Hamas forces carried out a brutal campaign of abductions, torture and unlawful killings against Palestinians accused of “collaborating” with Israel and others during Israel’s military offensive against Gaza in July and August 2014, according to a new report by Amnesty International.

The Israeli air force has carried out four strikes on targets in the besieged Gaza Strip hours after a cross-border rocket landed in the city of Ashdod.

Gaza rulers tell Israel and other factions in the coastal territory that it they are not interested in sustained violence.

A senior Hamas official says he is moving to the Gaza Strip for good, underscoring the gradual shift of the Islamic militant movement’s power base from exile to the Palestinian territory.

“The Egyptian court’s death sentence ruling against ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, along with some Muslim Brotherhood leaders and Hamas members, has destabilized already fragile relations between Hamas and Cairo,” writes Adnan Abu Amer.

A new website is publicizing the identities of pro-Palestinian student activists to prevent them from getting jobs after they graduate from college. But the website is keeping its own backers’ identity a secret.

I was able to count 37 soldiers. At least 37. One after another, each with his own weapon and combat vest, they climb up to roof the Abu Haya family’s home — located in the section of Hebron under direct Israeli military control. Why? It’s unclear.

The villages of a-Sheikh Sa’ed and a-Sawahrah a-Sharqiyah have been artificially cut off from East Jerusalem by an eight-meter-high wall.

On Monday, 25 May 2015, representatives of the Civil Administration (CA) came to the Palestinian community of Ibziq in the Jordan Valley and told four families the military would be holding maneuvers in the area near their homes the following day. They ordered the four families to evacuate their homes for the whole of the next day – from 6:00 A.M. to midnight. The families number a total of 19 people, including five minors.

On a hilltop to the west of Bethlehem a plot of land has become a symbol of Palestinian steadfastness in the face of Israel’s settlement policy.

“Israel’s coalition government is a shaky mess. But Bibi’s wheeling and dealing have cemented his hold on power,” writes Neri Zilber.

Netanyahu, who doesn’t want to fire Begin, is looking to either expand the government further or appoint Minister Akunis as Israel’s UN envoy, making room in the government for Begin.

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a meeting at the Knesset late Monday night that his faction would remain outside the government.

In a meeting of his party’s faction on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called upon Likud MKs to maintain the current system of electing the parties candidates for the Knesset.