An extremist official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet has advocated for killing "30 to 40" people in Gaza each night.
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that Trump championed has mostly held, but progress has slowed recently.
Christmas celebrations are slowly returning to the traditional birthplace of Jesus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
British Muslim journalist Sami Hamdi, who has been held by US federal immigration for over two weeks since being detained at SFO, is set to be released and allowed to return to the UK.
More than 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war so far, Gaza health officials said Saturday, as more bodies are recovered and identified in the devastated Gaza Strip since the ceasefire began on Oct. 10.
Israel on Monday handed over the bodies of 45 Palestinians, the Red Cross said, a day after militants returned the remains of three hostages.