Gaza City News

Ismail al-Thawabta, Director-General of the Hamas Government Media Office said that rescue crews have recovered 70 bodies from the Tal al-Hawa area, and at least 50 people remain missing, according to al-Thawabta.

Israel has chosen not to participate in Cairo talks addressing the ceasefire and hostage release. 

ISRAEL BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made a big claim regarding the Israel-Hamas war. He said that the Israeli army has completely surrounded Gaza city. And now moving rapidly towards Al Shifa city.

Israeli aircraft pounded over a dozen militant targets in Gaza, the army said today, after Palestinian projectile fire shattered a ceasefire reached just days ago after the worst flare-up since a 2014 war.

The aircraft targeted a "military compound belonging to the terrorist organisation Hamas," a statement from the army read.

The head of Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip was injured Friday when his car blew up in an attack in the Nusseirat refugee camp, Gaza security sources said.

The Palestinian Authority had been paying for some electricity to be delivered to Gaza since 2007, but in recent months has reduced the amount.

A military court in Gaza on Monday held the first hearing of three men accused of assassinating a Hamas military leader, naming the chief suspect for the first time.

Israel and Hamas have fought three wars since 2008.

The UN Security Council yesterday demanded that Israel halt settlements in Palestinian territory, after the US refrained from vetoing the resolution condemning its closest Middle East ally.

Israeli warplanes launched several raids on Wednesday in the Gaza Strip after a day of tensions along the border with Israel, said the interior ministry in the Palestinian territory.

Two Palestinians opened fire on Israeli police just outside Jerusalem`s old city walls before being shot dead by officers, police told AFP.

The collapse of a tunnel in the Gaza Strip has killed two militants from Hamas's armed wing, officials said today, as concern grows in Israel over the rebuilding of tunnels that can be used for attacks.

Thousands of Palestinians are lining up on Thursday at the Rafah crossing in hopes of leaving the isolated enclave.

Two Palestinian died after being shot by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip on Friday, the enclave's health ministry said, the latest such incidents in more than two weeks of clashes and attacks.

Israeli air raids have hit the Gaza Strip in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave that was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defence system, officials said Wednesday.