An Israeli ultra-Orthodox party has announced plans to leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government.

However, UTJ's withdrawal from the coalition will only go into effect 48 hours after submission of its ministers' resignation letters, which gives the prime minister some time to

Some of the prime minister’s political allies have quit over a proposal to make religious students serve in military, and more are threatening to do so.

An Israeli scheme to move hundreds of thousands of already uprooted Palestinians to a so-called "humanitarian city" in Gaza has led politicians to spar with the defence establishment, but officials say a practical plan has yet to be crafted.

A planned “humanitarian city” inside Gaza intended to hold hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would be a “concentration camp,” former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned.

STORY: Critics - both inside and outside Israel  - have condemned an Israeli scheme to move hundreds of thousands of already-displaced Palestinians to a so-called "humanitarian city" in Gaza.Some opposition critics have likened it to a "concentration camp" and said it could lead to ethnic cleansing.