Here are the latest updates from Monday on Israel, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the wider Middle East:
■ Prime Minister Netanyahu received an invitation to join Trump’s Board of Peace, according to two sources.
■ President Trump has invited Belarus, Poland, Germany and France to join his Board of Peace.
■ President Trump says he no longer feels bound to pursue peace after Nobel Committee declined to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, according to media reports.
■ Three Palestinians were killed by IDF fire in the Gaza Strip throughout Monday, medical sources said.
■ Senior IDF officials say Trump’s Gaza plan strengthens Hamas and undermines Israel’s security needs, security sources say.
■ Netanyahu warned that Israel would respond vigorously to any attack by Iran in an address to the Knesset.
■ Netanyahu declared that Turkish and Qatari soldiers will not be in the Gaza Strip in a Knesset speech.
■ MK Yair Lapid and Yair Golan condemned violence and lawlessness in the West Bank, calling it a threat to Israel’s rule of law.
■ The Iranian authorities pledged to lift the block on the internet by Friday, according to a government statement by the Vice President.
