EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says Brussels fully backs Iraq’s efforts to de-escalate growing tensions between the US and Iran.

Measures reportedly include promoting the entry of medicines and medical equipment into the Strip, returning fishing vessels seized by the Israeli Navy, and an increase in the number of work permits given to Palestinians from 3,000 to 5,000. Hamas: Israel delaying implementation of truce understandings.

"Once we said that we could strike targets south of Haifa. Today, we can say that if Israel has sites south of Eilat, then we can also hit them. All of Israel is under the range of our missiles," Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah says. Terrorist group plans to reduce its presence in Syria, he says.

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Lieberman's excuses for opposing the prime minister and preventing the formation of a right-wing government don't come from any sort of idealism but only seek to inflame the secular public.