“When we see it on the ground, then we believe that there is a truce.” Melzer reported from Nahariya, Israel.

NAHARIYA, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar in a sign of progress ...

NAHARIYA: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ... It was not immediately clear when David Barnea would travel to Qatar’s capital, Doha, for the latest round of indirect talks between ...

That allowed McGurk to remain in Doha and continue to work with Qatari negotiators who ... AP writers Natalie Melzer in Nahariya, Israel, and Zeke Miller and Colleen Long in Washington contributed ...

Sunday’s call between Biden and Netanyahu came as the head of Israel’s Mossad foreign intelligence agency, David Barnea, and Biden’s top Mideast adviser, Brett McGurk, were both in the Qatari capital ...