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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron at the Bellevue presidential palace in Berlin, before attending a memorial event to honour the late politician Wolfgang Schaeuble at the German lower house of parliament Bundestag. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Élysée Palace for a working dinner. On the menu: the growing tensions around Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian violence. IMAGES
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jerusalem. Blinken reiterated US opposition to an Israeli assault on the crowded Gaza city of Rafah in talks with Netanyahu, who has vowed to press ahead, a US official said. IMAGES
The United States says it still opposes a major Israeli assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a date was set. With some 1.5 million Palestinians sheltering in Rafah, "We have made clear to Israel that we think a full-scale military invasion of Rafah would have an enormously harmful effect on those civilians and that it would ultimately hurt Israel security," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Flag-waving protesters gather on Tel Aviv's Kaplan Street to demand early elections and a hostage deal, amid growing anger at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the war in Gaza. IMAGES