Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House next Tuesday, the PM\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
It added that the meeting coincides with Netanyahu\u2019s visit for the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham.<\/a> The Republican, who was one of the staunchest supporters of Israel in Washington, died suddenly last week.<\/p>\n Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n \u201cAt President Trump\u2019s invitation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will depart for Washington on Monday for an official visit,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n \u201cAs part of the visit, the prime minister will meet with President Trump at the White House on Tuesday and will attend the funeral service for Senator Lindsey Graham.\u201d<\/p>\n The visit will be Netanyahu\u2019s seventh<\/a> at the White House in Trump\u2019s second term, far outpacing any other world leader and underscoring the administration\u2019s continued commitment to Israel.<\/p>\n It comes as the US-Israeli war with Iran has again escalated following a breakdown earlier this month of a ceasefire reached as part of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the US and Iran.<\/p>\n Israel had opposed the MoU, with its ongoing military operations in Lebanon repeatedly threatening to derail diplomatic overtures. The Trump administration has been overseeing talks between Lebanon and Israel aimed at ending the war that do not include Hezbollah.<\/p>\n Both Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a plan meant to turn over Israeli-occupied areas to the Lebanese military, although the facts on the ground have remained largely unchanged since March. In a meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun earlier this week, Trump did not offer a timeline for Israel\u2019s withdrawal.<\/p>\n Also on Friday, US Central Command said its forces completed their 13th consecutive night of strikes on Iran. Iran has retaliated daily against US assets in the region, killing three US soldiers in a strike on a base in Jordan last week.<\/p>\n Washington has also increasingly shifted military assets to Israel, in what some analysts see as a sign of a larger escalation on the horizon.<\/p>\n The visit also comes as Israel\u2019s genocidal war in Gaza goes on, with the Israeli military continuing to issue displacement orders and launching near daily attacks<\/a>, despite the US-backed \u201cceasefire\u201d that began last October.<\/p>\n An analysis from UN agencies has found that an estimated 1.4 million people, representing 67 percent of Gaza\u2019s population, are still suffering \u201ccrisis or worse levels of acute food insecurity\u201d.<\/p>\n All told, at least 73,311 Palestinians have been killed in the war, according to local health authorities, including 1,185 people since the current \u201cceasefire\u201d began.<\/p>\n In the occupied West Bank, Israeli raids have again escalated<\/a>, with four Palestinians killed on Friday in an attack by Israeli forces and settlers southwest of Nablus, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement.<\/p>\n Israeli health officials reported that an Israeli settler was killed and others injured in the area.<\/p>\n At least 86 Palestinians have been killed by Israelis across the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the year, including 21 shot by settlers.<\/p>\n Threats to arrest<\/p>\n