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Hamas clashes test Trump's Gaza peace deal, his top negotiators return to the region to shore up the ceasefire.
Near-daily Israeli attacks have become the new normal in Lebanon, nearly a year after a U.S.-brokered truce halted the lastest conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
An Israeli security official said the transfer of aid into the territory is halted "until further notice," the first major test of the ceasefire.
Israeli fire killed three people near a ceasefire line in Gaza on Monday, medics said, with U.S. envoys expected in Israel to try to push forward the fragile truce that faced its gravest test so far over the weekend.
A US embassy spokesperson and Israeli official confirmed Witkoff and Kushner’s arrival in Israel on Monday. US vice-president JD Vance said on Sunday that he also might travel to Israel “in the next few days”, with Israeli authorities expecting his arrival on Tuesday.
The conflict over compulsory service for the nation’s ultra-Orthodox has become a stand-in for a larger struggle over the country’s right-wing, religious turn — and could determine its future.