Attacks have continued in parts of Jerusalem only hours after Israeli forces launched a major security operation in Arab areas of the city.

Israeli forces have begun a major security operation in Arab areas of occupied East Jerusalem, after a surge in attacks by Palestinians.

Israel says its jets have hit two targets in the Gaza Strip, which killed a woman and her young daughter in a nearby house.

Two Israelis have been killed and three injured in separate attacks in Jerusalem by Palestinians who were then shot dead by police.

Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound for a third straight day on Tuesday.

A Palestinian woman has died of injuries she sustained during an arson attack on her home in the West Bank that killed her husband and infant son.

Bangladesh expresses deep condolences and sympathies to the victims of arson attack committed by the Israeli settlers on a Palestinian house that burnt an infant to death and injured his parents and four-year-old brother.

A United Nations investigation has found “serious violations of international humanitarian law” by both Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip during their bloody battle last summer.

The UN Security Council has demanded humanitarian access to the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus.

Around 2,000 people have been evacuated from the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus after the Islamic State group seized large parts of it, a Palestinian official told AFP.

The Palestinians have formally joined the International Criminal Court (ICC), a key step towards being able to pursue Israelis for alleged war crimes.

NETANYAHU'S highly contested victory brings to the fore some very disturbing realities in the Palestine-Israel relations.

Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the military and a Palestinian hospital