Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made a surprise visit to Israel on Monday to visit the U.S.-operated Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) -- the hub created to manage humanitarian and security efforts in Gaza following the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

NPR Mideast correspondent Daniel Estrin has entered the Gaza Strip for the first time since the war began, but Israel still requires a military escort.

The alternative, Ambassador Michael Waltz bluntly told diplomats, was to watch the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas give way to a return to war.

The Palestinian officials said that a Western board administering the Gaza Strip would be a return to the days of the British Mandate. Senior Palestinian officials have demanded that US President Donald Trump disallow former UK prime minister Sir Tony Blair from leading the Board of Peace,

The U.S. gathered intelligence last year that Israel’s military lawyers warned there was evidence that could support war crimes charges against Israel for its military campaign in Gaza – operations reliant on American-supplied weapons,

Palestinians are still facing shortages of food, water, medicine and other supplies as a result of Israeli restrictions.

Israel's military gave CBS News a rare look deep inside Gaza, where many questions still hang over the ruins of war and the future of 2 million Palestinians.

CAIRO — After years of seeing its star power wane, Egypt is having a diplomatic moment. By hosting the negotiations last month in the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh that finally produced a ceasefire in the Gaza war, Egypt underscored that it still wields significant clout in the Middle East.

As part of President Trump's peace plan for Gaza, the US has been speaking to Azerbaijan, Indonesia, the UAE, Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey about participating in the International Stabilization Force. Azerbaijan does not plan to send peacekeepers to Gaza unless there is a complete halt to fighting there between Israel and Hamas,