Netanyahu, top ministers play up security concerns should two-state solution become reality * UK's Starmer to hold emergency meeting with France, Germany over 'indefensible' aid situation in Gaza

US mediators are heading home after Hamas allegedly showed a lackluster effort to reach a cease-fire deal with Israel on Thursday, President Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has visited IDF soldiers in the Gaza Strip, rejecting accusations that Israel is responsible for a humanitarian crisis in the region. "We are acting here according to international law. We are providing humanitarian aid according to international law," Herzog tells reservists from Battalion 969.

France will recognize a Palestinian state in the next United Nations General Assembly in September, The Associated Press reported Thursday. French President Emmanuel Macron said in a Thursday X post that he would formalize the decision in the coming assembly,

Four leading news organizations say their journalists in Gaza are facing the threat of starvation as the Israel-Hamas war grinds on.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that France will recognize Palestinian statehood, a largely symbolic move but one that puts a leading, global nation at odds with Israel’s push for countries to hold off on recognizing Palestinian statehood until a resolution of the decades-old conflict.

Officers were violently attacked at the tourist attraction Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin during a protest rally against Israel's policies in the Gaza Strip, the police said on Thursday evening. More than 15 arrests were made,

France will recognize Palestine as a state, President Emmanuel Macron posted on the platform X on Thursday evening. "In keeping with its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East,