Gaza civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the three air strikes killed at least 44 people and wounded dozens within an hour across the war-torn Palestinian territory. Israel confirmed it carried out two of the strikes.

Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) chairman Yahya Cholil Staquf has apologized on behalf of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization following the recent meeting of its activists with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, claiming that the visit was unbeknownst to them and broke NU regulations on event permission.

The Foreign Ministry has said that the visit made by five young Nadhlatul Ulama (NU) activists to meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem was not by any means representative of Indonesia’s official stance.

It was unclear whether Deif was killed. "We are still checking and verifying the results of the strike," an Israeli military official told reporters.  

In her opening speech at a cross-religious conference on Wednesday, the Foreign Minister said the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza was not a religious conflict and emphasized that religious diversity was an asset in peace advocacy.

The latest update to Meta's policy regarding use of the word "Zionist" comes as the tech titan behind Facebook and Instagram strives to balance free speech with hateful attacks on Jews.

The election came against a backdrop of heightened regional tensions because of the Gaza war, a dispute with the West over Iran's nuclear programme, and domestic discontent over the state of Iran's sanctions-hit economy.

A 'Brazzaville Declaration' released at the conclusion of the summit called on the UN to realize the crucial importance for the planet of the initiative to plant more trees to combat climate change and its consequences.

Indonesia has reiterated its endorsement of women's rights in its Afghanistan diplomacy, with Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi pushing for female participation in advancing the Afghan economy, during an international meeting on Afghanistan in Doha.

Mansour joined Cheikh Niang, Palestine’s permanent observer at the United Nations on a visit to the Vice President on Thursday to discuss the latest situation in Gaza and to thank the Indonesian government for its support for the Palestinian people currently under siege in the territory.

Netanyahu is due to address the US Congress on July 24 during a visit to Washington. He will speak to a joint session of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

In a joint statement, the 12 former government officials said the administration was violating US laws through its support for Israel and finding loopholes to continue shipping weapons to its ally.

Indonesia on Monday “strongly condemned” Israel’s recent plans to legalize five Jewish settlement outposts in the West Bank, reasserting that the two-state solution must be implemented and that Jakarta would “demand” Tel Aviv’s accountability through its diplomacy.

The deaths highlight a looming challenge for organizers as climate change takes hold in the region: the practice of requiring official permits for such services is stirring concern that unregistered pilgrims could increasingly be exposed to life-threatening temperatures.

"We don't want to get into a war because it's not good for Israel. We have the ability to take Lebanon back to the Stone Age, but we don't want to do it," Gallant told reporters on the last day of the visit.

Egypt accounts for more than half of this year's haj fatalities -- 658 out of more than 1,000 reported as of Friday by around 10 countries stretching from Senegal to Indonesia, according to an AFP tally.

Witnesses and the civil defense agency in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip reported an Israeli bombardment in western Rafah, where medics said drone strikes and shelling killed at least seven people.

At least 550 people have died on haj, diplomats told French outlet Agence France Presse (AFP) on Tuesday. Three hundred and twenty-three of the dead were Egyptians, most of whom perished due to heat-related illness, AFP reported, citing two Arab diplomats.

US envoy Amos Hochstein was sent to Lebanon to try and cool tensions following an increase in cross-border fire along Lebanon's southern frontier that has escalated to Hezbollah hinting it could attack Haifa, Israel's third-largest city.

"Hope was expressed for continued joint work on further strengthening of the partnership between Russia and South Africa in all its aspects," a statement said on the Kremlin website, referring to Putin's telephone call to Ramaphosa.

The Foreign Ministry said that the plan proposed by Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto to send an Indonesian peacekeeping force to Gaza can only be carried out if the United Nations mandates it.

Protests against Netanyahu's handling of the war against Hamas militants have gathered pace, with tens of thousands taking to the streets of Israel's biggest city, Tel Aviv, every weekend.

"Fourteen Jordanian pilgrims died and 17 others were missing" during the performance of haj rituals, Jordan's foreign ministry said in a statement.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman invited 2,000 Palestinians to the haj at his own expense including relatives of Gazans who have sought refuge elsewhere.

Participants, who numbered 1.5 million by Monday, have travelled from all parts of the world for the annual rites, this year held in intense heat with forecast daily highs of 44 degrees Celsius.

Since the war erupted, essential aid deliveries to Gaza have been severely restricted by the Israeli government, leaving many people short of food and water, and several thousand children suffering acute malnutrition.

The plan to provide sanctuary for the Palestinian children, Prabowo said, came from the initiative of former East Java governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa and leaders of several pesantren (Islamic boarding schools) in East and West Java.

The annual pilgrimage, one of the world's largest religious gatherings, coincides again this year with the hot Saudi summer, with officials predicting average highs of 44 degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit).

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of G7 leaders in southern Italy, Sullivan said the world should encourage the Palestinian militant group to accept the proposal and avoid stalemate.

Israeli ground forces have been operating in Rafah, near the Egyptian border, since early May to pursue Hamas Palestinian fighters, despite widespread international alarm over the fate of displaced people crowded in the city.