HAMAS would consider a “truce” with Israel, but will never recognise the Jewish state, a senior leader said yesterday as thousands celebrated the group’s 23rd anniversary.

Palestinian teenagers threw rocks at Israeli police and attacked a Canadian tourist bus today in a new wave of protests against ongoing Israeli construction near a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site.

Israeli vengeance for the massacre of at least 15 people in a Jerusalem pizzeria by a suicide bomber was controlled and deliberate.