activists will then be deported from the country,’ says The Times of Israel - Anadolu Ajansı