Southern Levant

Israel has preliminarily granted permission for a Turkish generator ship to anchor off the coast of the Gaza Strip and provide the power-starved Palestinian enclave with electricity

Turkey will donate $200 million toward the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip by 2017 as part of international efforts to rebuild the embattled enclave devastated by a recent Israeli bombardment.

The number of wounded Palestinians evacuated from the Gaza Strip for treatment in Turkey has reached 123, according to a written statement released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry

Egypt has invited Turkey to a donors’ conference for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, after months of strained relations between the two countries

Turkey has evacuated 33 more wounded Palestinians from the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.

The Palestinians were initially transferred from Gaza Strip to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport on Aug. 28, where the Turkish Ministry of Health National Medical Rescue Team (UMKE) provided preliminary treatment.

Vital humanitarian aid was arriving in Gaza Thursday as residents began rebuilding their lives following a devastating 50-day war between Israel and Hamas that experts say left no winners.
      

Palestinians say 2,122 died in conflict so far

GAZA STRIP -- Two Palestinians were killed overnight as Israel continued its attacks on the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll in the conflict to 2,122.

This was announced by Palestinian sources.

A Turkish aid official in the blockaded Gaza Strip has joined a trending campaign to support ALS research, but instead of pouring ice-cold water over himself, he used dust in solidarity with the children of Gaza.
      

A dramatic reenactment of the recent Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip has moved some bystanders to tears in an Istanbul street.

A group of actors staged the reenactment that Turkey's semi-official Anadolu Agency described as a "flash mob" in a street named as "Help Gaza" by Eyüp Municipality. 

Hamas political chief Khaled Mashaal has vowed to continue fighting Israel until it meets Palestinian conditions for a permanent cease-fire, putting an emphasis on lifting the longstanding blockade of the Gaza Strip.