The UN Security Council on Tuesday "expressed their profound outrage at and condemned in the strongest terms" the killing of three Israeli teenagers, whose bodies were discovered near the city of Hebron on June 30, underling "the need to bring perpetrators of these acts to justice. "
An Israeli warplane launched airstrikes on seven military sites in Gaza late Tuesday in response to five rockets attacks from Gaza, the Israeli army said.
Six Palestinians were injured early Friday in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, medical sources and eyewitnesses said.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday that he prefers to face another round of elections rather than release Israeli Arab prisoners amid Kerry's outline.
The White House said Tuesday that President Barack Obama had not made a decision to release Jonathan Pollard, the convicted American-Israeli spy, a move deemed as part of the ongoing deliberations to salvage the faltering Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned on Thursday both Israel's air strikes against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and the rockets fired by Gaza militants to Israel.
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian civilian in the West Bank on Tuesday morning, triggering widespread condemnation from Palestinian leaders, as a sharp uptick in violence between Israel and the Palestinians has killed at least six people in the West Bank and Gaza in the last 24 hours, officials said.
With the clock ticking down on United States Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to complete a framework for a peace-agreement, Israelis and Palestinians are doing their best to stake their claims and to criticize Kerry.
Two rockets fell on Monday evening in the vicinity near Israel's southern city of Eilat, Eilat's police confirmed to Xinhua.
Several explosions were heard in the vicinity of Israel's southern city of Eilat, an Israeli police spokesperson told Xinhua on Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Thursday the European Union (EU) as "hypocrisy" after four European states summoned Israeli ambassadors to their countries over Israel's recent construction plan for 1,400 new housing units in the West Bank and east Jerusalem settlement, local media reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday postponed a planned announcement of more than 1,000 new housing units in the settlements until after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to the region, the Ha'aretz daily reported.
Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners early Tuesday, as part of a U.S.-brokered agreement to resume direct peace talks between the two sides.
The United States is pressuring Israeli officials not to announce the construction of new West Bank settlements following the upcoming release of more Palestinian prisoners on Dec. 29.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet in Ramallah on Thursday to discuss the peace process and security concerns, a senior Palestinian source said on Tuesday.
The Israeli Supreme Court rejected an appeal by an al-Qaida operative against his detention without any trial, a Court Authority statement revealed Tuesday.
Israeli border forces shot dead a Palestinian at a checkpoint in the West Bank on Thursday evening, an Israeli military spokesperson confirmed to Xinhua.