Israelis and Palestinians on Wednesday both claimed "victory" in the Gaza war, one day after the long-term cease-fire came into effect.
A series of powerful explosions wrecked the northern part of Gaza city after Israeli war jets struck a 14-floor residential tower with four heavy missiles, the pro-Hamas al-Aqsa Television reported.
The Lebanese army said on Thursday that it arrested an Arab citizen of Israel who had cut through the border's barbed wire to cross into Lebanon, a security source revealed to Xinhua.
Israel has partially lifted its fishing ban in Gaza to allow fishing within three nautical miles off Gaza shores, the Ha'aretz daily reported on Sunday.
Israeli occupation on the Palestinian territories must end in order to achieve sustainable peace between the two as well as in the region, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat told on Sunday.
Rockets were fired on Friday morning from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel after a 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas-led militants ended.
Despite a high civilian death toll in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will expand its military operation against Hamas, as the first Israeli civilian since the operation began was killed during Hamas' continuous rocket attacks on Israeli soil.
Though Israel's air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip has claimed the lives of almost 800 Palestinian civilians by Thursday night, the international efforts to broker a ceasefire still have hardly showed any signs of substantial progress.
A new Israeli war jets airstrike on western Gaza city killed on Wednesday four Palestinian children and wounded ten others while they were on the beach of Gaza, medics and witnesses said.
Palestinian medical sources said that 70 Palestinians have been killed on Tuesday in a series of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll to 631 since Israel started its offensive on the Hamas-ruled territory on July 8, health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qedra said.
The Gaza Strip witnessed the bloodiest day on Sunday since Israel launched its offensive there nearly two weeks ago, as the death toll passed 100 in a single day after Israeli artillery bombing on the most densely populated neighborhood of Sheja'eya in eastern Gaza city.
For the first time, the Consulate General of Israel in Hong Kong will take part in the Hong Kong Book Fair, to be held from July 16 to 22 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, said the spokesperson of the Consulate General on Monday.
The nephew of Hamas movement's top leader in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haneya was killed together with five Palestinians in an Israeli air strike on northern Gaza city on Saturday afternoon, officials said.
Fresh salvos of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip sent Israelis sprinting for bomb shelters across the country on Thursday as Israel's military offensive on the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave entered its third day.
Seven Palestinian civilians were killed early on Thursday in a fresh Israeli airstrike on houses in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, medics and security officials said.
Israeli war jets launched a large- scale offensive on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday with more than 100 airstrikes on militant targets, killing 23 Palestinians and wounding more than 90, medics and security officials said.
Israeli authorities arrested several Jewish suspects over the gruesome murder of a Palestinian teenager last week in east Jerusalem, the police and the Israeli Shin Bet Security Agency said.
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