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Israeli prime minister tours country’s northern border with Lebanon; gunman wounded after shots fired at US embassy north of Beirut

Tamir Pardo says alleged campaign under his successor ‘sounds like Cosa Nostra-style blackmail’

British government doing everything it can to prevent assault on Rafah while civilians shelter there, says deputy foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell

University and colleagues condemn detention of law professor, the first time an academic has been held over speech related to work

It would be the first time the U.S. imposed sanctions on an Israeli military unit.

Israelis increasingly feel despair and doubt over the PM’s military campaign, says Etan Nechin, a writer based in New York and contributor to Haaretz

Foreign minister’s condemnation of Israeli PM comes as IDF says it has completed its investigation into drone strike that killed seven aid workers

The indiscriminate killing, the manmade starvation and the bombing of aid workers must bring the west to a moment of decision, says Guardian US writer Chris McGreal

The killing of foreign aid workers in Gaza has piled further pressure on Israel over its conduct of the war against Hamas, renewing scrutiny of how the Israeli army selects its targets in an ongoing military campaign that has devastated most of the Gaza Strip and killed or maimed tens…