Here are Sunday’s latest updates on everything taking place in Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and the wider Middle East:
■ Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a discussion on tensions with Iran, with Defense Minister Israel Katz and senior defense officials.
■ U.S. President Trump said the Iranians are talking seriously to the U.S., and added that he hopes Iran “negotiates something that is acceptable.”
■ Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that if the U.S. attacked Iran, it would become a regional conflict, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi later told CNN he was “confident” Iran and U.S. can achieve a nuclear deal.
■ Foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey issued a public letter in which they “strongly condemn Israel’s repeated violations of the cease-fire in Gaza,” which they say hinder progres in Trump’s 20-point cease-fire plan for the Gaza Strip.
■ Six former hostages and 72 relatives of hostages demanded the resignation of Israel’s top hostage coordinator, Gal Hirsch, in a scathing public condemnation of his remarks to Haaretz on Friday, in which he said that protests calling for the captives’ release helped Hamas.
■ The Rafah crossing opened Sunday morning in both directions, but a security source told Haaretz that residents are not expected to pass through it today.
■ Israel’s government announced it had approved a plan allocating funds for the rebuilding and redevelopment of Kiryat Shmona, Metula and Shlomi in northern Israel.
■ Doctors Without Borders said it has rejected an Israeli demand to share a list of its Palestinian employees and will cease all operations in Gaza and the West Bank.