Israel rounded up more than 30 Hamas leaders in the West Bank including a Cabinet minister, taking its conflict with Hamas over daily Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza to a new level.

An Israeli aircraft fired a missile tonight that exploded close to the house of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in the Shati refugee camp next to Gaza City, Palestinian security officials said.

An explosion ripped through the Shati refugee camp – close to Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh’s house – after nightfall today, witnesses said.

DOZENS of disgruntled Palestinian police officers stormed the parliament building yesterday, complaining they don’t have enough firepower to confront Hamas, and MPs upset over the growing chaos demanded Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas reshuffle the cabinet and fire his security chief.

The five-month-old Middle East ceasefire appeared to be unravelling as Israeli strikes on a van filled with rockets and a West Bank hideout killed six Hamas militants following a Palestinian rocket barrage on an Israeli town and a suicide bombing that killed six.

A Palestinian teenager died in a mysterious explosion in Gaza City tonight.

At least 12 people have been killed and around 15 injured when Palestinian militants raked Israeli troops and settlers with gunfire in a carefully orchestrated ambush in Hebron – a divided city long plagued by religious tensions and flashes of furious violence.