Israel said Friday that it would not bow down to international pressure to end air strikes on Gaza, whilst the US offered to help negotiate a ceasefire with Hamas, reports Reuters.

“No international pressure will prevent us from acting with all power,” he told reports Tel Aviv.

The European Union Friday, imposed sanctions on two South Sudanese military leaders for breaking ceasefire agreement, reports the Reuters.

The EU announced travel bans on South Sudanese rebel leader Peter Gadet, and Military commander of the government army, Santino Deng. 

Kurdish leaders vowed to boycott the Iraq cabinet on Thursday, demanding an apology from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, for his remarks accusing Kurdistan of harbouring ISIS fighters.

Mr Maliki made those comments whilst visiting the Kurdistan's capital Irbil on Wednesday.

The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki moon, Thursday, warned the United Nations Security Council of a serious escalation of casualties in the Israel and Gaza could only be avoided if parties worked towards a two state solution.

Over 38 people, including at least 8 children have now been killed in the Gaza strip after continuing air and sea attacks by the Israeli Defence Force.

Officials in Gaza said that six children were killed in an attack targeting Hamas activist Odeh Ahmad Mohammad Kaware, with several of his children said to have died in the assault, reported The Guardian.

The Israeli military has conducted over 440 air and naval strikes since Monday.

"Four Palestinians were killed in air strikes, including two brothers who are 12 and 13 years old in Shejaiya, while a four-year-old boy and a woman were killed in a raid on Zeitun," emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told Agence France-Presse.

The Israeli army said that the killing of 8 Palestinian civilians on Tuesday was a mistake, whilst adding that civilians protecting Hamas buildings would not be spared, reports an Israeli daily, Harretz.

An Israeli Defence Force investigation, Wednesday, found that despite prior warnings, a senior Hamas operatives family members returned to the targeted house too soon.

China called on Monday for an inclusive government in Iraq as a prompt political solution to ongoing violence.

Three Congolese witnesses of Congolese war crimes for the International Criminal Court (ICC), were deported, Sunday, despite concerns about their safety in Congo, reports NL Times.

The trio, who were held in a Congolese prison before being called to The Hague in 2011 as witnesses of war crimes, had their asylum claims rejected by Dutch authorities.

The Ukrainian authorities last weekend seized control over a number of eastern towns after ignoring calls to extend a ceasefire, reports The Guardian.

Declaring a turning point in the conflict against separatists, Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, said,

Israel’s Foreign Minister, announced Monday that he was ending his party’s alliance with the ruling bloc after the Prime Minister refused to launch a full-scale attack on Gaza, reports The Times.

A Bosnian Serb who ran illegal camps where prisoners were tortured and killed during the Bosnian Serb conflict, Friday, was charged for committing crimes against humanity, reports Agence France Presse.

Bosnia’s war crimes court sentenced Branko Vlaco to 15 years in prison for setting up and running four ‘detention centres’ in Sarajevo.

Israeli police have made several arrests in relation to the murder of Palestinian teenager Mohammad Abu Khdair.

The police said the suspects were Jewish, and told the BBC that Khdair was murdered “because of his nationality”.

A post-mortem suggested that the teenager was beaten and burned alive, following his abduction in East Jerusalem.