Yolande Knell

The official outlines a phased plan which would see hostages freed in step with Israeli pullouts.

For the second year running, tourists are staying away and public festivities have been cancelled.

The UN says critical aid deliveries into Gaza will be undermined when the ban starts on Thursday.

Egypt and Qatar are "intensifying diplomatic efforts" as concern grows that fighting will resume.

The BBC joins a GP in Gaza as she sees dozens of patients, struggling to treat them with a dwindling supply of drugs.

Three thousand names were removed from an official list of those killed in Israel's offensive.

Video footage shows crowds breaking into the warehouse and taking bags of flour and cartons of food.

UN condemns Gaza aid 'death trap' as dozens reported killed by Israeli fire

Three freelance journalists working for the BBC in Gaza are facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering.

The biblical site of Mount Sinai in Egypt is at the heart of an unholy row over plans to build a huge new tourism project.