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In late December 2008, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert authorised Operation Cast Lead in response to rocket attacks from Hamas-controlled territory in Gaza.

The UN security council has voted to adopt a resolution endorsing US president Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza. However, while the resolution references a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, the road to such an outcome is far from determined.

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Explosions heard as Russia targets western Ukrainian cities of Lviv and Ternopil

Hopefully, peace will finally prevail.

Over the years, a charge that has repeatedly been levelled at the state of Israel is that is operates an “apartheid state”. And it’s easy to see why Israel’s opponents return to this argument.

Varsen Aghabekian Shahin backs resolution, while Hamas rejects idea of international force inside territory

Israel's rescue service reports an Israeli has been killed and three wounded in a ramming and stabbing attack at a busy West Bank intersection

UN logs 260 attacks in October alone, its highest monthly tally. Plus, protests in North Carolina’s Charlotte after aggressive immigration arrests

The EU should be represented on US President Donald Trump’s transitional body for Gaza, Dubravka Šuica, the EU’s Commissioner for the Mediterranean, has told Euronews.

ANALYSIS: Trump heralded the UN’s decision to back his 20-point Gaza plan as a preface to ‘peace all over the world’, but the Herculean task of trying to bring about a just and practicable solution in the Middle East remains as difficult as ever, writes chief international correspondent Bel Trew