Israel\’s opposition leader criticized the Netanyahu government for agreeing to cooperate with a United Nations probe of the Turkish flotilla incident.
Israel has agreed to participate in a United Nations investigation of the Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla incident.
The UN Human Rights Council appointed a team of international experts on Friday to investigate a raid by Israeli commandos on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May.
Israel urged Lebanon and the international community to stop two ships from sailing to the Gaza Strip from Lebanon.
High-level military officials made mistakes in their handling of the Israeli interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla, but there were \”no failures,\” an Israeli military investigation found.
The president of the United Nations General Assembly cancelled a scheduled debate on Israel\’s interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla.
In an apparent reaction to the Gaza flotilla incident, actors Meg Ryan and Dustin Hoffman reportedly have backed out of attending the Jerusalem Film Festival.
Turkey\’s foreign minister has threatened to cut ties with Israel unless it apologizes for its deadly interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla, a Turkish newspaper reported.
The Israel Navy\’s deadly takeover of a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip was a pre-mediated \”terrorist\” attack motivated by hostility, the Turkish NGO that organized the convoy wrote in a special report released on Tuesday.
The government on Tuesday looked set to widen the scope of an inquiry into Israel\’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, after a judge leading the probe threatened to resign unless his powers were increased.
