Benjamin Netanyahu

President Joe Biden told Israel on Wednesday that he expected "a significant de-escalation today on the path to a cease-fire", which led to pushback from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Death and destruction continue in Gaza and Israel, but it may ultimately boost the political fortunes of both Hamas and embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Biden promised the legislator that he will do everything he can to make sure her Palestinian family members remain safe inside Israel's West Bank.

"I've been following this from a distance for a really long time, and I've never felt like Americans really care that much about Palestinians," Reid said.

The prime minister's son criticized the Wonder Woman actress for not taking a stronger stance on the escalation in violence between Israel and Palestinian militants.

"Enough, President Biden. You will not do this on our watch," Tlaib said. "You have to speak out against this violence in a very aggressive way that holds Netanyahu and his leadership accountable."

President Joe Biden "expressed his support for a ceasefire" in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time since deadly hostilities broke out involving Gaza-based Palestinian fighters. Netanyahu, however, said orders were to continue striking at the terrorist targets."

Sanders said the Israeli government contains "overt racists" who have evolved out of an increasingly right-wing coalition.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Gaza building destroyed by an airstrike was a "perfectly legitimate target."

"It hampers the ability to tell the story fairly on both sides," AP executive editor Sally Buzbee said.

Biden called both the Palestinian and Israeli leaders Saturday to discuss the latest spate of violence in the West Bank.

"Israel targeting media sources is so the world can't see Israel's war crimes led by the apartheid-in-chief Netanyahu," Tlaib tweeted Saturday.

In an address to the nation posted on his Twitter account, Netanyahu said that Israel "would exact a very heavy price from Hamas and the other terrorist organizations."

"The lives of Palestinian Muslims are equally precious," the Chinese official said.

The Democratic congresswoman said violence and oppression of Palestinians has been "enabled and supported" by Israel's prime minister.

The mob attack on a driver in a Tel Aviv suburb has been condemned by political leaders in Israel.

Both Lebanon security forces and the Israel Defense Force confirmed late Thursday that three rockets were launched from Lebanon toward Israel.

At least 67 people, including 16 children, have been killed in Gaza since the violence escalated on Monday. Officials said seven people have been killed in Israel.

"If there is a cease-fire, we will return to the political track to form a government," Mansour Abbas said.

Palestinians are now certain they will be rewarded, not punished, for their aggression.

Violence in Israel, the worst seen since the 2014 Gaza war, has left at least 36 people dead—five Israelis and 31 Palestinians.

"What we have witnessed is, clearly and frankly, a provocation by the Israeli occupation, that targeted the holiest Islamic sanctities, at the most sacred time," Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the head of the Arab League, told the Associated Press.

Violent clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police and settlers have resulted in hundreds being injured and dozens killed.

The recent escalation has been fuelled over claims over Jerusalem, which both sides see as their capital.

John Hagee, the Christian pastor famous for his passionate support of Israel, says elitists in government and the media are making a bad situation worse in Jerusalem.

"We have serious concerns about the situation, including violent confrontations that we've seen over the last few days," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday, hours after Hamas militants fired rockets into Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back against the criticism Monday, describing Israel's actions in Jerusalem as a law-and-order issue.

The Israeli lawmaker has been tasked with forming a coalition government after Netanyahu failed to do so, but crossing political divides may mean giving up prime minister ambitions.

Israel's prime minister could be at risk of losing power after he failed to meet the deadline to form a governing coalition this week.

The U.S. and its European allies have been trying to revive the 2015 Iran Nuclear deal, which the Trump administration withdrew from in 2018.