Two Palestinians, one of them an American citizen, were killed on Friday when Israeli settlers attacked the village of Sinjil in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Authority's ministry of health said.

A bench trial challenging the administration's efforts to deport international scholars who express pro-Palestinian views got underway Monday in Boston.

Several children were killed in an Israeli airstrike at a water distribution point in central Gaza Sunday, health officials said, one of several deadly incidents in the territory that come as ceasefire talks in Doha falter.

In Gaza, medics said 17 people trying to get food aid were killed on Saturday when Israeli troops opened fire.