More Israeli airstrikes hit crowded areas in the Gaza Strip today, increasing the civilian death toll.

A UN war crimes investigation into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza has found evidence that both sides committed “war crimes”.

A UN war crimes investigation into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza has found evidence that both sides committed “war crimes,” the global body said today.

Israel and Hamas responded to a UN peace demand by hammering away at each other with bombs, shells and rockets today.

More than 250 children have been killed in the Gaza fighting, according to the latest UN figures.

Israeli troops raided the northern Gaza Strip today, killing at least nine Palestinians, including the son of a senior Hamas leader and three civilians, in an operation against rocket squads.

At least seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip today.

Israel unleashed four air strikes on Hamas targets a few minutes apart today, killing at least one Hamas activist and wounding four, doctors and security officials reported.

The Israeli military today launched a three-pronged offensive in the northern Gaza Strip, killing a top Hamas commander, in its latest operation against Palestinian rocket squads.

A Syria-based Palestinian faction said today that its truce with Israel was over following a missile strike by Israel that killed at least two Hamas militants in Gaza.

Israel killed four Hamas militants in a missile strike today, and moved artillery cannons to the Gaza border, part of a what it said would be a “crushing” response to the first major Hamas rocket barrage on Israeli towns since Israel’s pullout from Gaza two weeks earlier.

Palestinian security forces and Hamas militants exchanged gunfire in a crowded Gaza City neighbourhood today.

Palestinian police and Hamas militants exchanged gunfire in a crowded Gaza City neighbourhood today, and at least nine people were wounded in some of the worst fighting among Palestinians in recent years. Palestinian security forces were placed on high alert throughout Gaza.

Israeli helicopters fired two missiles at a house in the southern district of Gaza City today.

Israel confirmed its helicopters targeted a Palestinian militant involved in the death of six Israeli soldiers and Israeli media described the attack today as a vengeance killing for flaunting the severed head of an Israeli victim.

Two Palestinians were killed when their car exploded in Gaza City today, witnesses and medical officials said.

An Israeli helicopter fired three missiles at a metal workshop in Gaza City early today, causing some damage, but no major injuries.

A senior Hamas commander and his assistant have been killed in an apparent Israeli air strike in Gaza City that ripped apart their motorcycle.

Nidal al-Mughrabi, Gaza

Palestinians today handed over to Israel body parts of soldiers killed in an explosion that destroyed an armoured personnel carrier in Gaza City, Palestinian officials said.

ISRAELI troops fired missiles, demolished buildings and raided homes in a densely populated Gaza City neighbourhood yesterday in a bid to recover the body parts of six soldiers killed by Palestinian militants.

An Israeli helicopter today fired a missile at a building in Gaza City, causing an unknown number of casualties, as Israeli soldiers searched for the body parts of six comrades blown up during intense fighting with the Palestinians.

Ibrahim Barzak, Gaza City

At least six Israeli soldiers were killed today when their armoured personnel carrier drove over a bomb during clashes with Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces battled Palestinian gunmen in Gaza City today, killing at least three Palestinians, while nearby an Israeli vehicle rolled over a large bomb, wounding several people inside, witnesses and officials said.

ISRAELI troops killed eight Palestinians yesterday in the deadliest raid in the Gaza Strip in more than a month, casting a shadow over a new American push to salvage a battered peace plan.

The Israeli air force struck a target in the southern part of Gaza City tonight, witnesses said.