Full Coverage: Middle East

31.12.2008 Human rights groups in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories are calling for international sanctions against Israel following bombing raids that have killed more than 375 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
+ Gaza today: ‘This is only the beginning’
+ OneWorld Guide to Palestine
+ Grave threat of spread of child malnourishment
+ Hospitals overburdened by influx of wounded

30.12.2008 The people of the Gaza Strip are facing a humanitarian crisis unless the bombing stops and the Israelis allow immediate access for aid shipments, Oxfam warns.
+ Stop the Killing in Gaza

22.12.2008 Massive forced civilian displacements, violence, and unmet medical needs in Congo, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, and Pakistan, along with neglected medical emergencies in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, are some of the worst humanitarian and medical emergencies in the world, according to an international medical humanitarian organisation.

19.12.2008 The arrests of three Egyptian bloggers in the past seven weeks because of their online posts has been condemned by an international media freedom group.