Intifadas

United Nations investigators said on June 22 Israel and Palestinian armed groups committed grave violations during the 2014 Gaza conflict that may amount to war crimes.

Seven Israeli soldiers were to face a disciplinary hearing on June 14 after video emerged of troops beating an unarmed Palestinian in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) decided on Thursday to suspend security cooperation with Israel, which is part of 1993 peace accords.

This move was retaliatory measure against Israel's decision to suspend the transfer of taxes to Palestinians after their application to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), the BBC reports.

The Palestinians on Dec. 11 accused Israel of "killing" a senior official who died a day earlier in a confrontation with troops during a protest march in the West Bank.
      
"After hearing the results of the post-mortem, the Palestinian government holds Israel fully responsible for the killing of Ziad Abu Ein," government spokesman Ihab Bseiso told reporters.
      

A group of 30 protesters, mostly students, were detained by police on Friday as they staged a demonstration outside the Justice Ministry in solidarity with the convicted bank robber and anarchist Nikos Romanos who is in the fourth week of a hunger strike in protest at the authorities' refusal to grant him study furloughs.

Bulgaria on Wednesday said it is deeply concerned by the escalation of tensions in Jerusalem following the brutal slaying of Israeli worshippers by two Palestinian attackers.

Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghuti has been placed in solitary confinement after publishing a letter calling for a return to "armed resistance" against Israel, a Palestinian NGO said on Nov. 12.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has warned both Israel and the international community that an Israeli offensive on the al-Aqsa Mosque may pave the way for a “new intifada,” leading to troubles that might spread across the world and not be limited to the Middle East.