<p>Prime Minister told members of a visiting US delegation that "if the US won't veto the UN decision today for a ceasefire that is unconditional on the release of the hostage, I will cancel the Israeli delegation to Washington."</p><p>Earlier on Monday, the Americans notified Minister Ron Dermer that they intended to pass two independent and unrelated resolutions in the Security Council, one calling for a ceasefire and the other calling for the release of the hostages, both unconditionally.</p>

<p>National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir dismissed the resolution passed this afternoon by the UN Security Council calling for a ceasefire in Gaza for the month of Ramadan.</p><p>"Um-Shmum," Ben-Gvir said, using an Israeli phrase of derision for the UN coined by former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.</p>

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Kalashnikovs, grenades, explosives, mortars and magazines found in maternity ward during operation at Shifa Hospital.

Residents reported about a bullet that hit a building. IDF troops arrived at the scene and began conducting searches.

Rabbi Menachem Shwekey, father of singers Yaakov and Yosef Chaim Shwekey, passed away on Purim.

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Mevaser Dwight, a student in the Karnei Shomron Hesder Yeshiva, and Second Lieutenant Noam Alon, a student at Yeshivat Hakotel, who were both seriously wounded in Gaza, were filmed dancing at their respective yeshivas.