The local pause in fighting came days after ceasefire efforts between Israel and Hamas appeared to be in doubt.

The Israeli government is defending a top military officer who dismissed images of starving Palestinians as “fake” over the weekend, despite President Trump stating Monday that he believes the pictures are real.

For the first time, two major Israeli human rights organisations — B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) — are openly calling Israel’s war in Gaza “genocide”. Their reports landed in Jerusalem this week, calling on the world to act and putting Israel’s government under even greater scrutiny.

Two prominent Israeli rights groups say their country is committing genocide in Gaza. It's the first time that local, Jewish-led groups have made such accusations against Israel during nearly 22 months of war.

"In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, told HuffPost.

Israel says it is fighting against Hamas, not Palestinians as a group. But two of Israel’s best-known rights groups — long critical of Israeli policy — now say they disagree.

A pair of leading Israeli human rights groups has accused Israel of “committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza,” becoming the first such organizations to make the claim.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says no one in Gaza is starving: “There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza. We enable humanitarian aid throughout the duration of the war to enter Gaza – otherwise,

After a long silence, prominent Israelis and activists are increasingly raising alarms about potential war crimes being carried out by the government.