Gaza Aid Ship

Efforts towards a truce in the Israel-Hamas war appeared to rekindle on Saturday after a new proposal from the Palestinian Hamas group which also called for more aid into Gaza, where the first food shipment by sea reached shore.

A first aid ship plying a new maritime corridor from Cyprus began unloading its cargo of desperately needed food in Gaza Friday as Hamas proposed a new six-week truce in the war.

Israel is prepared to let ships deliver aid to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip "immediately" as part of a proposed sea corridor from Cyprus, the Israeli foreign minister said on Sunday, naming four European countries as potential participants.

Israel has given preliminary approval to Cyprus for a maritime humanitarian corridor to ship aid to the besieged and war-torn Gaza Strip, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday underlined the importance of shipping urgent humanitarian support into war-torn Gaza, the UK government said.

A Turkish aid group said on Monday it would send a new flotilla of ships to break Israel's siege of Gaza, four years after the deadly storming of its vessel by Israeli commandos.

A Libyan ship carrying aid for the impoverished Gaza Strip docked at an Egyptian port on Thursday after Israel's navy stopped it from reaching the blockaded Palestinian territory.The director of the port of el-Arish, Gamal Abdel Maqsoud, said the diverted ship will unload its cargo and transfer it to the Red Crescent for delivery to Gaza by land ac...

Israel has vowed to prevent a Libyan aid ship from running the Gaza blockade after it appeared to be heading for the besieged enclave despite a flurry of diplomatic efforts to divert it to Egypt."Israel will not let the boat reach Gaza," minister without portfolio Yossi Peled told Israel's public radio a day after the 92-metre (302-foot) freighter ...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday said that, Israel had no intention of apologising for a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship in which nine people died.Lieberman's comments, during a visit to Helsinki, came ahead of a much anticipated meeting in Washington between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ne...

The military said its forces boarded the 1,200-ton Rachel Corrie cargo ship from the sea, not helicopters.

Israeli warships were tailing a Gaza-bound aid boat on Saturday just a few dozen miles (kilometers) from the blockaded Palestinian territory, determined not to let it reach Gaza despite international outrage over Israel's deadly takeover of another aid ship earlier this week.

The dueling comments suggest a potential new clash over Israel's three-year-old blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

An aid ship expects to arrive in Gaza by Saturday morning if given clear passage by Israel, just days after another aid vessel was boarded by Israeli commandos who killed nine people, crew member Derek Graham told Reuters. The MV Rachel Corrie, a converted merchant ship bought by pro-Palestinian activists and named after an American woman killed in...

Israel's deadly commando raid on Monday on a flotilla trying to break a blockade of Gaza complicated President Obama's efforts to move ahead on Middle East peace negotiations and introduced a new strain into an already tense relationship between the United States and Israel.

Below is the statement issued by Astro Awani on Monday:We wish to confirm that two Astro AWANI news crew members were onboard the Mavi Marmara, which is part of an international humanitarian relief convoy delivering aid to the people of Gaza. We have been informed that the vessel has been attacked by Israeli forces at around 10.30am Malaysian time ...

Efforts towards a truce in the Israel-Hamas war appeared to rekindle on Saturday after a new proposal from the Palestinian Hamas group which also called for more aid into Gaza, where the first food shipment by sea reached shore.

A first aid ship plying a new maritime corridor from Cyprus began unloading its cargo of desperately needed food in Gaza Friday as Hamas proposed a new six-week truce in the war.

Israel is prepared to let ships deliver aid to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip "immediately" as part of a proposed sea corridor from Cyprus, the Israeli foreign minister said on Sunday, naming four European countries as potential participants.

Israel has given preliminary approval to Cyprus for a maritime humanitarian corridor to ship aid to the besieged and war-torn Gaza Strip, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday underlined the importance of shipping urgent humanitarian support into war-torn Gaza, the UK government said.

A Turkish aid group said on Monday it would send a new flotilla of ships to break Israel's siege of Gaza, four years after the deadly storming of its vessel by Israeli commandos.

A Libyan ship carrying aid for the impoverished Gaza Strip docked at an Egyptian port on Thursday after Israel's navy stopped it from reaching the blockaded Palestinian territory.The director of the port of el-Arish, Gamal Abdel Maqsoud, said the diverted ship will unload its cargo and transfer it to the Red Crescent for delivery to Gaza by land ac...

Israel has vowed to prevent a Libyan aid ship from running the Gaza blockade after it appeared to be heading for the besieged enclave despite a flurry of diplomatic efforts to divert it to Egypt."Israel will not let the boat reach Gaza," minister without portfolio Yossi Peled told Israel's public radio a day after the 92-metre (302-foot) freighter ...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday said that, Israel had no intention of apologising for a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship in which nine people died.Lieberman's comments, during a visit to Helsinki, came ahead of a much anticipated meeting in Washington between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ne...

The military said its forces boarded the 1,200-ton Rachel Corrie cargo ship from the sea, not helicopters.

Israeli warships were tailing a Gaza-bound aid boat on Saturday just a few dozen miles (kilometers) from the blockaded Palestinian territory, determined not to let it reach Gaza despite international outrage over Israel's deadly takeover of another aid ship earlier this week.

The dueling comments suggest a potential new clash over Israel's three-year-old blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

An aid ship expects to arrive in Gaza by Saturday morning if given clear passage by Israel, just days after another aid vessel was boarded by Israeli commandos who killed nine people, crew member Derek Graham told Reuters. The MV Rachel Corrie, a converted merchant ship bought by pro-Palestinian activists and named after an American woman killed in...

Israel's deadly commando raid on Monday on a flotilla trying to break a blockade of Gaza complicated President Obama's efforts to move ahead on Middle East peace negotiations and introduced a new strain into an already tense relationship between the United States and Israel.

Below is the statement issued by Astro Awani on Monday:We wish to confirm that two Astro AWANI news crew members were onboard the Mavi Marmara, which is part of an international humanitarian relief convoy delivering aid to the people of Gaza. We have been informed that the vessel has been attacked by Israeli forces at around 10.30am Malaysian time ...