GAZA, (PIC)-- The government committee against the siege has announced that 140 Turkish activists had joined the European aid convoy "Viva Palestina-3" which crossed Turkey and entered Syria on Sunday en route to Gaza.

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU's new foreign relations chief, Catherine Ashton, criticised Israel in her first speech on the Middle East and unveiled plans to visit the region in the New Year.

Following the issuing of an arrest warrant in a British court for Israeli politician Tzipi Livni on charges of War Crimes during the Gaza war, the British government is attempting to change the laws on universal jurisdiction to prevent future ‘embarrassment’.

15 December 2009 – A United Nations committee on Palestinian rights today called on the international community “to take urgent and decisive action against the continued illegal Israeli actions,” warning that Israel’s settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory risk undermining the whole structure of international law.

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Friends of Al-Aqsa welcomes the news that an application for an arrest warrant for Tzipi Livni was granted by a British judge, in order to allow the arrest and questioning of Ms Livni relating to charges of War Crimes committed in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.

Bethlehem - Ma'an - Jewish Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein will head to Gaza with 1,000 international delegates of the Gaza Freedom March in late December, the event’s organizers said on Friday.

Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni cancelled a visit to Britain this weekend over fears pro-Palestinian lawyers would seek to have her arrested.

Ahava, Covent Garden, was shut Saturday by two people locked onto a concrete block inside the store.

Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian West Bank have vandalised a mosque, torching its library and spraying hate messages in Hebrew on the building.