Turkish ship carrying aid for Gaza arrived in Israel Sunday

A Turkish cargo ship carrying  humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza

Turkey's state-run Anadolu (news) agency said the vessel, Lady Leyla, arrived at the Israeli port in Ashdod on Sunday, 35 hours after leaving the Turkish port city of Mersin.
The Panama-flagged ship was carrying 11,000 tonnes of supplies including food packages, flour, rice, sugar and toys, the Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
'The ship is docking these very moments,' a spokesman for the Ashdod Port, Yigal Ben Zikry, said earlier on Sunday.
Its contents were to be unloaded, inspected and sent on to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, hit by three wars with Israel since 2008 and under an Israeli blockade.
The aid delivery marks a return to normalized relations between Turkey and Israel, which were ruptured in 2010.
Aid for the 1.9 million Palestinians in the poverty stricken enclave is part of a reconciliation deal signed between Turkey and Israel last week.
Months of negotiations between the two sides led to the agreement, which included compensation for the victims of the Israeli raid.
Tel Aviv will contribute $20 million (18 million euros) to a victim's fund for those killed in the so-called Mavi Marmara affair - the name of the ship that Israeli forces raided.
In return, Ankara will drop criminal charges against the Israeli soldiers involved in the raid.
Israel rejected Turkey's main demand - easy access to the Gaza strip - but Israel has agreed to allow aid shipments to Hamas-run Gaza, as long as they first pass through the Ashdod port for inspection.
Turkey will also be allowed to build a hospital, power plant and water desalinization plant in Gaza.
Sunday's delivery comes before the start of one of Islam's major holidays - Eid al-Fitr.

Arabs Demand To Expel Iran From Islamic Bloc

Session of the Islamic Summit Conference, Turkey, April 2016

The largest bloc representing Islamic countries is meeting in Turkey Thursday, and the vast majority of those nations have united against one of their own members: Iran.
Across the region Arabs are calling for Iran to be expelled from the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a Sunni-heavy group encompassing 57 Muslim countries.
Labeling Iran as the “enemy from within,” Muslim leaders have masked their call for solidarity and unity among Muslims by laying the blame for the region’s security woes at Tehran’s feet. The calls have come from mainly Gulf countries that stand behind Saudi Arabia.
Arab media is reporting that the final statement from the summit will call on Iran to “refrain from interference in internal affairs and respect the sovereignty and independence of neighboring countries,” a direct challenge to Tehran’s sponsoring of militia groups across Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen—all countries where Saudi Arabia is also waging a proxy war.
Iran’s participation in the conference has stirred anger among thousands of Arab.
Many consider Iran the main cause of instability in the region, particularly because of its continued support of embattled Bashar al-Assad, as well as its support of the Houthi rebels in Yemen who’ve been fighting pro-Saudi forces for over a year.
“The biggest mockery in the OIC is the presence of the Iran, enemy of the Muslim nation from within,” wrote one Saudi user.
 Others accused Iran of “committing crimes against the Sunnis in Iraq and Syria” and wondered “how an Islamic summit can take place when the enemy is among you, Iran is the one killing Muslims everywhere.” Users asked to retweet posts with the hashtag “to support the tens of millions of Sunnis who have “tasted”… poisoning, harassment, and displacement [at the hands of Iran].” Many others shared images and videos blaming Iran for starving children and the destruction in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon.