The European Commission has joined other countries in telling Israel to cancel a plan to build settlements east of Jerusalem, which would split the West Bank in two.
Israel has opened bidding for more than 1,200 homes for Israeli settlers in a West Bank area called E1.
Politicians across Germany's political spectrum, including Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives, the AfD and the Left party, are calling for the EU to sanction Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir over his remarks about killing people in Gaza.
Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to US President Donald Trump, held a rare direct meeting with a Hamas leader to try to revive a stalled Gaza peace plan, a week after Israel rejected it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a US-brokered Gaza peace plan, even though Hamas, the group that controls Gaza and has fought Israel there, already agreed to it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video statement that Israeli troops will not leave Gaza until Hamas gives up its weapons entirely, rejecting the terms of a Gaza ceasefire and disarmament deal that US President Donald Trump announced only days earlier.
More than two dozen Palestinians killed in Gaza and over 125 Israeli incursions into Lebanese airspace this weekend test a disarmament framework announced just days earlier.
Iran said Monday it is not negotiating with the United States and expects no talks, contradicting President Trump, who said a deal over the Strait of Hormuz (a key oil shipping route) could start that same afternoon.
Hamas said Friday it agreed to a US-brokered plan under which it would disarm and Israeli troops would withdraw from Gaza.
Hamas has confirmed it agreed to a deal, announced by US President Donald Trump, in which it will give up its weapons in exchange for Israel gradually pulling its troops out of Gaza.
This week's defense-industry news, from NATO picking five companies to build anti-drone systems to Greece buying a €3.5 billion Israeli air-defense system, Israel warning its own weapon stocks are running low, and Britain and Japan struggling to expand their arms production, all show the same problem.
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House on Tuesday for the first time since US and Israeli strikes on Iran in late February set off new Middle East fighting.