Israel has eased its regime for food imports to Gaza, allowing through items like herbs, biscuits, jam and canned fruits.

With the leadership of Recep Erdogan, Turkey is once more becoming a powerful player in the Middle East.

The Iranian Red Crescent is planning to send humanitarian aid by sea to Gaza in a brazen challenge to Israel's sea blockade.

Israel has said it will not accept a UN plan for a multinational investigation into the lethal commando raid on an aid flotilla.

Former New Zealand prime minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer has been suggested to lead an inquiry into the raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla a week ago.

Six days after Israel's bloody assault on an aid flotilla that left nine foreign protesters dead, nobody can recount precisely what happened.

Israeli forces seized a Gaza-bound aid vessel peacefully and without meeting resistance on Saturday.

Protesters hurled old shoes and marched on the US consulate in Auckland today in an "expression of outrage and anger".

NZ activist Nicola Enchmarch says she saw a man shot in the head by Israeli forces after they stormed her Gaza-bound aid ship.

The NZ woman detained in Israel after a raid on an aid flotilla headed for Gaza has been released overnight.

The Israeli Embassy in Wellington says Nicola Enchmarch is about to be deported from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport but her destination is unknown.

The mother of a New Zealand woman held by Israel was last night anxiously waiting news of her daughter.

Under the gaze of the Israeli army, one man is building an extraordinary hotel.