<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><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>

<p>IDF: Overnight, IAF fighter jets successfully intercepted a UAV that approached Israel from the east. The UAV was monitored by IDF soldiers, did not cross into Israeli territory and no sirens were sounded according to protocol. No injuries were reported and no damage was caused.</p>

<p><span lang="EN-US">Reports in Gaza say that IDF forces are advancing to the Philadelphi corridor and encircling the Tel Sultan neighborhood between Rafah and the border, near Kerem Shalom.</span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-US">A defense official said that the IDF is attacking the areas in the northern Gaza Strip from which rockets were fired at Sderot on Monday evening.</span></p>

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

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.

Argentine Jewish tennis player Diego Schwartzman, 31, announces 'very difficult decision' to retire from professional tennis.