The US State Department has denied claims that US Secretary of State John Kerry made statements on Thursday suggesting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was fueling the spread of Islamic terror in the Middle East.

Will the EU reassess its relations with Israel to express its frustration over the question of settlement construction in the West Bank ?

In her remarks to the press, the State Department's deputy spokesperson, Marie Harf, said that Kerry's remarks were taken out of context ''for political reasons.''

Major issues remain regarding Iran’s nuclear programme even if some headway was made, reports said after a meeting Thursday in Vienna between US Secretary of State John Kerry, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Zarif and European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

Italian Member of the European Parliament Fulvio Martusciello has been elected President of Parliament’s Delegation for relations with Israel.

The Israeli foreign ministry has confirmed reports that three Israeli trekkers were among 29 people killed in Nepal.

The first truck-loads of cement and steel, earmarked for the rebuilding of homes in the Gaza Strip in the wake of Operation Protective Edge, entered the Strip from Israel via the Kerem Shalom border crossing.
Keren Shlom is the sole commercial crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

Two days after the British parliament voted a motion to recognize a Palestinian state, France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that Paris should recognize a Palestinian state only if doing so would help achieve peace, not as a symbolic gesture.

The British parliament voted Monday in favor of a motion, tabled by a Labour MP, to recognize the state of Palestine, in a majority vote of 274-12.

The foreign ministers of 30 countries attended in Cairo a Gaza reconstruction donors conference on Sunday but Israel was not represented, based on a silent understanding between the Prime Minister’s Office and the Egyptian presidency.