Even the prospect of civil war cannot be ruled out,' an expert tracking growing violence in the West Bank told Newsweek.

Before Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel and the subsequent Gaza war, Saudi Arabia was inching toward a groundbreaking diplomatic deal with Israel in return for a US defence pact. But the Israeli assault on Gaza, and more recently on Iran, has hardened Riyadh’s stance and made it less likely to strike a deal anytime soon.

PALESTINE has once again lost a highly dedicated doctor. Dr. Marwan Al-Sultan, a prominent doctor in the Gaza Strip and the director of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, was tragically killed in an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, along with his wife and daughter, as reported by The New Arab.