Many of Israel's staunchest Western allies are piling pressure on the Netanyahu government to ensure a durable ceasefire in the Gaza Strip at the earliest in the wake of reported Israeli killings of foreign-linked civilians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to confirm on Saturday that new Qatar-mediated negotiations were underway for a pause in fighting,
An Israel-linked hacker group claimed responsibility Monday for a suspected attack that took 70% of Iran’s gas stations offline and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin landed in Israel amid growing pressure for Israel's military to scale back in Gaza.
At least one of the three Israel hostages mistakenly shot and killed by Israeli forces in Gaza was holding “a stick with a white cloth on it,” an IDF official told reporters Saturday.Rina Bassist, Ezgi Akin, Beatrice Farhat, Elizabeth Hagedorn, Adam Lucente, Jack Dutton, Jared Szuba and Al-Monitor’s contributors on the ground in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel contributed to this blog.