Israel’s military has hit a Hamas site in the Gaza Strip in its first air strike on the Palestinian territory since the summer’s war.

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck southern Israel yesterday, the Israeli military said, in the first such attack since September.

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip has struck southern Israel in the first such attack since September, the Israeli military reported.

Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing war crimes during the war in the Gaza Strip this summer, saying it displayed “callous indifference” in attacks on family homes in the densely populated coastal area.

The British government said it deplored an Israeli decision to appropriate a large swathe of land inside the occupied West Bank, saying the move would seriously damage Israel’s international reputation.

An open-ended ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip is holding.

Israeli aircraft have fired two missiles at a 12-storey apartment block in Gaza City, collapsing the building, sending a huge fireball into the sky and wounding at least 22 people, including 11 children, witnesses and Palestinian officials said.

An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed the wife and infant son of Hamas’s military leader, Mohammed Deif, the group said, calling it an attempt to assassinate him after a ceasefire collapsed.

Palestinian militants launched dozens of rockets and Israel responded with airstrikes after Egyptian efforts to mediate a lasting truce in the month-long Gaza war collapsed in a hail of fire a day earlier.

Israel yesterday launched air strikes across the Gaza Strip in response to Palestinian rockets fired after Egyptian- mediated talks failed to extend a 72-hour truce in the month-long war.

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas meant to last at least three days and end nearly a month of fighting has come into effect in the Gaza Strip.

Israel withdrew most of its ground troops from the Gaza Strip yesterday in an apparent winding-down of the nearly month-long operation against Hamas that has left more than 1,800 Palestinians and 60 Israelis dead.

A strike on a Gaza park has killed 10 people, including nine children.

Israel and Hamas have launched new attacks in the raging Gaza war, despite each side offering different truces to temporarily halt nearly three weeks of fighting ahead of a major Muslim holiday.

Israel warned yesterday it could "significantly widen" a Gaza land offensive, but was cautioned by its main ally, the United States, about the risks of further escalation as Palestinian civilian deaths mounted.

A rocket fired from Gaza has landed in Israel just as a five-hour ceasefire expired, the Israeli military says.

Three mortar shells have been fired from Gaza into Israel after a humanitarian ceasefire came into effect, according to the Israeli military.

Israeli war planes intensified attacks across the Gaza Strip today, targeting senior Hamas leaders and bombing a coastal area where four Palestinian boys were killed.

Israel has widened its air assault against the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers, hitting a mosque it said was hiding rockets, as Palestinians said the death toll from the five-day offensive had risen above 125.

Israel has launched its largest offensive in the Gaza Strip in nearly two years, carrying out a blistering aerial assault on scores of targets and killing 25 people.

The Israeli military has launched what could be a long-term offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, striking at least 50 sites in Gaza by air and sea.

President Barack Obama is urging Israelis and Palestinians to restrain themselves and put an end to acts of retribution in the recent round of violence.

Hundreds of Israelis lined up outside Israel’s parliament building yesterday to pay their last respects to Ariel Sharon, the former prime minister and general who died over the weekend.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has asked Russian president Vladimir Putin for a tougher stance on Syria at a time when Israeli air strikes against the Middle Eastern nation have added an unpredictable factor to the talks.

Israeli warplanes struck targets in the Gaza Strip today in response to rocket fire toward southern Israel.

US President Barack Obama said today he is not giving up on stalled peace talks in the Mideast but that continued Israeli settlement-building in the West Bank is not helping the cause.

Gaza militants have fired two rockets at southern Israel on the second day of President Barack Obama’s visit to the region, police say.

Hamas leaders in Gaza declared victory over Israel today and thousands of flag-waving supporters rallied in celebration as the battered territory entered its first day of calm under an Egyptian-brokered truce.

A ceasefire between Israel and the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers brought an end to eight days of the fiercest fighting in years and possibly signalling a new era of relations between the bitter enemies.

Israel and Hamas agreed yesterday to an Egyptian- brokered ceasefire to halt an eight-day conflict that killed 162 Palestinians and five Israelis.

Israel and the Hamas militant group edged closer to a ceasefire to end the week-long Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, but a deal remained elusive after a day of furious diplomatic efforts.

A Palestinian rocket has hit the outskirts of Jerusalem, landing harmlessly in an open area in one of the longest strikes fired from the Gaza Strip in nearly a week of fighting.

Israel bombed dozens of targets in Gaza and said that while it was prepared to step up its offensive by sending in troops, it preferred a diplomatic solution that would end rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave.

THE first thing to understand about the war that recently broke out in Israel and the Gaza Strip is that Hamas has recently been upping the ante.

Israel risks losing international sympathy if it launches a ground invasion in Gaza in a bid to crack down on Hamas militants, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said today.

Israel bombarded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with about 300 airstrikes today and shot down a Palestinian rocket fired at Tel Aviv, the military said.

Israel’s cabinet authorised the mobilisation of up to 75,000 reservists late last night, preparing the ground for a possible Gaza invasion after Palestinians fired a rocket toward Jerusalem for the first time in decades.

Palestinian militants fired a rocket thought to be aimed at Jerusalem today, setting off air raid sirens throughout the city and opening a new front in three days of fierce fighting between Israel and armed groups in the Gaza Strip.

An Irish filmmaker has revealed how missiles and bombs exploded around him as Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza.

Egypt’s prime minister has rushed to the aid of the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers in the middle of an Israeli offensive as Palestinian rocket squads aimed at Tel Aviv for a second straight day.

Israeli aircraft pummelled the rocket arsenals of Gaza militants and signalled a ground invasion might be growing near as troops, tanks and armoured personnel carriers massed near Israel’s southern border with the Palestinian territory.

Three Israelis were killed today in a rocket attack from Gaza against southern Israel, police officials said.

Palestinian officials have asked the UN Security Council to act to halt Israel’s military operation in Gaza.

A flare-up in fighting between Israel and militants from Gaza’s ruling Hamas movement has subsided after intervention from the government in Egypt.