How long can Israel's government dismiss the pressure? The US defence secretary is in town after a week in which Joe Biden and Binyamin Netanyahu, for the first time in 10 weeks of war, pointedly aired their differences publicly over the way Israel is conducting its ground operation in Gaza and the plan for what happens next.
We ask about the mounting pressure from allies and the mounting domestic pressure after last week's accidental killing of three escaped hostages by Israeli forces.
For the first time, on Saturday, a rally for those abducted by Hamas clearly turned into an anti-Netanyahu protest. The voice of an interest group, or a turning point for a nation and the legacy of its dominant figure of the past quarter-century?
"Our army doesn't know how to observe open-fire regulations." That bitter accusation comes from the father of slain hostage Alon Shamriz.
The state of Israel is also getting an earful from the pope. On Sunday, he suggested that Israel's military was employing terrorism tactics when first a mother who had gone to the bathroom in the compound of the church of the Holy Parish in Gaza and then her daughter were shot dead. The church blames an Israeli sniper. Israel's government insists it does not shoot unarmed civilians.
Meanwhile, Israel's military organised a press tour on Sunday of a large tunnel, wide enough to drive a car into, that it says stretches for four kilometres – part of the so-called Gaza Metro that's the target of the current operation.
Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Lila Paulou and Juliette Brown.
