In-depth: In last 2 years, situation in region has significantly deteriorated, with Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen teetering on brink of humanitarian catastrophe while Israel and Hamas keep fighting occasional wars; world, meanwhile, focuses on 'more important' crises

Palestinian Authority chairman says Israel 'destroying prospect of political settlement based on the two-state solution', threatens to rescind Palestinian recognition of Israel if it does not withdraw from the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem within a year

Yoel Levi, 21, was born in Melilla, an autonomous Spanish city next to Morocco with a massive Muslim majority; he never thought he would make Aliyah alone and become a soldier in the Givati Brigade until 3 of his classmates joined ISIS