Relatives of a 19-year-old U.S. citizen killed in Israel\’s 2010 storming of a Turkish-led aid flotilla are suing former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak for the raid, in which nine activists died.
Turkey\’s prime minister will go ahead with a planned visit next month to Gaza, despite a request from US Secretary of State John Kerry to postpone.
Just before President Barack Obama boarded Air Force One to leave Israel on a windy Friday afternoon last month, he made a dramatic announcement.
Turkish nationals injured in Israel\’s raid on the Mavi Marmara said they will sue Israeli soldiers and their commanders despite Israel\’s apology.
\”Turkey was the first to recognize Israel from the Muslim world. Since the 15th Century, Turkey was a shelter for the Jewish people. I can think of about 1,000 reasons why Turkey and Israel should be friends. There is an affinity in history; there is a closeness in geography.\”
For a trip that U.S. officials had cautioned was not about getting “deliverables,” President Obama’s apparent success during his Middle East trip at getting Israel and Turkey to reconcile has raised some hopes for a breakthrough on another front: Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
The Israeli navy seized an international pro-Palestinian activist ship on the Mediterranean high seas on Saturday to prevent it breaching Israel\’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, a military spokeswoman said.
Israel asked the United Nations to stop a Swedish-owned ship carrying human rights activists from attempting to break Israel\’s naval blockade of Gaza.
Relatives of nine Turkish citizens killed in the raid aboard the Mavi Marmara ship filed a lawsuit against Israel, according to Turkish reports.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Turkish journalists that Israel has \”no reason to apologize\” for the Mavi Marmara incident.
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