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With the conflict at an apparent impasse, international mediators were gathering in Cairo with hopes of brokering a temporary cease-fire.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised an invasion of the southern city of Rafah, where more than a million people are seeking shelter.

Israeli news media reported that the departure of the 98th Division meant there were no Israeli troops actively maneuvering in the southern Strip.

Elad Katzir lived near the border with the Gaza Strip. His sister said Israel’s government should have done more to get him back alive.

The Israeli airstrike this week in Damascus that killed seven Iranian commanders was an unusually harsh blow, and officials say Iran is determined to respond, raising fears of a war.

Unlike the coronavirus, the H5N1 virus has been studied for years. Vaccines and treatments are available should they ever become necessary.

The president has put Israel’s leader “on probation,” as a veteran diplomat put it. The threat is not idle, aides said, but he wants to force a course correction rather than follow through.

An inquiry found that a combat helicopter had “fired at a vehicle that had terrorists in it” but also, “in retrospect,” hostages.