Ambassador Mike Huckabee is to travel to Cairo for talks that officials said would focus on the Gaza war and tensions between Israel and Egypt.

The visit comes at a moment of high tension for the longtime allies following Israel’s attempted assassination of Hamas leaders on Qatari soil earlier this week.

Massachusetts lawmakers visited Israel on a trip billed as the largest delegation of American legislators to ever visit the country.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Israel starting on Saturday to reaffirm US commitment to the nation’s security and bringing Hamas-held hostages home from Gaza.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Israel next week in a show of support before the UN meets for what is expected to be a contentious debate on the creation of a Palestinian state

Slovenia on Thursday imposed a travel ban on Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a government statement, after last year officially recognising Palestine and in July banning two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers.

It has taken a month for the flotilla to traverse around 1,700 nautical miles of open water. The Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla reached a point in the Eastern Mediterranean that is 300 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza and Israel on Monday afternoon.

Israel and the United States have shown a unified front amid international anger over Israel’s airstrikes on Hamas leaders in Qatar and its bombardment of Gaza City.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited a contentious archeological site beneath Jerusalem on Monday, giving U.S. backing to a Jewish settler-led project that critics say undermines prospects for a future Palestinian state.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Qatar in a show of support after an Israeli missile strike last week, a senior State Department official said.