A Jerusalem court has handed a life sentence to the main attacker in the killing of a Palestinian teenager in 2014 whose death helped spark a chain of events that led to that year’s Gaza war.

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A leading international watchdog said that the Israeli military may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during last summer’s Gaza war when it carried out four days of intense bombardment in retaliation for an attack by Hamas militants in which an Israeli soldier was captured.

Ali Wahdan, a maths teacher from Gaza, lost his wife, 11 members of his family and a leg to Israeli bombardment of the town of Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza Strip, during last year’s war between Israel and Hamas.

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A Palestinian man stabbed 11 people on and near a bus in central Tel Aviv, seriously wounding three of them before he was shot and arrested by Israeli police.

A Palestinian man stabbed 11 people on and near a bus in central Tel Aviv, seriously wounding three of them before he was shot and arrested by Israeli police.

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has opened a preliminary probe into possible war crimes in Palestinian territories.

In yet another spiteful act, Israel has delayed the transfer of €104m in monthly taxes it collects on behalf of the Palestinians.

Mahmoud Abbas has said the Palestinians will join the International Criminal Court – a move that sets the stage for filing a war crimes case against Israel.

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip has struck southern Israel in the first such attack since September, the Israeli military reported.

The Israeli military has said it has opened a criminal investigation into one of the deadliest air strikes of the last Gaza war.

Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing war crimes during the war in the Gaza Strip this summer, saying it displayed “callous indifference” in attacks on family homes in the densely populated coastal area.

Israeli police have shot and killed a Palestinian man suspected of trying to kill a hard-line Jewish activist in Jerusalem, an incident that threatened to further inflame the city's already high tensions.

The United States is promising €212m in immediate assistance to the Palestinians as part of an international effort to rebuild the Gaza Strip after this summer’s 50-day war.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Israel yesterday en route to the United Nations in New York, saying he will refute "all of the lies directed at us" with regard to Israel’s recently concluded war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

A leading international rights group alleged that Israel committed war crimes during this summer’s Gaza war, saying it reached that conclusion after investigating three attacks on or near UN-run schools housing displaced Palestinians.

An open-ended ceasefire in the Gaza war held yesterday as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced strong criticism in Israel over a costly conflict with Palestinian militants in which no clear victor emerged.

An open-ended ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip is holding.

Egyptian state media has announced a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel to halt the seven-week Gaza war, which has killed over 2,200 people.

Hamas has signed a pledge to back any Palestinian bid to join the International Criminal Court, two senior officials in the group said today.

Palestinian militants launched dozens of rockets and Israel responded with airstrikes after Egyptian efforts to mediate a lasting truce in the month-long Gaza war collapsed in a hail of fire a day earlier.

Palestinian militants have launched dozens of rockets and Israel responded with air strikes after Egyptian efforts to mediate a lasting truce in the month-long Gaza war collapsed in a hail of fire a day earlier.

A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip collapsed yesterday, with claims that Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel, prompting Israeli air strikes that health officials said killed a woman and a young girl. 

Israel’s Shin Bet security service said it had thwarted a Hamas coup attempt in the West Bank aimed at toppling Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.

A Palestinian negotiator has said his side is “less optimistic” about indirect talks with Israel over the Gaza war as a deadline on a temporary ceasefire looms.

The European Union has offered to take charge of Gaza’s border crossings and work to prevent illegal arms flows, insisting on a durable truce and saying a return to the status quo before the latest war “is not an option”.

Hamas negotiators have met the Islamic militant group’s leadership in Qatar to discuss a proposal for a long-term truce with Israel, with an official saying the group was inclined to accept the Egyptian-mediated offer.

Hamas has agreed to extend a ceasefire for another five days, the head of the Palestinian delegation negotiating a truce with Israel has said.

A Palestinian negotiator says his team will quit Egyptian-brokered talks on ending the Gaza war unless Israeli negotiators return to Cairo.

There has been renewed rocket fire on Israel after a three-day truce expired today and negotiations in Cairo on a new border deal for the coastal strip hit a deadlock.

An Israeli soldier feared by the the military to have been abducted by Palestinian gunmen in a firefight that shattered Gaza’s temporary ceasefire has been declared dead.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Hamas tonight that it will “pay an intolerable price” if it continues to fire rockets at Israel.

Israel will not participate in indirect ceasefire talks with Hamas for now and instead plans to scale back its 26-day military operation in Gaza on its own terms, according to officials and media reports.

At least four Palestinians have been killed by Israeli tank fire nearly two hours after Israel and Hamas began observing a three-day ceasefire, Gaza officials have said.

The three-day Gaza ceasefire has begun after heavy Israel-Hamas fighting early today.

Fifteen Palestinians have died and more than 90 were injured after Israeli tank shells slammed into a crowded UN school sheltering Gaza war refugees, health officials and UN chiefs have said.

At least thirteen people have been killed in a tank shell attack on a United Nations school in Gaza, where hundreds of Palestinians had taken refuge from Israeli attacks.

Members of Congress are falling over one another to show their support for Israel.

Israel and Hamas have launched new attacks in the raging Gaza war, despite each side offering different truces to temporarily halt nearly three weeks of fighting ahead of a major Muslim holiday.

Hamas said it has agreed to a 24-hour humanitarian truce in the Gaza war ahead of a major Muslim holiday.

Israel has agreed to extend a 12-hour humanitarian truce in the Gaza war by four hours, a Cabinet minister said.

A 12-hour humanitarian ceasefire has begun to allow civilians in Gaza to receive aid and evacuate to safer areas.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told US secretary of state John Kerry that Israel will begin a 12-hour pause in Gaza hostilities starting at 7am Israeli time today (5am Irish time), a US official said last night.

US secretary of state John Kerry said he has not yet reached a deal between Israel and Hamas to call a seven-day humanitarian truce in the Gaza war but is continuing work.

Israeli aircraft pummelled the rocket arsenals of Gaza militants and signalled a ground invasion might be growing near as troops, tanks and armoured personnel carriers massed near Israel’s southern border with the Palestinian territory.

Palestinian militants barraged Israel with more than 200 rockets today, killing three people, as Israel pressed a punishing campaign of air strikes on militant targets across the Gaza Strip.

A zoo in the Gaza Strip has started putting stuffed animals in cages.

Palestinian militants fired more than a dozen rockets at southern Israel today and Israeli warplanes killed four militants in the Gaza Strip in the most intense fighting since Israel's 2008-2009 offensive in the Hamas-ruled territory.

PALESTINIAN rockets struck deep inside Israel, landing closer to the urban sprawl south of Tel Aviv, and Israeli aircraft pounded targets in Gaza in a surging conflict that has raised fears of a new war.