France expressed concerns over a new wave of violence in the West Bank and Jerusalem, urging swift moves to appease tension and resume diplomatic talks to end the year-long deadlock in the Middle East, the office of French President Francois Hollande said on Sunday.
Hundreds of angry mourners on Sunday buried a pregnant Palestinian mother and her 4-year-old daughter who were killed in pre-dawn Israeli airstrikes on a Hamas training facility in southern of Gaza city.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked on Sunday the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for speeding up international protection for Palestinians, in light of the increasing confrontation with Israel, Palestinian official News Agency WAFA reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Palestinian incitement is responsible for the recent bout of violence in Jerusalem's flashpoint Temple Mount site.
Israel on Monday evening denied reports that advanced negotiations with Hamas are taking place over a long-term ceasefire, a year after the war between them.
Riots against the force-feeding of a prisoner on hunger strike broke out outside a hospital in a southern Israeli city Sunday, a spokesperson for Israeli police confirmed to Xinhua.
Two Israeli soldiers were seriously injured and another one lightly injured in an apparent vehicular attack on Thursday afternoon in the West Bank, a spokesperson for the Israeli emergency services confirmed to Xinhua.
The recent reshuffle of the Palestinian consensus government has apparently deepened the internal feuds concerning its fate, according to analysts.
The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) postponed on Sunday the final match of the Palestinian Soccer Cup after Israel banned West Bank footballers from playing in Gaza.
At least 14 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli soldiers near Qalandia refugee camp between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah, witnesses and medics said on Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday slammed a France-backed initiative to settle Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to show his support for the two-state solution with deeds rather than words.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the international community for waging what he dubbed as an anti-Israel "diplomatic campaign" as he came before the parliament on Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he is still committed to the two- state solution as means to end the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel's Supreme Court rejected Monday a petition to reroute an annual ultra-nationalistic Jewish parade that marches through a Palestinian neighborhood of East Jerusalem, with dozens of marchers shouting anti-Arab calls.
The Asian-African Summit 2015 adopted a declaration on Palestine, which reaffirmed full support of the just struggle of the Palestinian people to regain their right to self-determination.
Palestinians are pressing for internationalizing their cause in the hope of ending the Israeli occupation of their lands.
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