Gaza Strip

(Newser) - Dozens of masked gunmen attacked a United Nations-run summer camp for Gaza's children yesterday, tying up guards and setting the camp on fire. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the AP reports, although the UN camps are competing with camps run by Hamas, which teach an anti-Israel doctrine...

(Newser) - Benjamin Netanyahu rejected international criticism of a deadly raid against a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, saying today that the blockade of the Palestinian territory is needed to prevent missile attacks against Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. "Israel is facing an attack of international hypocrisy," Netanyahu said in a...

(Newser) - With more aid ships on the way to Gaza , this doesn't bode well: A commander in the Israeli Navy tells the Jerusalem Post that any ships trying to break the sea blockade on the Gaza Strip can expect an aggressive response. "We boarded the ship and were attacked as...