Israel has accepted calls to investigate a 2002 air strike on a Gaza City building, where a one-ton bomb killed not only a top Hamas operative and his bodyguard, but also 13 civilians, the justice ministry announced today.

A British human rights lawyer returned to London today after being denied entry into Israel.

The former head of Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip today said he was warned by diplomats not to disembark from an aircraft after landing in London, after a tip-off British police were waiting to arrest him on war crimes charges.

THREE Palestinians disguised as Israeli military sneaked into an army post yesterday and killed four soldiers before being killed by troops — the first major attack on Israelis since last week’s Mideast summit.

ISRAELI forces killed a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, two youths and two gunmen yesterday in a raid in the Gaza Strip.