The left-wing coalition New Popular Front (NFP), that emerged second in the first round of France's parliamentary elections on Sunday, will withdraw its candidates during next week's second round in case they are in third position in the first round, said Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of the France Unbowed (LFI)."Our guideline is simple and clear: not a single more vote for the National Rally," Melenchon said, reacting to far right party National Rally emerging ahead, with around 34% of the votes, of the first round of the elections.

France's far-right National Rally (RN) party and its allies reached 33% of the national popular vote in the first round of parliamentary elections, the interior ministry said, while the leftwing New Popular Front came in second with 28%.President Emmanuel Macron's centrist bloc reached 20%, the ministry said.

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) on Monday blamed National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and the government in general for ignoring months of warnings that huge amounts of additional detainee space was needed to absorb the thousands upon thousands of new Palestinian detainees connected to the ongoing war.More specifically, the agency said that it strongly opposed releasing detainees, as it was forced to do by existing Israeli law, but that without sufficient detainee space, there was no choice.In addition, the Shin Bet warned that it and the IDF have slowed the pace of new arrests because of a lack of space to absorb any new detainees.Finally, the Shin Bet said that it has been releasing dangerous detainees as obligated by existing law on a sliding scale, by grading detainees on their level of danger.It said it has been releasing detainees who might have ties to terror first in order to avoid releasing others who were actual combat fighters for Hamas and Islamic Jihad.Further, the Shin Bet said that Shifa Hospital Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya was considered dangerous, but less dangerous than these fighters, which was why he was included in the current round of releasees.

A state of emergency was announced on an Air Europa flight bound for Tel Aviv from Madrid, Walla reported on Monday. The reason for the announcement is yet unclear.

The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry claimed on Monday that 37,900 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7.The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants and has been criticized numerous times for distorting casualty figures.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant dispatched a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday morning regarding the reserve law, Israel's Army Radio reported.The letter criticized the finance ministry, which is opposed to prolonging regular service.

The IDF is getting close to the point where it will have eliminated Hamas’s military wing, after which it would transition to going after its remnants, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.He spoke as the intense phase of fighting in Rafah was nearing its completion.“We are progressing to the end of the elimination phase of Hamas’s terrorist army” after which the IDF will “continue to hit its remnants,” he told trainees at Israel’s National Security College.He continued doubling the importance of achieving all the Gaza war aims.These include returning the hostages, ensuring that Hamas can’t govern Gaza or control it militarily, and preventing threats to Israel from the enclave, he said.More significantly, Netanyahu said, he was committed to returning residents of southern and northern border communities who had not been able to safely live in their homes since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.