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The Israeli military has intensified strikes on parts of Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged that the country’s forces would be “switching gears” in the territory, dividing and seizing more parts of the strip.

President Donald Trump plans to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday in what would be their second White House sit-down since Trump's return to office. The visit, confirmed by a White House official and Netanyahu's office Saturday,

President Donald Trump is expanding his vision for the future of the Gaza Strip, which he hoped to declare a “freedom zone” with peacekeeping forces. Trump made the comments during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday after bilateral discussions on the future of Gaza,

Israel has carried out fresh air strikes on Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered retaliation for one of the heaviest barrages of rocket-fire by Hamas in months. The Israeli military said about half of the 10 rockets which were fired from Gaza late on Sunday landed inside Israel,

Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed mostly women and children, overnight and into Sunday, according to local health officials.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip is expanding to seize “large areas,” the defense minister said, while officials at hospitals inside the Palestinian territory said that Israeli strikes overnight and into Wednesday had killed more than 40 people, nearly a dozen of them children.

The prime minister’s attempts to bring the judiciary under government control are fuelling fears of a constitutional crisis in Israel.