Israel says it has foiled a Palestinian assassination plot against its prime minister. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the incident is putting further strain on the peace process.

Palestinian student Khaled al-Mudallal arrived home to Gaza on a mission to marry his fiancee Duaa then spirit her back to Britain where he would complete his university degree.

A Palestinian teenager has been killed in an Israeli ground operation in central Gaza, local TV said Thursday. According to Palestinian witnesses, the boy had been throwing stones at Israeli tanks when he was hit by shrapnel, and then run over. Two civilians and two Hamas militants are also reported to have been injured.

Another group of Palestinians awaiting the opening of the Rafah border crossing in Egypt returned Tuesday to Gaza via Israel. However, of 527 Palestinians who left Rafah Monday, only 300 were permitted to cross Israel.

Another 527 Palestinians awaiting the opening of the Rafah border crossing in Egypt have left for Gaza via Israel, the MENA news agency reported Monday. The first group of 100 Palestinians arrived in the Gaza Strip Sunday evening.

The European Union said Monday it will resume direct aid payments to the new Palestinian government of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in the West Bank.

The United Nations refugee agency said today it is "highly concerned" over living conditions for hundreds of Palestinians who fled their homes in Baghdad to a camp near Iraq's Syrian border, which has no healthcare and is vulnerable to a harsh climate.

The Foreign Ministry of Netherlands said Tuesday that Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh would not be granted a visa to it's country to attend a conference on the Palestinian refugee issue.

Israeli police have removed about 400 Jewish settlers from a former West Bank settlement. VOA's Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem, the settlement had been abandoned nearly two years ago as part of the Gaza disengagement plan. Israeli riot police dragged defiant settlers from the Homesh outpost ending a three-day standoff between the settlers and the Israeli government.