The war in Gaza will likely continue until at least the end of the year, an Israeli official warned. Follow for live updates.

Israel sent tanks on raids into Rafah on Wednesday and predicted its war on Hamas in Gaza would continue all year, after Washington said the Rafah assault did not amount to a major ground operation that would trigger a change in U.

The war in Gaza will likely continue through at least the end of the year, an Israeli official warned Wednesday, seeming to dismiss the idea that fighting would end after the military offensive against Hamas in Rafah.

While the U.S. wants an end to the conflict ‘as soon as possible,’ an Israeli official signaled there will be no quick conclusion to the war.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has withdrawn his ambassador to Israel after months of tensions between the two countries over the war in Gaza.

"We are expecting another seven months of fighting,” the prime minister’s national security adviser, Tzachi Hanegbi, told Israel's Kan public radio. He also said Israel’s military had taken control of 75% of the buffer zone along the Gaza-Egypt border, as it pressed ahead with an assault on the southern city of Rafah.

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva removed his ambassador to Israel from his post and sent him to serve as his special representative in Geneva amid a diplomatic spat between the two countries,

El presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, retiró el miércoles al embajador de su país ante Israel tras meses de tensiones entre ambos países debido a la guerra en Gaza.