Palestinian presidential front-runner Mahmoud Abbas on denounced Israel as the “Zionist enemy” today – his harshest language yet on the campaign trail -, after Israeli tank shells slammed into a strawberry patch, killing seven Palestinians, many of them children.

A local Hamas leader was among a group of at least seven Palestinians killed during a fierce gun battle with Israeli troops in northern Gaza today.

Four people were killed today and 30 others were wounded when a suicide bomber donated explosives as passengers disembarked from a train in the northern Israeli coastal town of Nahariya.