Israeli military

Israel appeared to hold off on a threatened escalation of its week-old Gaza Strip barrage on July 14 despite having balked at Western calls for a ceasefire with an equally defiant Hamas.
   

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has strongly condemned Israeli airstrikes against Palestinians, criticizing the international community’s silence over the attacks that have so far claimed the lives of 80 people.

Israel launched a series of air strikes on Gaza early on July 7 to quell Hamas rocket fire, and the Islamist group's armed wing said seven of its gunmen were killed, making it the deadliest day for Hamas since a 2012 cross-border war with the Jewish state.
 

Israeli aircraft attacked 10 sites used by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday in response to persistent rocket strikes from the enclave, the Israeli military said.