Hamas official: we were asked to be sensitive to Netanyahu's vote
Bassem Naim said mediators on the Gaza roadmap, the US adviser Jared Kushner among them, urged the movement to weigh the Israeli prime minister's standing before an election. He refused.
PoliticsNetanyahu told Kushner targeted killings in Gaza will continue
The envoy selling the roadmap and the prime minister being sold it are described as parting without agreement on the one practice that keeps the toll rising through the truce.
Erdogan urged Trump to keep negotiating with Iran, Ankara says
The same readout has the Turkish president telling Trump that attacks on Palestinians in Gaza have risen since his own peace plan entered its second phase.
PoliticsKushner meets Netanyahu a day after rare talks with Hamas in Egypt
The 15-point roadmap has been accepted by Hamas and rejected by Israel, which leaves the US envoy shuttling between a party that has signed on to the sequence and a party that has not.
PoliticsEight foreign ministries blame Israel for the Gaza deadlock
The joint statement calls the rejection a repudiation of a plan the Security Council itself endorsed, and asks Washington to keep pressing — an admission that the signatories cannot enforce it themselves.
PoliticsQatar condemns escalating settler attacks in the occupied West Bank
Doha calls the systematic violence a flagrant violation of international law.
West BankPalestinians ask foreign governments to act on settler attacks
Officials and residents in Bethlehem call for concrete measures, PNN reports.