Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he told President-elect Donald J. Trump that the country had delivered “a tough blow” against Hamas and Hezbollah.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he had a “very warm” phone call with US President-elect Donald Trump, during which they spoke about the need for Israel’s victory in its war on Hamas in Gaza.

By Maayan Lubell and Jeff Mason JERUSALEM/WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump about developments in Syria and a recent push to secure the release of Israeli and foreign hostages held by Hamas in Gaza,

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he will double the Israeli population of the Golan Heights following the fall of Syria's Bashar Al-Assad. The Israeli government approved the plan Sunday.

Israel's "demographic development" plan to increase settler numbers only applies to the area of the Golan Heights that Israel seized during the Six Day War in 1967 and later annexed in 1981 and not to territory taken since al-Assad's ouster.

Eyewitness footage shows the moment an Israeli air attack hit the Syrian coastal city of Tartous. Locals of Scotts Valley, California are still reeling after an EF1 tornado touched down in the area on Saturday.

Israel has once again attacked military targets in Syria. Explosions were heard in the provinces of Latakia and Tartus, among others, where the Russians have their military bases. One of the explosions near Tartus was so powerful that it registered as a magnitude 3 earthquake on seismic sensors in the area.