While a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza is not on the agenda at this stage of cease-fire talks, the status of the Philadelphi route and Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Sinai border are key to Egypt's position

Netanyahu's mouthpieces suddenly changed their views on a hostage release deal with Hamas in a week that is likely to be critical in negotiations, but the chances that the PM's far-right allies will join them don't look high

Israel 'has no right to exist as a racist, white supremacist, settler-colonialist, apartheid, Zionist state,' says a representative of a Palestinian advocacy group, as 'March on the DNC' organizers anticipate crowds potentially 40 times greater than those outside the Republican Convention last month

Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu is enjoying an unbelievable, if not unbearable, recovery in the polls, despite Israel's dire diplomatic and security situation. In cold campaign terms, his management of the Gaza war and the drawn-out hostage crisis is a losing issue – but there's salvation in Tehran

Among the considerations behind the recommendation are the time that has passed since the statements were made when their 'blood was boiling,' as well as the ICJ hearing. The attorney general must now decide whether to launch an investigation