<p><span lang="EN-US">Minister Orit Strock commented on the operation in Rafah in an interview with </span><i><span lang="EN-US">Reshet Bet</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> radio on Monday night and said, "I pray for the success of our soldiers who are finally going out to fight in Rafah."</span></p>

<p>Elma Avraham, an 85-year-old woman who was freed in November from Hamas captivity in Gaza and evacuated to Soroka Medical Center in serious condition, has been released from the hospital.</p>

Israeli official to Reuters: Hamas counteroffer does not meet our demands

Protesters walk on the road between vehicles, confront police officers operating at the scene. Three protesters arrested for disturbing the peace.

<p><span lang="EN-US">Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is jeopardizing a ceasefire agreement by bombing Rafah.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">"Tremendous effort has been made to produce an exchange deal that'll release hostages and realize a ceasefire. Hamas has put out an offer. If Netanyahu genuinely wants a deal, he will negotiate the offer in earnest. Instead, he is jeopardizing the deal by bombing Rafah," Safadi wrote on social media.</span></p>

Axios reports that Israeli forces are planning to capture the Palestinian Arab side of the Rafah crossing and monitor all aid entering Gaza.

PA chairman calls on the international community to pressure Israel to stop the "aggression" in the Gaza Strip.

Terrorist mass murderers who murdered US citizens are walking the streets in violation of explicit US law. Haniyeh is living it up in Qatar, Tamimi in Jordan. Trying them in court would educate Americans to what terror is, as Eichmann's trial did for the Holocaust. Op-ed.