The vice president is expected to meet with President Isaac Herzog later on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Vance clarified that the United States will not decide for Israel which forces will be deployed in the Gaza Strip

With a postponed state inquiry hanging over his head, Benjamin Netanyahu is already leading his ministers and media mouthpieces to proactively deflect any blame for October 7 and the two-year war onto the hostage families, pro-democracy protesters and the judicial system

Israeli universities, museums, and even its Supreme Court buildings have not been shelled, like they were in Gaza – but the government used the war to destroy Israeli institutions from the inside out

Move comes after months of reports of bitter disagreements between the two. In a statement, Hanegbi took responsibility for his part in the failing that led to the October 7 attack and called for thorough investigations

Israeli indifference to perpetual settler violence against West Bank Palestinians, which spikes every year during the olive harvest, demonstrates how Israelis – outraged by anti-semitic incidents abroad – are incapable of empathizing with Palestinians

Comments from the three senior American officials who visited Israel on Tuesday prove that Washington did not bother to do any groundwork and is only now trying to shape it. If they continue to refuse to challenge Netanyahu and Israel keeps vetoing any involvement by the Palestinian Authority, the crisis will continue to be managed instead of solved - and the Gaza Strip will remain without hope

Zalmanovich, the oldest of the Israeli hostages taken on October 7, died in captivity; Arad was killed while defending Kibbutz Nir Oz and his body taken by the PFLP