Tony Blair was Wednesday named special envoy of the Middle East peace Quartet shortly after stepping down as British prime minister and tasked with spearheading efforts to create a Palestinian state.

Israeli army incursions into the Gaza Strip killed at least 12 Palestinians on Wednesday, including eight fighters and a 12-year-old boy, in the bloodiest fighting Gaza has seen since Hamas took control there two weeks ago.

According to sources from Ingushetia, on Tuesday morning of June 26, a mobile squad of Mujahideen attacked a base of Russian occupation gang the so-called “reconnaissance squad”.