One former military chief said that Israel is "well over a year past the point where we could have ended the war."

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he would convene his security cabinet this week to discuss how to instruct the military to meet his war goals in Gaza. "We must continue to stand together and fight together to achieve all our war objectives: the defeat of the enemy,

New images of emaciated Israeli hostages held in Gaza have horrified Israelis and added pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a ceasefire with Hamas.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday (August 3) that he was "deeply shocked" as he watched the "horrifying" videos released by Hamas of Israeli hostages Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski that showed both of them in deteriorating physical and mental conditions.

Hamas announced on Sunday that it would conditionally permit aid to be delivered to hostages in Gaza, so long as Israel would cease its airstrikes in the region. The Palestinian nationalist Islamic paramilitary organization said it would allow the Red Cross to deliver supplies and much-needed aid to the hostages Hamas has in Gaza,