The United States is cutting more than $200 million in aid to the Palestinians, the State Department says, amid a deteriorating relationship with the Palestinian leadership.

Israel and Gaza militant groups agrees a ceasefire, a Palestinian official says, after Israel launched dozens of air strikes against the Palestinian enclave's ruling Hamas group and gunmen fired more than 100 rockets across the border.

US President Donald J Trump did not mince his words: President Harry S Truman, a Democrat, made the United States the first country to recognise Israel's statehood (May 14, 1948), yet his own December 6, 2017 decision to shift the US embassy to Jerusalem, the first country to do so, on May 14, 2018, may have converted the logical 1948 recognition decision into a 2018 conflict invitation.

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

We condemn strongly Israel for its brutal killing of 58 unarmed Palestinians. More than two thousand others have been wounded, and the casualty is mounting. They were protesting in Gaza against shifting the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, effectively recognising the annexation of the holy city by Israel.

Bangladesh strongly condemns the use of force by the Israeli authorities against Palestinians on Monday, May 14, 2018, which left scores of Palestine civilians dead and several thousand injured on the Gaza border.

Fifty-two Palestinians are killed by Israeli fire during violent clashes on the Gaza-Israel border coinciding with the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem, the health ministry in the strip announces.

A Palestinian journalist shot two weeks ago by Israeli forces on the Gaza border has died, Israeli and Palestinian sources say, the second journalist killed in a month of unrest.

Israeli fire has killed two Palestinian teenagers in Gaza, local health officials say, after Israel launched attacks against 18 targets belonging to militant groups in the enclave in response to an explosion that wounded four Israeli soldiers.