At least two teenagers in the Gaza Strip have been killed and more than 30 other people have been injured by Israeli air raids, according to Palestinian health officials, as Israel carried out the largest daylight attack on the besieged enclave since the 2014 war.

In the aftermath of the disturbing escalation of hostilities over the weekend, and in the shadow of Israel’s newly imposed sanctions on movement of goods through Kerem Shalom, Gaza’s football enthusiasts hope to join hundreds of millions of viewers across the world in watching the highly anticipated World Cup Final.

The number of trucks carrying food into the Gaza Strip last week was the lowest it’s reached in several months.

A group of eight young Americans who are visiting Israel as part of a Birthright-Israel trip left the tour during a visit to Jerusalem’s City of David, choosing instead to conduct a solidarity visit with a Palestinian family slated for eviction from their home by the Jewish National Fund and Ir David Foundation (Elad), a right-wing organization.

On July 4, bulldozers showed up to the small Bedouin town of Khan al-Ahmar alongside a central highway in the West Bank.

A conference in East Jerusalem sponsored by the Palestinian Authority and attended by members of the Islamic Movement in Israel and of the Turkish Waqf was shut down and raided by police on Saturday by order of Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan, whose office said the event promoted “incitement” against the state of Israel.

The Israeli government plans to ease restrictions on Israeli settler’s gun ownership in the near future through legal changes that would make all Israeli citizens with firearms training eligible for a gun permit.

The Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee cleared on Sunday a bill that limits the High Court of Justice’s authority to hear petitions filed by Palestinians in the West Bank.

According to the proposed ‘Jewish Nation-State Law,’ Israel does not belong to Israeli citizens, more than 20 percent of whom are not Jewish. Instead, it is the state of the Jewish people, roughly half of whom are not even Israeli.

“The Labour Party’s new statement, which slams anti-Semitism but defends criticism of Israel, is a huge improvement over the anti-Palestinian policy that preceded it, and should be praised as such,” writes Ahmad Tibi.

Despite physical separation and internal divisions, Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line are once again talking about the future of their struggle, and the role that Palestinian citizens of Israel can play.