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  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel to inflict more ‘painful blows’ on Hamas soon
  • On Sunday, there was a general strike in the West Bank, and fighting broke out with Lebanon

Rally in Jerusalem calls for remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza to be brought home. It came as talks to secure another ceasefire that would include the release hostages resumed in Egypt.

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Tens of thousands of Israelis thronged central Jerusalem, urging the government to reach a ceasefire deal to free dozens of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas and to hold early elections.

US President Joe Biden said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to the war in Gaza was ‘hurting Israel more than helping Israel’.

The strikes came after PM Benjamin Netanyahu ordered troops to ‘prepare to operate’ in the southern border city, where around 1.3 million people have fled, with Palestinians saying they have nowhere left to retreat.

Biden’s comments reflect the growing divide between the Democratic president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government which includes far-right ministers.

The UN agency responsible for delivering aid to Palestinian refugees is under fire over accusations by Israel that 12 staff members were involved in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out releasing Palestinian prisoners as part of any deal to halt fighting in Gaza, repeating his vow to keep fighting until “absolute victory” over Hamas.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mourned the soldiers but vowed to press ahead with the offensive until ‘absolute victory’ over Hamas.

Militants in the area are now operating sporadically and ‘without commanders’, and the focus is now on the centre and south of the Gaza Strip, a spokesman says.

Israel’s Supreme Court overturned a highly contested law aimed at weakening the justices’ own power in a loss to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition.

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‘We continue intensive strikes to hit Hezbollah’s deployment close to the northern border,’ military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said.

Turkey’s president stepped up his attacks on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and likened Israel’s attacks on Gaza to the treatment of Jewish people by the Nazis.

Benjamin Netanyahu also said once the fighting ends that ‘for the foreseeable future Israel will have to retain overriding security responsibility over Gaza’.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Gaza on Monday and vowed to expand the military operation, and says the war “isn’t close to finished”.

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Hamas warned the remaining 137 hostages it is holding won’t survive the conflict unless Israel meets its demands and frees more Palestinian prisoners.

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and the White House say there is still no deal between Israel and Hamas to free some hostages, after reports of a tentative agreement.

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