The Israeli air force carried out strikes today near the village of Taibe in southern Lebanon despite an agreement to halt raids for 48 hours, the army said.

Israeli soldiers have shot and killed two suspected Palestinian militants after they detonated an explosion near a road leading to the Ganei Tal Jewish settlement.

A Palestinian suicide bomber today set off a powerful blast next to a parked van, killing himself and wounding two Israelis.

A Palestinian suicide bomber has killed himself and injured two Israelis in an attack in the Israeli-Arab town of Taibe.