By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Egypt s intelligence chief met Hamas leaders in Gaza on Monday in an effort to bolster a ceasefire between the Palestinian militant group and Israel and to discuss reconstruction plans following the recent hostilities, Egyptian and Palestinian officials said. The visit was the first by an Egyptian intelligence chief to the enclave since the early 2000s. The discussion is focused on ways to cement the calm and Gaza reconstruction plans following the recent Israeli aggression, said a Hamas official, who asked not to be named. Hamas officials, led by Gaza chief Yehya Al-Sinwar, would urge Cairo to pressure Israel to stop its assaults against our people in Jerusalem and Sheikh Jarrah, he said. Eleven days of fighting between Israel and Hamas erupted on May 10 amid Palestinian anger at Israeli police raids around the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem and plans to evict Palestinians from the Sheikh Jarrah district of the city to make way for Jewish se
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Naftali Bennett, a right-wing political leader, is seeking to form a coalition with centrist politician Yair Lapid to replace Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images
Negotiations continued Monday in Israel over an unlikely political coalition poised to dethrone the country s longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
The attempt to put an end to Netanyahu s rule, publicly announced Sunday night by hard-right party leader Naftali Bennett, has been welcomed by a surprising cross-section of left-wing and right-wing Israelis, as Netanyahu and his allies fight fiercely to keep him in power ahead of a looming Wednesday deadline for a new coalition to be reached.
Top 10 world news today: In this newsletter, we bring to you the biggest stories of May 31. China has now changed its kids policy, allowing couples to have three kids. In Vietnam, a new "hybrid variant" is wreaking havoc, stirring a wave of fear and paranoia and now, the country's aviation body announced it will suspend inbound flights from abroad to capital Hanoi from June 1.
Hamas’s top leader in Gaza is calling for negotiations on a potential prisoner swap with Israel as Egypt is working to solidify a truce between Israel and Hamas following the cease-fire earlier this month that ended
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