US President is said to have been left furious after Israeli forces bombed a Catholic church in the Gaza Strip, killing three people and wounding at least 10.

An Israeli ultra-Orthodox party has announced plans to leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government.

Secret meetings, altered records, ignored intelligence: the inside story of the prime minister’s political calculations since Oct. 7.

An aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces indictment on security charges pending a hearing, Israel's attorney general has said, for allegedly leaking top secret military information during Israel's war in Gaza.

Unlike the United Torah Judaism (UTJ), the Shas party said on Wednesday it would remain within Netanyahu-led coalition for now, giving the government more time to resolve a thorny dispute over military conscription.

Judges at the International Criminal Court rejected Israel's request to withdraw arrest warrants against its prime minister and former defence minister while the ICC reviews Israeli challenges to its jurisdiction over the conduct of the Gaza war.

The prime minister will have to face the electorate again sometime soon. He intends to do so on his own terms, with as much authority as possible centered in his own hands

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned that the proposed “humanitarian city” in Gaza would amount to a concentration camp and risk ethnic cleansing. The plan, pushed by Defence Minister Israel Katz, has sparked fierce criticism and threatens to derail Israel-Hamas truce efforts.