Here is a summary of today's events thus far
The Israeli army said Monday that one of its soldiers was killed in the country’s north, where cross-border fire with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has soared during the 10-month-old Gaza war.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s three-hour meeting with Antony Blinken was “positive and conducted in a good spirit”, according to a statement from the Israeli prime minister’s office.
Blinken said in Tel Aviv now is “probably the best, maybe the last” opportunity to get the hostages home and to get a ceasefire.
Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Monday that two of its fighters were killed and claimed attacks on northern Israel, including with drones, in the latest cross-border violence amid fears of full-blown war.
The armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility on Monday for a bomb blast near a synagogue in Tel Aviv that Israeli police and the Shin Bet intelligence agency described as a terrorist attack.
The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza has said there have now been 40,139 Palestinians killed and 92,743 injured in Israel’s millitary offensive on Gaza since October 7.
Top US diplomat Antony Blinken spoke to Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant after he met one-on-one with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for 2 and a half hours on Monday.
Blinken will travel to Egypt on Tuesday for meetings in the Mediterranean city of el-Alamein after he wraps up his Israel stop.
Mediators will meet again this week in Cairo to try to cement a ceasefire.
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