The U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, set up to distribute aid to Gaza as an alternative to the United Nations but which Palestinians said endangered the lives of civilians as they tried to get food, has said it will shutter operations.

Israel plans to seize parts of a major West Bank historic site and settlers have established a new outpost there, even as the country faces pressure to crack down on settler violence in the Palestinian territory.

Israeli settlers have torched and defaced a mosque in a Palestinian village in the central West Bank.

Israel says it plans to take over Gaza City in another escalation of its 22-month war with Hamas.

Israel says it plans to take over Gaza City.

Israel says it plans to take over Gaza City, the largest urban area in the territory and one that has already suffered extensive devastation in repeated Israeli raids.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hinting at wider military action in devastated Gaza even as some former army and intelligence chiefs call for an end to the war.

A woman who was nine months pregnant and on her way to the delivery room is dead after a Palestinian gunman opened fire on her car.