BBC News with David Legge
The Arabic news network al-Jazeera has published details of what it says are hundreds of leaked records of Middle East negotiations. The BBC has not
independently
verified
the documents, but al-Jazeera says they show among other things that in 2008 Palestinian negotiators secretly allowed Israeli
annexation
s in East Jerusalem. It says the documents are confidential Palestinian records covering more than a decade of talks with Israel and the United States.
An Israeli inquiry into a raid on aid ships trying to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza last year has concluded the action did not
contravene
international law. Nine Turkish activists were killed in the raid, but the inquiry decided the Israeli forces opened fire in self-defence. Turkey says the report has no credibility, as Jonathan Head reports from Istanbul.
In the nine months since the flotilla incident, Turkey has not
budged from
its view that the actions of Israeli forces were illegal and unjustifiably violent.
So the conclusion of the Israeli inquiry that neither the government nor the commandos who boarded the flotilla were at fault has received a predictably negative response here.
Turkey's own commission of inquiry said it was surprised,
appall
ed and dismayed by the Israeli report and went on to list its arguments for the illegality of the assaults on the flotilla.