After failing to secure the necessary support for a United Nations resolution to establish an independent Palestinian state, Palestine has joined the International Criminal Court with the goal of having Israelis arrested and tried for war crimes, despite the fact that a number of Palestinians may soon also find themselves in the court's crosshairs.
New violence in Palestine and Israel could result in the termination of a fragile ceasefire that barely brought to end a summer of fighting.
The French government has voted to recognize Palestine, becoming the fifth Western European nation to do so after Israel's invasion of Gaza during the summer.
The Israeli government has approved the construction of 78 new structures in Palestinian territory, despite the fact that the international community, including the United States, believes such settlements are illegal under international law.
Two separate lone wolf attacks in Israel on the same day, part of a wave of violence perpetrated by single individuals, highlight the tensions in Israeli and Palestinian society since the cessation of open hostilities between Palestine and Israel over the summer.
Hezbollah, the militant group, used drones to bomb a building occupied by the Al-Nusra Front, an al Qaeda affiliate.
According to a report released on Tuesday by the Human Rights Watch organization, Israel unlawfully coerced almost 7,000 Eritrean and Sudanese nationals into going back to their home countries even though some might risk serious abuse by their oppressive governments.
Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement for a ceasefire to end the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and Hamas' indiscriminate firing of rockets into Israel.
After the loss of three key leaders in an Israeli airstrike, Hamas rounded up and executed 18 Palestinians accused of collaborating with the Israeli military.
Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets to bury three senior leaders of Hamas that were killed in Israeli airstrikes.
Rocket fire and airstrikes have resumed in the Gaza Strip and Israel after the collapse of a delicately negotiated ceasefire extension was reached Aug. 18.
After numerous reports of unwarranted civilian deaths and attacks on United Nations designated shelters in the Gaza Strip, Israel is denying Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch entry into the besieged territory.
The Israeli government and Gazan authorities have agreed on a five day long extension of an already in place ceasefire despite the fact that rockets landed in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon.
The Israelis and Hamas have resumed their war in the Gaza Strip after the expiration of a 72-hour ceasefire.
The month old Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip seems as though it may be coming to a close as numerous reports say that both Hamas and Israel have accepted an Egyptian negotiated peace at the same time large numbers of Israeli troops are withdrawing from Gaza.
