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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted a new ceasefire plan proposed by US envoy Steve Witkoff, according to the country's media. However, Hamas reportedly is likely to reject the proposals.
Israel's military said Wednesday that troops fired warning shots at a group of diplomats from multiple countries including
Tokyo on Thursday lodged a protest with Israel after the Israeli military fired what it called warning shots at a group of Japanese and other diplomats visiting the Palestinian territory of the West Bank.
Japan has strongly protested Israeli soldiers firing what they say were warning shots toward a diplomatic delegation in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces open fire to intimidate a foreign diplomatic delegation on its arrival at an entrance to the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank - Anadolu Ajansı
Crowds of far-right Israelis chanted insults and assaulted Palestinians during an annual parade for Jerusalem Day on Monday. Chants of "death to Arabs" and nationalistic slogans were repeated during the event, which commemorates Israeli forces taking Palestinian-majority East Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.