Israel's Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, met with the visiting Foreign Minister of Australia, Senator Penny Wong, on Tuesday and spoke on the telephone with Austria's Foreign Minister, Alexander Schallenberg.
A Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander arrested in Gaza described to Israeli interrogators how terror operatives were trained in Iran in video footage released by the Israel Defence Forces on Tuesday.
Israeli media reported that one rocket struck a store in Netivot and another hit a warehouse in the adjacent community of Givolim, causing damage. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
In the latest such operation, the soldiers of the IDF, together with forces from the Shin Bet (Israel's anti-terror General Security Service) and Border Police overnight operated throughout Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley region where they arrested 27 wanted terrorists.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday, the Qatari PM underscored the broader impact of regional tensions, stating that addressing the conflict in Gaza should be a primary focus for leaders.
Israel's Ministry of Transportation said that as part of the meeting to approve the 2024 state budget and in light of the ongoing war in Gaza, it agreed to cut its budget and pledged to finance the war and the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
Over the past day, Hamas released videos showing hostages Itay Svirsky, Noa Argamani, and another hostage, whose family requested that he not be named.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian hosted External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in Tehran on Monday. The two leaders discussed expanding bilateral and multilateral ties within the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and BRICS.
The IDF has also eliminated two out of Hamas's five brigade-level commanders, the army announced. In addition, 19 battalion-level commanders and 50 company commanders were killed.
As part of an initiative to thwart the activity of Hamas student terror cells at universities and colleges in Judea and Samaria, Israeli security forces operated in Al Najah University in Shechem (Nablus), where the suspects were hiding.
Israeli and Saudi officials actually agree on a lot of things. Both want to normalize their relations, both are willing to continue peace efforts where they left off on October 7, and both want Hamas out of Gaza. But the peace efforts have become tangled with the war in Gaza, and unknotting
Israel's Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant held an operational situation assessment in the IDF's (Israel Defence Forces) Judea and Samaria Division, together with the Head of the IDF's Central Command Major General Yehuda Fox