$300 million allocated to grants and loans to support the Palestinian Authority's budget for the health and education sectors. The other $180 million will go to urgent rescue and humanitarian support, as well as supporting the United Nations' programs in the West Bank and Gaza.

State-run IRIB news reports that European Union leaders have unofficially been informed of Islamic republic's decision to reduce some of its "minor and general" commitments made as part of 2015 nuclear agreement.

What most commentators miss is that it isn’t really Israel’s responsibility to save Gaza from Islamist tyranny. It should be up to the Palestinians to do so.

"I ordered preparations for continuation [of the campaign] and I ordered to keep armored and artillery forces deployed around the Gaza Strip," Netanyahu says hours after announcing cease-fire. Steinitz: Iran wants to sow chaos.

Israeli authorities had cited the precarious security situation amid rocket fire by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip and Israeli retaliatory airstrikes over the weekend, but the judges pointed out that Netanyahu's decision had been made before this weekend's escalation of hostilities along the Gaza border.