More than 200 Palestinian activists were refusing on Saturday evening to obey orders to leave a protest camp they set up in a part of the occupied West Bank where Israel wants to build new settler homes. “Members of the Israeli Civil (military) Administration told us this morning that we…
Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. Secretary-General, said Wednesday that Israel should end its blockade of Gaza and that the deaths of activists aboard an aid flotilla could have been avoided. “Had the Israeli government heeded to international calls and my own strong and urgent and persistent call to lift the blockade…