A 12-year-old Palestinian girl, imprisoned by Israel after she confessed to planning a stabbing attack in a West Bank settlement, returned home yesterday after she was freed early following an appeal.

Israel’s military justice system is in the spotlight as it investigates a soldier caught on tape shooting to death a subdued Palestinian attacker, a case that has polarised the nation.

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.

Israeli troops have shot and killed a Palestinian assailant after he rammed his vehicle into a group of Israelis in the West Bank, the military said.

Two Palestinians have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank, a Palestinian health official said.

A Palestinian man has been killed during an Israeli arrest raid at a West Bank hospital, officials said.

In his reply to my letter, Derek O’Flynn of the Israeli Embassy ( Letters, November 6) inadvertently admits to the Apartheid system that exists in the West Bank, when he argues that the water Israel allows to them is two thirds that available to Israeli settlers.

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 72-year-old female Palestinian motorist who the military said tried to run them over in the occupied West Bank. Elsewhere, a knife-wielding assailant wounded an Israeli civilian.

Two Palestinians carrying knives ran towards an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank, drawing fire from troops who killed one and critically wounded the other, according to police and a Palestinian medic.

United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has offered a grim assessment of prospects for defusing the latest wave of violence between Israel and the Palestinians.

A Palestinian witness has disputed the Israeli army’s account of a fatal shooting in the West Bank. Israel’s military said a Palestinian woman was shot as she attempted to stab a soldier at a checkpoint.

While Dr Kevin McCarthy (Letters, November 24 ) may well be correct that “Israel will respond to synagogue attack”, one aspect is not widely known.

Israeli special forces stormed a West Bank hideout early yesterday and killed two Palestinians suspected of the June abduction and slaying of three Israeli teenagers.

Israel’s Security Cabinet has unanimously rejected a US proposal for a temporary pause in Israel-Hamas fighting.

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

Four Palestinians have been shot and killed during West Bank protests against Israel's military operation in Gaza, Palestinian hospital officials said.

Israeli aircraft have struck 30 houses in the Gaza Strip, killing a leader of the militant Islamic Jihad group and two of his sons.

Israel deployed ground troops inside Gaza for the first time to raid a rocket launching site in the Palestinian territory.

A Palestinian teen was abducted and killed, Palestinians said, accusing Israeli settlers of carrying out a revenge attack for the deaths of three Israeli youths.

Hamas has warned Israel against any retaliation over the deaths of three teenagers in the West Bank, threatening that “the gates of hell will open”.

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.

Israeli soldiers have killed two Palestinians, including a 13-year-old, in further clashes as a search for three Israeli teenagers feared abducted in the West Bank entered its second week.

Israeli soldiers have clashed with Palestinians during an arrest raid in the search for three missing teenagers believed to have been abducted in the West Bank, the military said.

Israel’s army has arrested 40 more Palestinians in the West Bank, expanding the search for three missing Israeli teenagers believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas last week.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that it could take time to locate three teenagers who are believed to have been abducted by Palestinian militants in the West Bank – even as Israeli forces stepped up a frantic search for the youths.

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.

A nine-year-old Jewish girl has been shot and seriously injured while playing outside in the West Bank, Israeli police said today.

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Israeli troops accidentally shot dead a 65-year-old Palestinian man during a pre-dawn raid to arrest a Hamas militant in the West Bank, Palestinian officials said.

Israeli troops killed two senior Hamas militants in an early-morning raid on a house in the West Bank city of Hebron today.

OPENING Mideast peace talks under the shadow of fresh violence, US President Barack Obama vowed yesterday not to allow “extremists and rejectionists” to undercut long-stalled negotiations on creating a sovereign Palestinian state beside a secure Israel.