<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a press conference in Tel Aviv this evening: "Today marks the 7th day of the humanitarian pause in Gaza, that the United States worked closely with Israel, Qatar, and Egypt to put in place. The seventh day that hostages have been freed and are returning home to their families, the seventh day that significantly more humanitarian assistance is getting in to the people of Gaza who need it, and the seventh day that civilians in Gaza have been able to move to safer areas."</p>

<p>Reports in Egypt say that 10 Israeli hostages will be released today - in exchange for 30 Palestinian Arab prisoners</p>

<p>A 40-year-old man who was taken to Shaare Zedek Hospital after being injured in the shooting attack at the entrance to Jerusalem was pronounced dead.</p><p>This brings the number of those murdered in the attack to four.</p>

Ruling accepts Russsian government's position that LGBTQ activists are an 'extremist movement' in latest step in anti-LGBTQ crackdown.

<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a press conference in Tel Aviv this evening: "In my meetings today with the Prime Minister and senior Israeli officials, I made clear that before Israel resumes major military operations, it must put in place humanitarian civilian protection plans that minimize further casualties of innocent Palestinians. That means taking more effective steps to protect the lives of civilians, including by clearly and precisely designating places in southern and central Gaza where they can be safe and out of the line of fire. It means avoiding further significant displacement of civilians inside of Gaza. It means avoiding damage to life-critical infrastructure like hospitals, like power stations, like water facilities. And it means giving civilians who have been displaced to southern Gaza the choice to return to the north as soon as conditions permit. There must be no enduring internal displacement."</p>

<p>“As I told the prime minister, intent matters, but so do results,” says US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. </p>

<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a press conference in Tel Aviv this evening that Hamas has choices, just like Israel.</p><p>"Hamas could immediately release all of the hostages it holds. It could stop using civilians as human shields and stop using civilian infrastructure to stage and launch terrorist attacks. Hamas could lay down its arms, surrender the leaders who are responsible for the slaughter, the torture, the rapes of October 7th. Hamas could renounce its stated goal of eliminating Israel, killing Jews, and repeating the atrocities of October 7th again and again and again."</p><p>"Everyone around the world who cares about protecting innocent civilians, innocent lives, should be calling on Hamas, indeed demanding of Hamas, that it immediately stop its murderous acts of terror and deplorable use of innocent men, women, and children as human shields."</p>

The uncle of two young hostages reveals that his nephews were burned by the exhaust of a motorcycle so their captors could identify them.