In pictures: Mideast truce crumbling

The month-old US-brokered fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Authority appears to be falling to pieces, as violence flares up.

Family members mourn one of four Palestinians killed in an Israeli helicopter attack on Bethlehem

At least 10 are injured in the operation, which Israel says has averted an attack on the Maccabiah

The Maccabiah, an international Jewish sporting event, goes ahead as planned despite fear of attacks

...but security is especially tight at the event, after a suicide bomber blew himself and two Israelis up

Israeli officials inspect the site of the suicide bombing in the northern Israeli town of Binyamina

...and ambulances take the injured to a nearby hospital

In Jerusalem, soldiers scuffle with mourners at a service for Palestinian negotiator Faisal Husseini who died last month