Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, discussed the ongoing developments in West Asia and expressed deep concern at the loss of civilian lives while calling for concerted efforts for an early resolution of the situation.
Chris Christie, the Former Republican New Jersey Governor has said he will be travelling to Israel amidst the state's conflict with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, on Thursday, The Hill reports.
As Israel is set to implement four-hour pauses in areas of northern Gaza each day, the White House has said that these pauses are in the right direction as Israel is fighting an enemy that is embedded in its civilian population.
Palestinians have been able to evacuate northern Gaza due to a formalized humanitarian pause in the fighting that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) implemented in several neighbourhoods in northern Gaza for the first time after pressure from the Biden administration.
The IDF explained that the area is the core of the intelligence and operational activities of the terrorist organization Hamas and was used, among other things, to plan and prepare its forces for the murderous attack it carried out on October 7.
Israeli officials reacted with anger to a report suggesting that photographers associated with international news services may have had advance knowledge of Hamas's plan to attack Israeli communities on Oct. 7
Two Israelis were wounded in a shooting attack overnight Wednesday while they were driving near Itamar, southeast of Shechem (Nablus) in central Samaria. A five-month-old girl who was in the car was uninjured.
Israel on Thursday refuted US claims of four-hour daily 'humanitarian pauses' that will allow people to flee hostilities and for deliveries of humanitarian aid in Northern Gaza.
Shtayyeh claimed that Israel's war goal of eradicating Hamas is impossible to achieve because the terror group exists as an "idea" and many of its top members aren't even in Gaza.