Five EU nations have urged an "immediate" political transition to end violent unrest in Egypt.

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

Israeli warplanes pressing one of Israel’s deadliest assaults ever on Palestinian militants widened their sights today, dropping bombs on smuggling tunnels that are a major weapons pipeline for the Gaza Strip’s Islamic Hamas rulers.

ISRAELI police using stun grenades evicted Jewish settlers from a disputed house in Hebron yesterday, prompting mobs to go on a rampage and attack Palestinians in the volatile West Bank city.

A CAR carrying one of Israel’s top mafia kingpins exploded as it travelled in central Tel Aviv, killing him and threatening to unleash an all-out war in Israel’s increasingly violent underworld.

A PALESTINIAN militant shot and killed two Israeli security guards early yesterday at a factory along the divide between Israel and the West Bank, the military said.

Egyptian troops and Hamas police shot at each other across the volatile Gaza-Egypt border today, killing a Palestinian man and wounding at least 44 Gazans and Egyptians.

Hamas militiamen detained 32 Fatah supporters across Gaza, half of them after breaking up a party and beating guests with clubs and chairs, Fatah officials and witnesses said today.

Medics have been left baffled after a hospital patient pronounced dead on Easter Sunday was dramatically later found to be alive.

Palestinian gunmen waged a street battle outside the residence of President Mahmoud Abbas today, only hours after rival factions Fatah and Hamas reached a ceasefire in a bid to end days of bloody fighting.

CLUB-WIELDING riot troops dragged away thousands of stone-throwing Jewish settlers from rooftops and behind barbed wire yesterday, evacuating an illegal West Bank outpost in the fiercest clash over settlements since Israel’s Gaza pull-out.

A SUICIDE bomber blew himself up in a crowded pedestrian mall near Tel Aviv's old central bus station yesterday, and at least 20 people were wounded, police said.

AT least seven Palestinians were shot dead and an Israeli officer was critically wounded during heavy clashes in this northern Gaza town, while Israeli troops also carried out raids in the West Bank.