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The secretary of state’s comments underscored the stakes of cross-border tensions that threaten to bring a larger regional war alongside the conflict in Gaza.

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Israel’s military leadership wants a cease-fire with Hamas in case a bigger war breaks out in Lebanon, security officials say. It has also concluded that a truce would be the swiftest way to free hostages.

Rights groups denounced the detention of Al-Shifa Hospital’s director and thousands of other Gazans without trial, while Israeli leaders faulted his release as a government failure.

Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the director of Gaza’s largest hospital, was taken into custody in late November during an Israeli military raid on the facility.

The Israelis had sought to link the hospital director to Hamas operations at Al-Shifa, and his release after seven months without charges prompted extensive finger-pointing.

Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the director of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, was released on Monday after more than seven months in Israeli detention without charges.

In the towns of Tulkarm and Jenin, armed militants are flocking to more hard-line factions, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, while the Israeli military tries to rein them in.

The intolerance in the L.G.B.T.Q. community for nuanced views of the war in Gaza is not what the rainbow flag stands for.

In a new video, Noa Argamani, a hostage rescued on June 8, called for the release of the remaining captives.