Tag: Israel-Palestine

"In a democratic country police forces shouldn't be telling citizens when they should and shouldn't exercise their right to protest, at the behest of government ministers."

Officials say they were transporting critically wounded patients from al-Shifa Hospital to the Rafah border crossing.

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said he had given an order to allow police to stop the demonstration on Friday evening.

There are fears the march could disrupt the two-minute silence commemorating the war dead.

The president’s calcomes as Israeli airstrikes hit apartment buildings in a Gaza refugee camp for the second day in a row, Palestinian officials said.

Israel has been vague about its operations in Gaza, but residents and spokesmen for militant groups say troops appear to be trying to take control of the two main north-south roads.

Joseph Czuba, 71, is charged over the fatal stabbing of six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume and the wounding of Hanaan Shahin on October 14.

Aid services have already stated that such blockades on communications make providing humanitarian services to civilians nearly impossible.

Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates condemned the refugee camp bombing.