The Week in the Middle East looks at the increasing religious influence on the IDF, follow Palestinians trying to leave the Gaza strip and examine what Barrack Obama has achieved in the Middle East.
In this edition: no election in sight in Hamas-ruled Gaza; the battle for water between Israel and Palestine; anger boils over in Iraq after string of attacks; and the mystery man at the heart of a diplomatic row between France and Iran.
Amnesty international accuses Israel of depriving Palestine of water and mobilises net users; the web stands divided over Barack Obama’s planned education reform; and net users are invited to ask questions to Nobel Prize winners on Youtube.
On a visit to Jerusalem on Wednesday, US ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice (left) called for an end to "anti-Israel vitriol" at the UN, where a Gaza war crimes report will come under debate.
Mohammed Dahlan, member of the Fatah Central Committee and former security chief in the Gaza strip was also born in a refugee camp in Khan younes. He answers France 24 questions.
The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution endorsing the Goldstone report, which accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes during the Gaza conflict earlier this year.
In this edition: Israel's four-year old embargo on motor vehicles to Gaza doesn't stop cars from getting in; rebuilding Nahr el-Bared in Lebanon; why Iran's former president now seems to be falling in line.
Elie Barnavi talks about the Middle East peace process. His new book is "Aujourd'hui, ou peut-être jamais: pour une paix américaine au Proche-Orient" (Now or Never: For an American Peace in the Middle East).
Three Palestinians were killed and three wounded in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip, medical sources and witnesses have reported. The same sources said that at least four of the victims belonged to the radical Islamic Jihad group.
