The European Union and Israel have agreed on a deal to allow more food, fuel and other vital aid into the starvation-gripped Gaza Strip, with an E.U. presence at border crossings, European and Israeli officials said Thursday.

The decision followed discussions with the European Union, which has pressed Israel to ease the dire humanitarian conditions for Palestinians in the territory.

Israel believes deeply buried stocks of enriched uranium at one Iranian nuclear facility hit by the U.S. military are potentially retrievable, a senior Israeli official said.And the agency that built the U.

Israel concluded that some Iranian uranium survived attacks. Some of Iran’s underground stockpile of near-bomb-grade enriched uranium survived U.S. and Israeli attacks last mont

Israel believes at least some of Iran’s highly enriched uranium was buried by U.S. strikes and not destroyed or moved beforehand.

As Israel and Hamas move closer to a ceasefire agreement, Israel says it wants to maintain troops in a southern corridor of the Gaza Strip — a condition that could derail the talks

A US special envoy said a Gaza deal was close, and that a 60-day ceasefire and the return of 10 surviving hostages could be announced this week.