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The rising tensions along Israel’s front with Gaza came as fighting in the occupied West Bank surged to levels unseen in two decades

The former chief of justice returns to the public arena to accuse the executive of trying to ‘control the entire judicial system to promote an ideology that is against equal rights’

The U.S. historian of Palestinian descent, who is an expert on the Middle East, believes the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have lost ‘credibility’ in the occupied territories and are no longer ‘engaged’ in the resistance movement

The tenuous cease-fire appeared to take effect just after 10 p.m., with a last-minute burst of rocket fire and Israeli airstrikes stretching several minutes past the deadline announced by Egypt

Palestinian militants fired hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Wednesday, while Israel has pressed with a series of airstrikes which have already killed 21 Palestinians

Although the Israeli military was quick to emphasize that its warplanes struck sites belonging to only Palestinian militant groups, the barrage risks drawing in Israel’s bitter foe Hezbollah