ISRAEL: Missile from Yemen intercepted, IDF says; senior Israeli officials met counterparts in Syria in Qatar-mediated talks ■ GAZA: Hamas official confirms direct talks with the United States as at least 120 Palestinians are killed in IDF strikes; U.S.-backed Gaza aid fund approved by Israel to begin operations in May ■ PALESTINE: Report: PA President Abbas seeking deal to bring Hamas into Palestinian political system

Israeli military says that the Air Force struck more than 130 targets throughout the Strip over the past two days

Ukraine will make securing a cease-fire a priority in expected talks with the Russian delegation, a Ukrainian diplomatic source said, adding there was also a need for 'confidence-building measures'

After 19 months of war, Netanyahu and his far-right allies are still yearning for a Churchill-style 'total victory', but their vision of flattening and depopulating Gaza owes more to Putin and Stalin. Most Israelis, meanwhile, have a very different idea of what victory now means

Following the attack in which a pregnant Israeli woman in the West Bank settlement of Bruchin was killed, seventeen cars were suspected to have been set on fire by Israeli settlers. A house near a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank was also torched, sustaining minor damage

In an attempt to kill Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar, Israel struck the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza's last remaining facility for treating cancer patients. The IDF has struck 122 hospitals and 180 ambulances since the Oct. 7 attack, the WHO says

The day after the Oct. 7 attack, Leora Sela David went to her regional council's operation room and never left, helping to evacuate residents and found Israel's Hostages and Missing Families Forum. 'We can only begin to mourn when they come home,' she says

During the U.S. president's visit, the Saudis, Qataris and Emiratis have made clear that there is a price for their lavish gifts: preventing an attack on Iran that would spark a regional war. Israel has been marginalized