Timeline: This week's deadly Israeli attacks on Gaza, Jerusalem
Timeline: This week's deadly Israeli attacks on Gaza, Jerusalem
The violence is sparked by a years-long bid by Israeli settlers to take over Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem.
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Smoke billows from Gaza after Israeli airstrike [Anadolu Agency/Getty]
This is a recap of the last few bloody days of violence between Israel and Palestinians, sparked by a years-long bid by Israeli settlers to take over Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem.
Israeli police violently attack Palestinian worshippers after Muslims pack the Al-Aqsa mosque compound - Islam's third holiest site - to pray on the last Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
Israeli police violently attack Palestinian worshippers after Muslims pack the Al-Aqsa mosque compound - Islam's third holiest site - to pray on the last Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
Violence had been building in the Holy City and occupied West Bank for the previous week.
Police fire rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades at protesters, injuring scores of Palestinians.
Second night
On Saturday violence flares elsewhere in East Jerusalem.
Some 121 Palestinians are wounded overnight, the Palestinian Red Crescent says, while 17 Israeli police officers are hurt.
The Middle East Quartet - the US, Russia, EU and the UN - express "deep concern" over the violence.
Court case delay
Much of the recent unrest stems from the long-running legal effort by Israeli settler groups to expel several Palestinian families from their homes, in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
A lower court ruling earlier this year backing the settlers' decades-old claim infuriated Palestinians.
But a Supreme Court hearing on a Palestinian appeal is postponed by the justice ministry in light of "the circumstances".
Third night
As Pope Francis joins calls for an end to the violence, Israeli police carry out fresh attacks again overnight Saturday and on Sunday evening in occupied East Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defends Israel's response to the protests.
March cancelled
In fierce attacks on Monday morning at the mosque compound, the Palestinian Red Crescent says at least 395 Palestinians are wounded, with more than 200 hospitalised.
Fears of further chaos ease temporarily when the planned "Jerusalem Day" march by far-right Israelis to celebrate Israel's 1967 capture of the Old City is cancelled.
Dramatic escalation
Hamas fires 200 rockets from Gaza as Israel responds with 130 airstrikes by fighter jets and attack helicopters the besieged enclave.
Twenty-eight Palestinians - including 10 children - are killed in Israeli airstrikes.
Islamic Jihad said two of its commanders were among those killed.
Israel said two people were killed Tuesday in an intense rocket bombardment of the coastal town of Ashkelon north of Gaza, with Netanyahu vowing to intensify attacks in reply.
Gaza building destroyed
In the north of the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian is killed and another wounded by Israeli army gunfire.
In the evening, a 12-storey building in Gaza where several top Hamas commanders allegedly had offices is completely destroyed in an Israeli air strike.
Hamas says it has launched 130 rockets towards Tel Aviv in response, where air raid sirens ring out.
Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv halts flights.
With 35 Palestinians and five Israelis now killed since Monday, Israel says Wednesday that it has been the target of some 1,050 rocket attacks over the last 60 hours.
It said 850 have either landed in Israel or been intercepted by its Iron Dome air defence system, while 200 fell short coming down in Gaza.
Agencies contributed to this report.
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