Gaza strip
Rich heritage buried under impoverished Gaza Strip
In the Gaza Strip, ruled by Hamas and repeatedly ravaged by war, people are more familiar with burying the dead than digging up their heritage.
The Israeli military said it carried out air strikes against four weapons sites and that it had reinforced its Gaza division with additional troops.
Kamel was set to meet with Palestinian leadership, Palestinian civil affairs minister Hussein al-Sheikh said on Twitter, following the truce on 21 May that ended 11 days of deadly exchange of fire between Israel and armed Palestinian groups.
The Egypt-brokered truce halted Israeli airstrikes on the crowded Palestinian territory and rockets fired by Palestinian armed groups at Israel since 10 May.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said "riots broke out" at the Al-Aqsa esplanade which is Islam's third holiest site and also revered by Jews, who call it the Temple Mount.
Israel's intense bombing campaign has killed 213 Palestinians, including 61 children, and wounded more than 1,400 people in Gaza. The death toll on the Israeli side rose to 12 when a volley of rockets Hamas fired at the southern Eshkol region killed two Thai nationals working in a factory and wounded several others.
Here’s a recap of events leading up to and since violence escalated on 10 May with heavy military exchanges of fire.
Overnight Sunday to Monday, Israel launched dozens of strikes in the space of a few minutes across the crowded coastal Palestinian enclave controlled by Islamist group Hamas, according to AFP journalists at the scene.
Ten members of a single family -- eight children and two women -- were killed when a three-storey building in Shati refugee camp collapsed following an Israel strike.
Rafah is the only passage to the outside world for Gaza - a densely populated enclave of around two million Palestinians, half of whom live below the poverty line - that is not controlled by Israel.
The strikes came as visiting Egyptian security officials strove to defuse the latest uptick in violence, a Hamas source said.
Israeli media reported that more than 30 fires were set around border communities by balloons carrying incendiary devices launched from Gaza.
It said a weapons manufacturing site and underground infrastructure were among the sites targeted.
The army said that Friday night's rocket launch at southern Israel was the first since 12 July.
Both the Erez crossing for people and Kerem Shalom crossing for goods had been closed on 4 May, when Gaza rulers Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.
The tiny, densely populated enclave's health ministry said among those killed on Sunday were a pregnant woman and a four-month-old baby. The Israeli military declined to comment on the claim.
Israel said around 50 rockets were fired from the Palestinian enclave and its air defence systems intercepted dozens of them.
Around 30 strikes targeted positions held by the military wing of Hamas, which governs Gaza, and their ally Islamic Jihad, causing significant damage, a Gazan security source told AFP.
Donald Trump is expected to unveil his long-awaited plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace in the coming months.