Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made a surprise visit to Israel on Monday to visit the U.S.-operated Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) -- the hub created to manage humanitarian and security efforts in Gaza following the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

U.S. forces are taking part in overseeing and coordinating aid transfer into the Gaza Strip together with Israel as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's ceasefire plan, an Israeli security official said on Saturday.

Israel is still part of negotiations and "part of the conversation" on the aid distributions, but "decisions will be taken by the wider body," according to a US official familiar with the operation. The United States has replaced Israel in overseeing humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip on Friday,

Israel's military gave CBS News a rare look deep inside Gaza, where many questions still hang over the ruins of war and the future of 2 million Palestinians.

The U.S. gathered intelligence last year that Israel’s military lawyers warned there was evidence that could support war crimes charges against Israel for its military campaign in Gaza – operations reliant on American-supplied weapons,

The presence of the militants, who have killed three Israeli troops, is threatening to unravel the fragile cease-fire.

An official of the Israel Defense Forces told NBC News that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for strikes in retaliation for a Hamas attack in Rafah.

The BBC has been accused of ignoring a second memo alleging bias in its reporting of Israel’s war in Gaza. Sir Vernon Bogdanor, the author of the memo and a constitutional expert, has called on Tim Davie to resign with “immediate effect” as director-general of the BBC.