Gaza militants have fired rockets at Israel today, defying the Israeli military’s warning that it will not tolerate renewed attacks on the country’s south.

Egypt's UN Ambassador tonight said representatives of Israel, the Palestinians and Hamas have agreed to meet tomorrow for talks brokered by Egypt.

THE International Committee of the Red Cross urged Israel yesterday to allow speedier access for ambulances to evacuate the wounded in Gaza which it said was mired in a “full-blown” humanitarian crisis.

Sporadic gunfire and artillery shelling rang out from a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon today as the army fought to uproot Fatah Islam militants holed up in the settlement.

The 192 countries that have signed the Geneva Convention on the conduct of warfare today met to consider whether to adopt a new Red Cross emblem.

Fathi Arafat, the brother of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and founder of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, has died. He was 67.

Fathi Arafat, the brother of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and founder of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, died today. He was 67.

Israel’s army must hand over to the Palestinians bodies of Palestinians killed in fierce fighting in a northern West Bank refugee camp, according to a court settlement today stopping Israeli plans to bury bodies in unmarked northern graves.