An Israeli legal watchdog demanded on Wednesday that authorities end the closure of the Gaza Strip, claiming it violates international prohibitions against collective punishment.

`We demand the immediate reversal of all restrictions on the transfer of fuel, cooking gas and humanitarian products into the Gaza Strip,` Gisha said in a letter to the Israeli military.

At least 1,000 people took to the streets of the Jordanian capital on Wednesday to protest Israel`s blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.

Waving Jordanian flags, demonstrators marched peacefully from the headquarters of the opposition Islamic Action Front (IAF) party to the parliament building in Amman`s city centre.

Israeli authorities were questioning on Wednesday three foreigners detained with Palestinian fishermen off the Gaza Strip and who will eventually be deported, police said.

`They are being questioned. They are being held at a detention area near Ben Gurion airport,` police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said of the pro-Palestinian activists from Britain, Italy and the United States.

Israeli authorities were questioning on Wednesday three foreigners detained with Palestinian fishermen off the Gaza Strip and who will eventually be deported, police said.

`They are being questioned. They are being held at a detention area near Ben Gurion airport,` police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said of the pro-Palestinian activists from Britain, Italy and the United States.

Israel vowed Sunday to keep up its blockade of Gaza, the defence ministry said in a statement after Tel Aviv accused the Islamist Hamas movement of `shattering` a truce with rocket fire.

Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert accused the Islamist Hamas movement on Sunday of `shattering` the Gaza truce after two rockets hit Israel, prompting an air strike which killed four Palestinian militants.

Iranian MPs denounced `the crisis in Gaza` and asked Islamic organisations to respond to `cries` from Gaza`s people, Iran`s labour news agency ILNA reported on Sunday.

In a declaration supported by 217 members of the Conservative dominated 290-seat parliament, the MPs condemned `the deteriorating situation and a great humanitarian tragedy` in Gaza.

Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert accused the Islamist Hamas movement on Sunday of `shattering` the Gaza truce, after two rockets hit Israel, prompting an air strike which killed four Palestinian militants.

GAZA CITY, Nov 17, 2007 (AFP) - The New York-based Human Rights Watch group has called for the Hamas-run government in Gaza to set up an independent probe into shootings at a rally that killed eight people, calling the violence excessive and indiscriminate.

HRW in a statement on Friday welcomed a pledge by sacked Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya of the Islamist Hamas movement that it had ordered a 'strong and objective' inquiry into the circumstances of Monday's clashes.

GAZA CITY, Oct 22, 2007 (AFP) - Palestinian Islamist movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad announced Monday that they had reached a deal to end deadly factional fighting that erupted in the Gaza Strip at the weekend.

In a joint statement, the rival groups said they had agreed to 'completely and immediately end all sources of tension, including withdrawing armed men and lifting checkpoints'.

They have also decided to appoint a joint commission to 'establish why the incidents happened and come up with a radical solution'.