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The cacophony triggered by Trump's proposal to "take over" Gaza obscured the fact that he has has, for now, thwarted a key policy pushed by Netanyahu / @yossi_melman

U.S. allies, from Canada to South Korea, now have to assume that Trump is actively malevolent to everyone beyond America's borders. This could lead to the unprecedented counter-coalition of former friends / Alon Pinkas

Ye rehashes antisemitic trash he said two years ago in series of X posts, may want to consider hiring ghostwriters for his racist rants too, they're getting stale

Cultural Roundup: A packed event in Jaffa on Saturday offered a haunting recital of works by Palestinian poets, many of whom were killed during the war in Gaza / @avshalomhalutz

In an interview on Fox News, Netanyahu said reports that U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff came in and "muscled" him to accept the Gaza cease-fire deal were "completely false"

Israel Police purchased an armored boat from an obscure UAE firm without an official bidding process, despite senior police officials and retired naval officers saying that the police's marine unit has no such need / @oyoyoy @JoshBreiner @FalahSaab

UNRWA still operates in Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza despite Israeli law banning agency

Five Thai nationals held captive by Hamas for over a year returned to Thailand on Sunday, reuniting with their tearful families at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport

"Netanyahu knows he doesn't have a government if he proceeds with the deal": Israeli sources believe Netanyahu intends to sabotage hostage deal, delegation heading to Qatar will not advance Stage 2 of the agreement

Did Trump prepare the ground for West Bank annexation during Netanyahu's visit? | Haaretz Today | @Bsamuels0

We cannot allow the public, political and diplomatic discourse to recover from the shock of Saturday's hostage release only to return to the baseless and twisted talk of displacing two million Gazans | Haaretz Editorial

Palestinians feel abandoned by Arab states as some prisoners freed by Israel are left in limbo / @ztnagham

LIVE UPDATES: IDF says its air force struck Hezbollah tunnel in Bekaa Valley linking Syria and Lebanon, which was used for weapons smuggling

Brother of released hostage Or Levy: Hamas starved the hostages, remaining men won't survive captivity / @Eden_solomon1

"Shlomi is very excited when he sees more and more hostages being freed," the mother of Shlomi Ziv – one of four hostages freed in an IDF operation last year – says. "We have to be optimistic. Our hearts won't be whole until they all come back"

The demon of ethnic cleansing has been let out of the bottle in Israel / @alufbenn

"The fight must continue with full force": Only a few hours after her cousin Ofer was released from Hamas captivity in Gaza, Ifat Kalderon was already making her way back to protest for the release of the remaining hostages

IDF fires at Gazans entering buffer zone by Israel border; Palestinians say three killed

Israel Police buys armored boats without official bid from obscure Dubai firm; officials say "no need for them" / @oyoyoy @JoshBreiner @FalahSaab