Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, made a rare trip to meet with Palestinians after international backlash over attacks by Israeli settlers.
The U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, center right, meeting residents of Turmus Ayya, a Palestinian town near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that is home to many American citizens, on Saturday.
Smoke rises above the town of Al-Mansouri in southern Lebanon on Wednesday. The release of Lebanese prisoners would come amid talks to disarm Hezbollah and end Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon.
Israel said it seized the head of Hamas’s internal security force in the deadly operation. Fighting has continued in the enclave despite a U.S.-backed truce.
Despite the growing diplomatic isolation of the government, the agreement makes clear that the Israeli defense industry is still finding considerable demand abroad.
Analysts say Tehran could intensify the dispute militarily after the United States announced new efforts to squeeze Iran’s economy. One Iranian official vowed that “not a single drop of oil” would leave the gulf.
Motorists drive past an anti-American billboard in Tehran on Monday. President Trump has threatened Iran with “economic warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale.”
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