British human rights activist trapped in the Gaza strip

British human rights activist and journalist Lauren Booth has been trapped illegally in the Gaza strip as a result of a legal campaign calling for an end to the Israeli government blockade there, say Palestinian activists. The international Free Gaza Movement...

Tutu to investigate Gaza killings

Archbishop Desmond Tutu will enter Gaza later this week to conduct a United Nations investigation into the killing of 19 Palestinian by Israeli shells in November 2006. He is intending to visit the scene of the incident in which Israeli forces fired an artillery...

Church leaders call for decisive US action over Gaza crisis

As US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice travels to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the wake of the chaos occasioned by Israel’s intervention in Gaza, senior US church figures have written calling for urgent action. The letter from the the leaders of US...