Israeli army

An Egyptian source and a senior Islamic Jihad official told AFP that a ceasefire came into effect early on Thursday.
The "ceasefire agreement comes as a result of Egypt's efforts" and has been endorsed by "Palestinian factions including Islamic Jihad", said the top Egyptian official.
An Islamic Jihad source confirmed the agreement to AFP.

Twelve young Israelis, all males in their late teens, are heading to court on Thursday following accusations by a young British woman who says she was a victim of gang rape at a hotel in Ayia Napa.

The embassy requested an explanation regarding "this unfortunate move."

Israel has launched what it calls "an operation to expose and neutralise" tunnels between Lebanon and Israel allegedly dug by armed group Hezbollah, reported Al Jazeera. 

The operation was announced by the Israeli military on Twitter on Tuesday. 

Authorities said on Thursday that they have identified a leading member of the Rouvikonas anti-establishment group who entered the premises last Tuesday of the Foreign Ministry building in Athens.

Police said they found the suspect's motorbike near the building and identified him as the author of a threatening statement posted by the group after the assault. 

The anarchist group Rouvikonas struck again early on Tuesday when some of its members scaled the gates of the Foreign Ministry in central Athens and left a bag containing a Palestinian flag and photographs of people killed in recent clashes with the Israeli army.

Members of the self-styled anarchist group Rouvikonas scaled the gates of a Foreign Ministry building in Athens on Tuesday morning and left a bag containing a Palestinian flag and photographs of people killed in recent clashes with the Israeli army.

Ambassadors and members of the Palestinian community of Romania on Tuesday signed a condolence book opened at the Embassy of Palestine in Bucharest, in memory of the Palestinians killed on May 14 in the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces.

Greece's ruling SYRIZA party on Tuesday appeared conflicted during a debate in Parliament over events in Gaza on Monday, where dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire.

Lawmakers struggled to take into account diplomatic exigencies and at the same time satisfy SYRIZA voters.

The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army fire on the Gaza border in mass protests against the U.S. decision to move its Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has risen to seven as more than 100 persons were also wounded, Gaza’s Health Ministry said on May 14.