BBC NEWS | Europe | Petrol bombs hit French synagogue
Page last updated at 11:59 GMT, Monday, 12 January 2009 Two petrol bombs have been thrown at a synagogue north of Paris, police have said, days after another French synagogue was attacked. Police in the Seine-Saint-Denis region said no injuries were caused, but a restaurant next door to the synagogue was damaged. Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said the attack was "intolerable". The inciden
BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN head set for talks on Gaza
Mr Ban comes with a simple message, says the BBC's Laura Trevelyan who is travelling with the UN chief: the fighting must stop, too many people have died. In his meetings with Palestinian and Israeli leaders, as well as senior politicians in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Turkey, Mr Ban has said he will be encouraging initiatives to open border crossings and provide humanitarian aid to Gaza. Bu
Letters: UK must act to stop violations in Gaza
The UK has a duty to stop violations of international law in the conflict between Israel and Hamas As international lawyers, we remind the UK government that it has a duty under international law to exert its influence to stop violations of international humanitarian law in the current conflict between Israel and Hamas. A fundamental principle of international humanitarian law is that the parties
Israel may face UN court ruling on legality of Gaza conflict
Israel faces the prospect of intervention by international courts amid growing calls that its actions in Gaza are a violation of world humanitarian and criminal law. The UN general assembly, which is meeting this week to discuss the issue, will consider requesting an advisory opinion from the international court of justice, the Guardian has learned. "There is a well-grounded view that both the ini
Israel faces calls for Gaza war crimes investigation
A freelance filmmaker in Gaza shot this material for Save the Children at a UN-supported school for pupils displaced from their homes by the Israeli bombings Save the Children Israel is facing growing demands from senior UN officials and human rights groups for an international war crimes investigation in Gaza over allegations such as the "reckless and indiscriminate" shelling of residential areas
Gaza crisis: Medicine with frontiers
Inside al-Arish hospital, a modern slab of stone and glass in the heart of northern Sinai's dusty administrative capital, doctors huddle in an office staring in silence at the latest scenes from Gaza flashing up on al-Jazeera TV. Ahmed Ellabban, professor of surgery at Suez Canal University, shakes his head as he surveys the scene. "There are 4,000 injured people just 50km from here," he says quie
Basim Naim: Hamas has no quarrel with Jews, only with the actions of Israel
Hamas is demonised to justify Palestinian suffering in Gaza. But we have no quarrel with Jewish people, only the actions of Israel Sixteen days into its attack, Israel continues to bombard all areas in the Gaza strip from F16s, Apache helicopters, ships and tanks. Weapons used against our people include white phosphorus rockets, made in America, which burn the skin black and destroy human soft tis
Israeli forces close in on Gaza City
While Israel continues to bombard Gaza, one family describes their struggle to survive in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City Agencies Israeli tanks fought their way into the suburbs of Gaza City for the first time today after a night of intense bombing. Heavy fighting was reported in Tel al-Hawa, in the south of the city, where tanks and attack helicopters could be heard under waves of heav
Video: Smuggling fuel to Gaza
Israel's fuel blockade has ground Gaza's infrastructure to a halt. In response, smuggling gangs bring fuel in from Egypt through underground tunnels
Seth Freedman: From making arrests on trumped charges to banning political parties, Israel has upped the anti-Arab stakes in the past seven days
Israel's claim to be a bastion of democracy in the Middle East is now in jeopardy with its crackdown on its Arab citizens On the edge of a lush, well-tended park, palm trees swaying in the evening breeze, a small delegation of demonstrators silently clutched candles as they condemned the bloodshed in Gaza. Their vigil was watched benignly by clusters of policemen strategically grouped nearby; pass
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