Middle East Conflict

Israel’s military said it would launch criminal investigations into the killings of 6-year-old Hind Rajab and her family and of 15 Palestinian paramedics.

This article was originally published on CFR.org and updated by NBC News.

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner was meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday after rare talks with the leader of Hamas, in a new push to revive the peace plan for Gaza that Israel has rejected.

An Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon killed seven people. one of the deadliest attacks since a truce between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect in June.

The Israeli military said Thursday that two of its soldiers were killed in an explosion in southern Lebanon in the first Israeli deaths since the implementation of a shaky truce between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in June.

President Donald Trump accused Iran of duplicity and insisted the two sides were discussing reopening the Strait of Hormuz as early as Tuesday, even as Tehran denied talks were even taking place.

Israel says it has shared concerns with the United States about the proposed disarmament deal with Hamas, raising new doubts about the agreement touted by President Donald Trump.

ZOUK MOSBEH, Lebanon — A plan brokered by the United States for Israel to withdraw from parts of southern Lebanon in exchange for the disarmament of Iran-backed Hezbollah has so far offered little relief to families displaced by the monthslong military offensive.

Israeli strikes killed at least six Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday, including two children, medics said.

The fighting shattered a brief period of calm after weeks of escalation between the U.S. and Iran over the strategic Strait of Hormuz.