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Watch: Israeli strike hits house in northern Gaza

Violent clashes have been met with international calls for de-escalation, with the European Union pushing for an "immediate comprehensive ceasefire".

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Watch: Violence escalates between Israel and Islamic Jihad militants

Israel and Islamic Jihad militants continue to trade heavy fire despite Egyptian mediators launching a new bid to end days of fighting that has killed dozens.

Israel

Israeli jets and Islamic Jihad in deadly duel in Gaza

There has been a third day of bloodshed, mourning and intense fighting as the Israeli air force targeted leaders of Islamic Jihad in their homes while Palestinians responded with rocket barrages.

West Bank

Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill militant commanders

The Palestinian Health Ministry confirms Islamic Jihad commanders and some family members were killed by Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as tensions continue to rise

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Israel

Palestinian prisoner dies in Israel after long hunger strike

A high-profile Palestinian prisoner died in Israeli custody on Tuesday after a nearly three-month hunger strike, Israel’s prison service announced, at a time of already soaring tensions between Israel and the Palestinians.

Israel

Euroviews. Boycotting Israel’s new government would only make it more anti-EU

Any overreaction would only play into the right wing’s hands, which already portrays the EU as an actor antithetical to Israel’s national interest., Shlomo Roiter Jesner writes.

World News

Thousands of Israeli settlers march to West Bank outpost

A 15-year-old Palestinian was killed in a raid on Monday as thousands of Israeli settlers marched on an evacuated settlement in the occupied West Bank.

World News

Italian tourist killed amid worsening Israel, West Bank violence

At least three people were killed and five injured in separate attacks on Friday, as tensions soared from days of fighting at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site.

Israel

Israel stages rare strikes in Lebanon, also hits Gaza Strip

Israel launched air strikes before dawn on April 7 in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, saying it was targeting Hamas in retaliation for several dozen rockets fired at Israel from both territories.

Israel

UN calls for calm in Middle East as Ramadan begins

Against the backdrop of Israeli-Palestinian tensions, Ramadan has often been a period of heightened conflict.

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University of Leeds settles antisemitism lawsuit with graduate

The University of Leeds in the UK has settled for an undisclosed sum a lawsuit which alleged that several professors purposefully gave a Jewish sociology student a failing grade for a paper which did not blame Israel for the crimes of Hamas against Palestinians.

Israel

Shooting in Tel Aviv after three Palestinians killed in West Bank

Three people were injured in a shooting in Tel Aviv after an Israeli military raid killed three Palestinian in the occupied West Bank.

Israel

UN rights chief condemns decades of violence in occupied Palestine

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned decades of violence as a European Union envoy called for accountability after scores of Israeli settlers went on a violent rampage in the northern West Bank.

World News

Euroviews. It's the right time for the EU to bring peace to the Middle East

Gone are the times of US-led Middle East peace initiatives, which means Brussels should pick up the slack amid increasing tensions between Israel and Palestine, Stefano Stefanini writes.

West Bank

Ten Palestinians killed, dozens wounded in West Bank raid

The Israeli military gave few details about its operation in the northern city of Nablus, known as a militant stronghold, where the army frequently operates.

Israel

Two dead in ramming attack in Jerusalem, including a child

Israeli authorities said the attacker was "neutralised" on the spot after a ramming attack in East Jerusalem. Two people died, including a child.

Israel

Five Palestinian gunmen killed in Israeli raid

Israeli forces killed five Palestinian gunmen in a raid on a West Bank refugee camp on Monday, Israeli security officials said, in a response to a botched attack on Israelis that was likely to further exacerbate tensions in the region.

Israel

Israel seals family home of Palestinian shooter

Israeli authorities have sealed off the family home of a 21-year-old Palestinian who killed seven people, a move that critics denounce as collective punishment.

Israel

Palestinian teen wounds two, day after seven killed in east Jerusalem

More unrest in Jerusalem after a Palestinian teenager opened fire near the historic city on Saturday morning.

West Bank

Rockets fired from Gaza towards Israel after deadly West Bank raid

Rockets were fired by Gaza militants overnight as tensions soared following an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank that killed nine Palestinians, including at least seven militants and a 61-year-old woman.