Israeli soldiers and Palestinian former detainees say troops systematically force Gazans to go into buildings and tunnels to check for bombs and gunmen.

Israel’s renewed effort to “conquer” the strip has forced 300,000 starving Palestinians to flee south in just 48 hours.

Details are murky and no final agreement has been reached, but the plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyan leadership.

Palestinians in the village of Bruqin in the northern West Bank said that Israeli settlers attacked them, burning cars and damaging houses.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is days away from implementing a new aid system in Gaza and plans to create a 'sterile zone' there, free of Hamas.

Nakba Day, which marks the mass displacement of Palestinians upon Israel's independence, took on special resonance this year.

Israel has agreed to allow some food into Gaza before a newly approved mechanism for aid deliveries is up and running later this month, the head of the newly established Gaza Humanitarian Foundation told CNN.

Palestinians marked Nakba day on Thursday, commemorating the loss of their land after the 1948 war at the birth of the state of Israel, as Israeli military operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank have again displaced hundreds of thousands.

An Israeli center-left opposition party leader and former general sparked an outcry this week when he made rare criticism of the toll of the war on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.