Some reports have cast this disconnect as indicative of a chasm between Trump and Israel. But this is a misreading. The divide is not between the president and Israel so much as between the president and Israel’s leader. Most Israelis support what Trump is doing—and oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to the war in Gaza.

The White House has called Trump’s visit a “historic return to the Middle East” but Israel is once again not on the itinerary.

During Tuesday’s State Department press briefing, Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott answered questions about claims that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

Documents published on the ICC website late Sunday also reveal that Israel has asked the court to halt its investigation into atrocity crimes in the Palestinian Territories.

The Israeli military will resume its operations in Gaza "with full force" in the coming days, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. "Completing the operation means defeating Hamas. It means destroying Hamas,

Edan Alexander’s mother, in a disgusting display of good-naturedness and lack of culture, does not thank the prime minister.”

Benjamin Netanyahu was born in Tel Aviv in 1949. He began as a young soldier in elite units of the Israeli army, participating throughout the 1960s in different combat operations at a very high level.

Benjamin Netanyahu said that if Hamas were to release more hostages, Israel would take them, but then it "will go in".