Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at a ceremony held Thursday to honour the memory of those who fell in the July 2014 Operation Protective Edge that was carried out against the Hamas terror organization in Gaza.
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that it is investigating the circumstances of a Palestinian journalist being hit by a rubber bullet during a clash in Ramallah on Thursday.
Palestinian Armed Forces have blamed Israel for the deaths of five of its men in an explosion in eastern Lebanon, close to the Syrian border on Wednesday, Al Jazeera reported.
Several Palestinians were hurt after Israeli police opened fire and used tear gas on them while they were participating in a protest on Gaza Strip's eastern border with Israel, reported Al Jazeera.
This development comes amidst the ongoing confrontation between Israel and Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip and aims to unite Iranian proxies in the region.
The five days of intensive warfare saw over 1,200 rockets fired towards Israel as the Israeli military responded by targeting Islamic Jihad militants, command centres, rocket launchers, and capabilities in the Palestinian enclave, read a report published in The Times of Israel.
Galili, a 64-year-old therapist and social worker was forced to evacuate her home in Kibbutz Nirim this week as Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.
Anticipating a barrage of Palestinian rocket fire, which began on Wednesday, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant approved the evacuation plan, called "Gust of Wind," in anticipation of retaliatory rocket fire from terrorist factions in Gaza.
Amid the escalation of violence in the region and the death of at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza and one Israeli, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) fired rockets at Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on Friday, CNN reported.
The strike near Gaza City that killed Iyad al-Hassani, along with another man the military said was his assistant, dealt yet another blow to the terror group and further dampened hopes for a ceasefire.