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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to exact an "immense price from the enemy" after Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip used paragliders and other means to infiltrate Israel.

Israel's cabinet has approved the first stage of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal with Hamas — a move aimed at ending the two-year war in Gaza and freeing hostages on both sides.

With a song from 1759 as a mile marker, pianist Lara Downes and historian Jill Lepore examine what this land was like just before it became the United States.

U.S. backs Israel's claim to sovereignty over the Golan Heights. House panel investigates whether Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump violated federal record-keeping policies. EU agrees to delay Brexit.

A new anti-Hamas militia, comprising looters and criminals in Gaza, has emerged in Gaza with arms from Israel.

The Israeli military says the ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza is officially over and a new offensive there has begun. A series of surprise Israeli airstrikes overnight killed more than 400 Palestinians.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Jean-Martin Bauer Director of Food Security and Nutrition at the World Food Programme about the famine declaration in Gaza.

In Sanford, Fla., Monday, jury selection begins in the murder trial of George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer charged with shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012. Police at first declined to charge Zimmerman after the shooting because of Florida's Stand Your Ground law, which gives immunity to people who, fearing for their lives, use deadly force in self-defense.

The president said the death of Osama bin Laden and most of his top lieutenants, and the fact that there have been no large-scale terrorist attacks on the U.S. homeland, meant that a new policy was in order — one that concentrates on capturing, rather than killing terrorist suspects.

Robert Siegel talks to Martin Indyk, Former Ambassador to Israel and current vice president of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. He is also the co-author of Bending History: Barack Obama's Foreign Policy. They discuss Israel, and the complicated relations it has with the United States and its neighbors. He talks about what needs to come next to keep the tensions between Israel and other state players from spinning out of control.