"Israel cannot accept that:" Netanyahu rejects Qatar's conditions, insisting Hamas cannot remain in power.

British Muslims are voting on "very different issues to the wider public," he said.

The prime minister warned, "That would allow Hamas to achieve its promise of carrying out massacres, rapes, and kidnappings again and again."

The Eshkol Regional Council stated: "A short while ago, a barrage of rockets was fired towards the Kerem Shalom area. Several rockets exploded in an open area and there are injuries on site. The injured are not residents of the council and we pray for their well-being."

Western editorialists were fiercely anti-Israel 35 years ago too, as shown by a collection of Canadian editorial cartoons from the First Intifada.