The Israeli military will not seek any indictments over the killing of four Palestinian children on the beach in Gaza last summer, the Military Advocate General announced on Thursday. The four children were killed in a July 16 airstrike that targeted them while they played on a Gaza beach adjacent to where a sizable foreign press contingent was staying.

The father of one of four Palestinian children killed on a Gaza beach during last summer’s Hamas-Israel war said Friday he was outraged by the announcement from the Israeli military that it was closing its internal inquiry into the incident without any indictments.

In the ruined streets of Gaza, children play among piles of broken concrete and twisted steel, while their parents live out of tents erected between the walls of their destroyed homes, pockmarked by the shrapnel from exploding shells.

One year after the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenage boys in the West Bank, a clearer picture has emerged of what happened that night, as well as the ensuing search for both the boys and the killers.

A rocket was shot from Gaza toward southern Israel Thursday night, the latest apparent attack amid an uptick in missile fire.

The military arm of terror group Hamas warned recently that continued Israeli attacks against its military positions in the Gaza Stip could lead to a wider conflict, in the first threat of its kind since a ceasefire agreement was reached following last year’s Operation Protective Edge.

“Cairo has an adversarial relationship with Hamas, but Israeli government should not be lulled into thinking that means Egypt is on Israel’s side,” writes Zack Gold.

Nasser Nawaj’ah held Laith’s hand as, beside me, they walked down the dirt and pebble path of Old Susya. Nasser is 33 years old, his son six. “Why did they take our home?” the little boy asked.

The High Court of Justice has dismissed a Palestinian petition that sought to end what it called Israel’s discriminatory housing policies in the West Bank and would have handed local planning rights to the Palestinians. The ruling, handed down Tuesday, was in response to a petition filed by the West Bank village of Ad-Deirat, the Israeli NGO Rabbis for Human Rights and another three organizations.

Nearly seven decades of land discrimination brought in its wake dreadful poverty, illegal construction and an embittered Arab population. A new policy seems to be in the making.

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside Beersheba’s government offices Thursday to demonstrate against the impending demolition of the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran and its replacement with a Jewish town.

It is now 48 years since the Six-Day War, a short military campaign with long-term consequences
for Israel and the Palestinians. Writer Nir Baram spent a year meeting people on both sides of the Green Line.

In an interview with Al-Monitor, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov stressed the UN’s commitment to supporting peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.

“You say that Palestinians are to blame for failing to stop terror, for not entering negotiations, for not signing a peace treaty with Israel. I cannot buy this argument,” writes Gil Rimon. “Not anymore. Not after 48 years.”

Norwegian insurance giant KLP Kapitalforvaltning has excluded two international building material companies from its investment portfolio because of their operations in the West Bank.

Orange Chairman and CEO Stephane Richard met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu on Friday morning in the prime minister’s office. Richard requested the meeting in order to apologize and clarify the company’s position regarding Israel, after his statements about wanting to end business ties with Israel created a major controversy.

Khader Adnan, who became the symbol of Palestinian administrative detainees after refusing food for 66 days in 2011, is once again on hunger strike. Adnan’s wife: ‘He has no other choice. He is very strong and won’t budge until he is free.’

The Governor for Palestine at the Islamic Development Bank, Mohammad Shtayyeh, called on member states to boycott Israel, and link the world’s economic interests with the behaviour of Israel towards the Palestinian people.

Finance minister proposes to convert apartments used for offices into residential dwellings, re-zone public land to permit home building and raise tax on owning more than one home.

“Media accusations against newly elected Knesset member Oren Hazan did not prompt Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sanction him, as he needs Hazan’s support in the upcoming Likud Party central committee meeting,” writes Mazal Mualem.