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U.S. and Israeli officials will meet virtually on Monday to discuss Israel’s plans for a military operation in Rafah as part of its ongoing war against Hamas, a U.S. official confirmed in a statement. The scheduled meeting comes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled last week’s plan for an Israeli delegation to visit with…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is recovering from a successful hernia surgery Monday, according to the Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem. The surgery went “as expected and successfully,” and the prime minister was “awake and talking to his family,” said Alon Pikarsky, the hospital’s director of general surgery, in a video statement Monday morning. Netanyahu,…

Israeli forces pulled out of the biggest hospital in Gaza on Monday after a two-week raid and large protests against the government, urging Israeli leaders to make a truce with the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The Israeli military stated that around 200 militants died in the raid on Shifa Hospital and approximately 900 other suspected militants were captured, explaining it…