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Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz meets his British and French counterparts, David Lammy and Stéphane Séjourné in Jerusalem. Lammy and Séjourné are in Jerusalem to discuss the ongoing Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar. IMAGES
Foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation meet in Jeddah at the request of "Palestine and Iran", as regional tensions soar following the killing of Hamas chief and Hezbollah top commander. IMAGES
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi holds meeting with top foreign policy officials from the Palestinian Authority and four Muslim-majority countries, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas claims thousands of civilian lives. IMAGES
Speaking to MEPs in Brussels, Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen says his country's war with Hamas is "not just the war of the state of Israel," but concerns the "free world". Cohen's address comes more than a month after Hamas' deadly attack on Israel, in which at least 1,400 people were killed. In retribution for the attack, Israeli forces have been conducting air and ground raids in Gaza, where the Hamas-run health ministry says more than 10,500 people have died. SOUNDBITE
Nayef al-Sudairi, the Saudi envoy to Jordan, and recently named ambassador for the Palestinian territories and consul general for Jerusalem, meets with Palestinian top diplomat Riyad al-Maliki on a rare visit to the occupied West Bank. The delegation was Saudi Arabia's first in three decades to the West Bank, which Israel has occupied along with other territories since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. IMAGES