Channel 2 reports sides negotiating easing of Gaza blockade, including opening of Rafah crossing to construction materials.

Hundreds of Palestinians throw rocks, Molotov cocktails at IDF soldiers near Ofer security prison in support of hunger strikers.

Fireballs crash to Earth, smashing windows and setting off car alarms; officials say around 1,000 hurt, mostly from broken glass.

“We heard a huge blast, everybody started running, there was panic,” said Rabbi Meir Kirsch.

Gov't deny official meetings after Hamas legislators arrive in first visit to EU country since its terrorist blacklisting in 2003.

-Australian media reported the case of so-called ''Prisoner X'', an Australian native named Ben Zygier, also known as Ben Alon in Israel, allegedly held in complete isolation inside one of Israel's most heavily guarded prisons near Tel Aviv and who was found hanged in his high-security cell in late 2010.

Leading criminal attorney Avigdor Feldman says that ''Prisoner X'' identified himself as Melbourne-native Zygier, something which Israel has yet to confirm.

Chuck Hagel moved one step closer to appointment as the next US Defence Secretary Tuesday, after a narrow majority of votes at a crucial Senate Armed Service Committee session passed the process on to full consideration by the Senate executive session Thursday to be followed by a full vote by the floor.

The Anti-Defamation League came out storming defence of convicted anti-Semitic designer John Galliano Wednesday proclaiming the disgraced former Christian Dior head an “atoned” character, following a US daily report featuring an image of him in New York apparently mimicking traditional Hasidic ultra Orthodox Jewish dress.

Polish MEP Michał Tomasz Kaminski called on EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to step up Europe’s efforts to designate Hezbollah a terrorist organisation after last week’s Bulgarian’s report that the Lebanese group was behind the terrort attack on Israeli tourists in Burgas in July 2012.