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The Israeli military has cordoned off areas where a high-profile prisoners' swap with Hamas in Gaza is expected to take place, reported dpa.
In a statement Monday, the military said the area around the Ketziot prison, where most of the prisoners are awaiting the transfer, and the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Egypt, have been declared "closed military zones."
Other sensitive border crossings have also been closed.
Israeli forces on Tuesday demolished a mosque in the village of Khirbet Yarza in the northern West Bank, a local official said Ma`an reported
Head of Al-Malha village council Aref Daraghma told Ma'an that Israeli bulldozers and civil administration officials demolished the mosque, which is less than 60 square meters.
This is the third time in seven months that the mosque has been demolished, Daraghma said.
In addition to the mosque, several Bedouin structures were demolished on the pretext that they were built without permits, he added.
Israel wants to expedite a plan to protect passenger planes against shoulder-launched rockets, Israeli media reported Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet convened to discuss the issue and voted for the plan late Sunday, DPA reported.
Netanyahu's spokesman, Mark Regev, could not give details. A Defence Ministry spokeswoman was also not immediately able to give more information.
But Israel Radio, quoting an anonymous official, reported that all Israeli passenger planes will be equipped "soon" with a system that can divert rockets launched at them.
Israeli jets carried out at least three attacks in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, targeting militants who had fired rockets at Israel, the military said, DPA reported.
Military sources reported a first strike which killed an Islamic Jihad combatant.
Shortly after that strike, two rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel.
A statement by the Israeli military said the air force then carried out two further air attacks aimed at those who had fired the rockets and that the targets had been hit.
Palestinian militant factions in the Gaza Strip have reached "informal and indirect" understandings with Israel on ending the latest escalation, a Hamas official said Monday, DPA reported.
The understandings were reached via Egyptian mediation, Ghazi Hamad, Deputy Foreign Minister for the Hamas administration in the Strip, said.
The radical Popular Resistance Committees, which often act independently of the other Gaza militias, also announced a temporary halt to its rocket fire.
Israeli aircraft bombed seven targets in the Gaza Strip overnight, including what a military spokesman described as a weapons-manufacturing facility, an Israeli statement said early Friday.
Unconfirmed reports from Gaza said one person was killed, DPA reported.
The Israeli airstrikes came in response to a series of well-coordinated attacks in southern Israel Thursday when a group of militants shot up Israeli vehicles near the border with Egypt and then fled.
At least seven Israelis were killed, and dozens of soldiers and civilians injured Thursday afternoon, in a series of assaults by unknown attackers in southern Israel, along the border with Egypt near the Red Sea port city of Eilat, dpa reported.
Four of the Israeli causalities had been traveling in a private vehicle, initial reports said.
Senior Israel military officials are considering what one termed "confidence-building measures," to convince Palestinian leaders not to continue with their planned statehood bid at the UN General Assembly next month, including allowing the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) security services in the West Bank to procure more weapons, Xinhua reported.
The arms would be brought in via Jordan, according to the recommendations, which were listed in a brief that has been forwarded to the government, the Ynet news reported Wednesday.
Israeli forces launched an airstrike early Thursday against two Gaza city training facilities operated by the armed wing of the Islamist militant movement Hamas, witnesses and officials said, dpa reported.
No casualties were reported.
Israeli F-16 jets flew shortly after midnight over the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, firing a missile at each of the two training camps of the al-Qassam Brigade in the east and west of the city, respectively, witnesses said.
Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinians at Qalandia refugee camp, north of Jerusalem, early Monday morning, medical officials and witnesses said, DPA reported.
Witnesses and the Israeli military said the incident occurred as soldiers entered the camp shortly after midnight on a "search and arrest" operation. Their entry into the camp sparked rioting, with residents throwing rocks and bottles at them.
