The Israeli army’s deputy chief of staff has drawn a rebuke from Israeli ministers for comparing pre-Holocaust Germany to trends in Israel today.

At last some courageous senators in the United States are questioning the many extra-judicial killings being carried out by Israeli forces against Palestinian young people.

While media headlines focus on plans to build new Israeli settlements, these are a part of Area C, which was established under the Oslo Accords for exclusive Palestinian development. Area C makes up 62% of the West Bank. However, it is under full Israeli control.

An 18-month-old child has been killed after suspected Jewish assailants attacked a Palestinian village in the West Bank and threw fire bombs inside two homes.

The father of one of four Palestinian children killed on a Gaza beach during last summer’s Hamas-Israel war said he is outraged by the announcement from the Israeli military that it is closing its internal inquiry into the incident without any indictments.

Defence Minster Simon Coveney has voiced concerns about mortar bombs being launched into the Golan Heights where Irish peacekeeping troops are stationed.

A 14-year-old Palestinian girl, tried before an Israeli military court for hurling rocks at passing cars in the West Bank and sentenced to two months in prison, was released yesterday. Two weeks had been cut from her sentence.

A Palestinian Cabinet member died shortly after he and other protesters scuffled with Israeli troops near a West Bank village. The forces also fired tear gas close to the demonstrators, witnesses said.

A Palestinian cabinet member has died shortly after he and other protesters scuffled with Israeli troops near a West Bank village.

A member of the Palestinian cabinet has reportedly died after being hit by a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops during a protest in the West Bank.

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

The Israeli military says it is permitting hundreds of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to pray at Jerusalem’s most important mosque for the first time since 2007.

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.

The Israeli military says three rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip, breaking a temporary ceasefire amid negotiations over the war between Israel and Hamas.

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.

Israel and the Hamas militant group accepted a renewed Egyptian ceasefire proposal yesterday, clearing the way for the resumption of talks on a long-term truce meant to end a month of heavy fighting in the Gaza Strip that has taken nearly 2,000 lives.

The Israeli military has resumed strikes on targets “across Gaza” in response to rocket fire from the territory.

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.

Israel withdrew most of its ground troops from the Gaza Strip yesterday in an apparent winding-down of the nearly month-long operation against Hamas that has left more than 1,800 Palestinians and 60 Israelis dead.

"Conquerors of every age attempted to lessen the character of the conquered that they might in a plausible appearance of justice impose their yoke upon them" — John O’Donovan, May 19, 1836.

Ten people have been killed by a strike near a United Nations school in the embattled coastal territory, a Gaza health official said.

Israeli shelling killed at least 15 Palestinians sheltering in a UN-run school and another 17 near a street market yesterday, Gaza’s Health Ministry said, with no ceasefire in sight after more than three weeks of fighting.

The Israeli military has declared a four-hour ceasefire in some areas of the Gaza Strip, for humanitarian reasons.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is demanding an end to the violence in Gaza “in the name of humanity”.

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.

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

The UN chief and the US secretary of state have made a new attempt to nail down a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas.

Thousands of Palestinians protesting against the fighting in Gaza clashed with Israeli soldiers as the violence spread to the West Bank.

Israel uncovered more than a dozen cross-border tunnels and engaged in gun battles with Hamas militants today on the second day of its open-ended ground operation in Gaza, as the Palestinian death toll there topped 300.

Israel launched a large-scale ground offensive in the Gaza Strip yesterday, escalating a 10-day military operation to try to destroy Hamas’ weapons arsenal, rocket-firing abilities, and tunnels under the Palestinian territory’s border with Israel.

A rocket fired from Gaza has landed in Israel just as a five-hour ceasefire expired, the Israeli military says.

Three mortar shells have been fired from Gaza into Israel after a humanitarian ceasefire came into effect, according to the Israeli military.

Israeli war planes intensified attacks across the Gaza Strip today, targeting senior Hamas leaders and bombing a coastal area where four Palestinian boys were killed.

Hundreds of Palestinian families, their children crying, fled as Israel intensified airstrikes on Hamas targets, including homes of the movement’s leaders, following failed Egyptian ceasefire efforts.

The Israeli military says it has resumed airstrikes on Gaza after Hamas militants violated a de-escalation brokered by Egypt.

Thousands of Palestinian residents of the northern Gaza Strip fled their homes and sought safety in United Nations shelters.

Israeli air strikes targeting Hamas in Gaza have hit a mosque as the Palestinian death toll topped 120 in an offensive that shows no signs of slowing down.

The UN’s senior human rights official says Israel’s air campaign in Gaza could violate international laws prohibiting the targeting of civilians.

Israel has launched its largest offensive in the Gaza Strip in nearly two years, carrying out a blistering aerial assault on scores of targets and killing 25 people.

The Israeli military has found the bodies of three missing teenagers, just over two weeks after they were abducted in the West Bank, allegedly by Hamas militants.

The Israeli military has discovered the bodies of three teenagers who were kidnapped in the West Bank earlier this month, security officials say.

Israeli troops arrested some 80 Palestinians, including dozens of members of Hamas, in an overnight raid in the West Bank as the prime minister accused the Islamic militant group of kidnapping three teenagers who went missing last week.