The controversial U.N. agency UNRWA is fending off criticism from new allegations that more of its employees are Hamas terrorists who are seeking to destroy the Jewish state.

Khaled Meshal, one of Hamas’s most senior officials, said in an interview that the militant group expects to play a decisive role in the enclave when the war is over.

Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed 16 people in the Gaza Strip, including five women and four children

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that returning residents evacuated from Israel's north due to cross-border fighting with Hezbollah is now an official war goal.

An attack on a school run by the United Nations refugee agency has been condemned - but Israel says it was being used as a command centre by Hamas. Meanwhile, Gaza's economy is being described by the UN as being 'in ruins' while the Palestinian Authority's finances are 'in free fall'.

The US ambassador to the United Nations on Monday openly accused Israel of attacking innocents, telling a meeting of the bloc’s Security Council that

Hamas claims to have enough resources to keep fighting indefinitely.