'We are putting a complete siege on Gaza... No electricity, no food, no water, no gas -- it's all closed'

More than 600 killed in Israel; at least 370 Palestinians dead

Israeli fighter jets hit 25 targets in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian territory, the army says.

Israeli troops killed four Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others yesterday with live fire and tear gas used against protesters at the Gaza border, medics say.

With the death toll mounting to 58 last Monday thanks largely to a trigger-happy Israeli military and smiles all around Tel Aviv and Washington the two-state solution is all but dead and buried. When President Trump decided to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, all pretence of a negotiated settlement was effectively thrown out the window and what is happening in Gaza today points to a mindset that

Israeli forces faced accusations of committing war crimes and using "disproportionate force" against Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza yesterday on the deadliest day of cross-border violence since a devastating 2014 war between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers.

On the bloodiest single day for Palestinians since the Gaza conflict in 2014, Israeli troops shot dead 55 Palestinian protesters on the Gaza border on Monday as the United States opened its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem. The international community has strongly condemned the continuing violence along the Gaza-Israel border.

The United States officially opens its deeply controversial Jerusalem embassy in a ceremony that included a video address by President Donald Trump.

US President Donald Trump hail the scheduled opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem as "a great day for Israel," even as deadly clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli security forces on the Gaza border.

Clashes erupt as tens of thousands of Gazans marched near the Israeli border in a major protest, leaving eight Palestinians dead and many more wounded in one of the worst days of violence in recent years.

Israel's military says it has uncovered and "neutralised" a tunnel extending from the Gaza Strip several hundred metres inside Israeli territory.

Four Palestinians are shot dead and a fifth wounded in attacks on Israelis in east Jerusalem and the West Bank Saturday, as violence that has fuelled concerns of an uprising showed no let-up.

The Israeli military says Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fire a rocket into southern Israel, amid a sharp increase in tensions.

The Israeli defence ministry says that two Israelis, including an Arab, were being held captive in the Gaza Strip, accusing Hamas of holding one of them.

A United Nations investigation has found “serious violations of international humanitarian law” by both Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip during their bloody battle last summer.

Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the military and a Palestinian hospital