This is the first such raids since a cease-fire ended the war with Hamas last month.

Israel is now India’s second-largest supplier of defence equipment, though Russia continues to take the top slot.

Naftali Bennett is opposed to Palestinian independence and strongly supports Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians and much of the international community see as a major obstacle to peace.

Al Jazeera's Budeiri was arrested a day after she wore a protective vest marked “press,” and was dragged away by police at a protest in Sheikh Jarrah.

Avi Har-Even, an 84-year-old rocket scientist, died as a result of injuries sustained when rioters set fire to the Efendi Hotel during the peak of Arab-Jewish violence last month.

Givara Budeiri was detained by the Israeli border police on Saturday in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, where she had been wearing body armour marked ‘press’

UN said Gaza director Matthias Schmale and his deputy have been recalled to UNRWA's headquarters in east Jerusalem for “consultations.”

Rights groups say evictions of Palestinian families could still proceed in the coming months as international attention wanes, potentially igniting another round of bloodshed.

The dramatic announcement by Naftali Bennett, leader of the small hardline Yamina party, set the stage for a series of steps that could push Netanyahu and his dominant Likud party into the opposition in the coming week.

Egypt last week invited Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority for separate talks in Cairo to consolidate the Cairo-mediated cease-fire and accelerate the reconstruction process in Gaza.

To strengthen the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, Blinken will have to tackle hawkish Israeli leadership, Palestinian divisions and deeply rooted tensions surrounding Jerusalem and its holy sites.

Many of the journalists whose accounts got blocked had been part of a WhatsApp group that disseminates information related to Hamas military operations.

‘Until the region says unequivocally they acknowledge the right of Israel to exist as an independent Jewish state, there will be no peace,’ US President Joe Biden said

Though the myriad groups claim to speak for their people, the Palestinians have not really found their voice. Nor is anyone actually willing to listen to them.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced angry accusations from his hard-line, right-wing base that he stopped the operation too soon.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said a special envoy for the Middle East was calling for an immediate ceasefire and reiterating (China's) firm commitment to the two-state solution.

Hospitals in Gaza have been overwhelmed with waves of dead and wounded from Israel's bombardment.

The firing of hundreds of imprecise rockets into Israel by Hamas and other Palestinian groups is fairly clear-cut.

Biden's move signals US concern for an end to Israel's part of hostilities with Hamas, although it falls short of joining growing Democratic demands for an immediate cease-fire.

In 1985, PV Muhammed Marakkar, a resident of Koyilandy in Kozhikode, expressed his solidarity for the Gazan cause by naming his then newly-built house ‘Palestine’.