After 19 months of pounding Gaza, Israel is now under growing pressure from unlikely quarters – some of its closest Western allies.

Since Mr. Trump’s embrace of the new Syrian leader, Israeli airstrikes on the country have subsided. Israel has launched more than 700 attacks on Syria in the months since Islamist rebels toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad, one of them a recent airstrike that landed just feet from the presidential palace in Damascus.

Israel appears to be changing tack as pressure mounts to get more aid into Gaza, and may let aid groups operating in the battered enclave take charge of non-food assistance.

Despite initial setbacks, Israel's economy rebounds with foreign investments recovering and strategic initiatives like the Lobito Corridor enhancing trade routes.

Foreign contractors are set to carry out a contentious new food aid system in Gaza, displacing experienced aid agencies like the United Nations. It was conceived and largely developed by Israelis as a way to undermine Hamas.

Israeli troops "will stay and hold the ground in areas we've already fought for longer," an IDF spokesperson told Newsweek.

About a third of the Bedouin community in the Negev live in villages not legally recognised by Israel. They are denied basic services, while facing eviction and demolition orders

The only time the Palestinian man wasn’t bound or blindfolded, he said, was when he was used by Israeli soldiers as their human shield.

At the end of his recent tour of the Gulf, Donald Trump said "a lot of people are starving". White House officials indicated the US president was frustrated with the war and wanted the Israeli government to "wrap it up". But while other western leaders release expressions of outrage, Trump is saying almost nothing.

Israel is ramping up security at its embassies worldwide after a shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., left a young couple dead. NBC News' Ryan Nobles and Matt Bradley report on the latest developments surrounding Israel's reaction to the D.

Gov't officials have said that once the full-scale ground op. begins, Israel will not withdraw from areas it has entered, even as part of a deal.