Peter Lerner

With tanks massed at the gates of Gaza's largest hospital, US President Joe Biden pressed Israeli allies to protect civilians, who on Tuesday were trapped inside with dwindling supplies of fuel and water.

Israeli forces shot dead at least two Palestinians when clashes erupted during an operation Nov. 16 to destroy the West Bank home of a Palestinian accused of killing an Israeli hiker, the army said.

Palestinian hospital sources reported the death of two Palestinians, while the Israeli military said three were shot in an exchange of fire at Qalandiya.    

Suspected Jewish extremists set fire to a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank on July 31, killing an 18-month-old baby and seriously injuring several other family members, an act that Israel's prime minister described as terrorism. 

Israel's killing of four Palestinian boys in an air strike on a Gaza beach during the 2014 war was a case of mistaken identity that does not warrant criminal charges, the military says. 

The Israeli air force carried out four strikes on militant targets in the Gaza Strip early May 27, Palestinian eyewitnesses said, hours after a cross-border rocket attack on the Jewish state.

Israel carried out overnight raids against Syrian army targets, the military said Jan. 28, saying Damascus was responsible for rocket fire that hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
      
"Earlier today (Tuesday), rockets hit the Golan Heights," the Israel Defence Forces said.
      

A three-day humanitarian truce in Gaza collapsed only hours after it began Aug.1  amid a deadly new wave of violence and the apparent capture by Hamas of an Israeli soldier.

Intensive shelling killed dozens of people in southern Gaza hours into the short-lived truce, with Hamas accusing Israel of breaking the ceasefire and the Jewish state saying it was responding to rocket fire.

Israeli marines mounted a first ground assault on Gaza early July 13, further escalating a deadly six-day offensive hours after the U.N. Security Council unanimously called for a ceasefire.

Israeli forces found the bodies of three missing teenagers in the occupied West Bank on June 30 after a nearly three-week-long search and a sweep against the Islamist Hamas group that Israel says abducted them.