Malik Lutfi contemplated which of his family's belongings to salvage in the few moments he was given while Israeli troops carried out home demolitions in the Tulkarm refugee camp where he grew up in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Aref al-Jaabari (2nd-R), former governor of Hebron and head of the Jaabari family in the area, attends a meeting with elders of the Jaabari family to deny media reports it was ready to break off from the Palestinian Authority and sign a peace deal with Israel as a separate emirate,

As talks for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip resume, Palestinians in the battered enclave say they are desperate for deal to end the war between Israel and Hamas.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he wanted peace with Palestinians but described any future independent state as a platform to destroy Israel and for that reason sovereign power of security must remain with Israel.

Former CFR President Richard Haass, Tuesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," dismissed Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hope to move Palestinians to other countries as "fanciful." RICHARD HAASS: Look,

Palestinians were quick to reject a plan proposed by Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz to relocate more than two million people in the Gaza Strip to a ‘humanitarian city’ to be built on the ruins of Rafah at the southern tip of the enclave — where people wouldn't be allowed to leave.

It was the latest instance of armed Israeli settlers carrying out violent raids against Palestinian villages in the West Bank, often with impunity.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli airstrikes killed 14 Palestinians in Gaza and another 10 were killed while seeking food aid, hospital officials in the embattled enclave told The Associated Press on Saturday, as U.S.-led ceasefire efforts appeared to gain momentum after nearly 21 months of war.