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One month after Israel was wracked by Hamas attacks, life has been upended for both the Palestinians and Israel after it launched a war of reprisal in the Gaza Strip."The change wrought by the war is total: in losses of life and in damage, in anxieties, in the country's agenda and in the total upending of old political conventions from every possible aspect."

Gaza – a territory of 2.4 million people – has been transformed into an apocalyptic battleground by air strikes and ground assaults after Israel vowed to eradicate Hamas.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: One month after Israel was wracked by Hamas attacks, life has been upended for both the...

One month after Israel was wracked by Hamas attacks, life has been upended for both the Palestinians and Israel after it launched a war of reprisal in the Gaza Strip.

Mass protests and strikes rocked Israel this week in the face of the hard-right government's decision to push through a controversial legal reform weakening the powers of the Supreme Court.Opposition leaders and protesters, who have taken to the streets in their tens of thousands every week since January, are sceptical of the government's sincerity in holding talks.

Mass protests and strikes rocked Israel this week in the face of the hard-right government's decision to push through a controversial legal reform weakening the powers of the Supreme Court.

Mass protests and strikes rocked Israel this week in the face of the hard-right governments decision to push through a controversial legal reform weakening the powers of the Supreme Court.

Israel's top court ruled Wednesday that a senior member of premier Benjamin Netanyahu's newly formed government cannot serve as minister due to a recent tax evasion conviction. Lawmakers last month passed legislation that allows anyone convicted of offences but not given a custodial sentence to serve as a minister.