For years, Netanyahu oversaw a policy of containing – not confronting – Hamas in Gaza, during which Israeli governments allowed Qatar to provide hundreds of millions of dollars of aid for Gaza. A month after the 7 October attacks, he told a German newspaper that claims he wanted to strengthen Hamas were “an absolute lie”.
At least four Palestinians and two Israelis have been killed in a shooting in the occupied West Bank, the deadliest incident there in months. There are conflicting accounts about the sequence of events in the northern town of Tal. Palestinian sources told the BBC that residents confronted Jewish settlers who were attacking them when Israeli
