Protests supporting Gaza take place in Europe

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized for this month's deadly strike in Doha in a call with the Qatari prime minister during his meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday, according to the White House.

"As a first step, Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed his deep regret that Israel’s missile strike against Hamas targets in Qatar unintentionally killed a Qatari serviceman," the White House said in a statement. "He further expressed regret that, in targeting Hamas leadership during hostage negotiations, Israel violated Qatari sovereignty and affirmed that Israel will not conduct such an attack again in the future."

According to a statement from his office, Netanyahu told the Qatari prime minister, "I want you to know that Israel regrets that one of your citizens was killed in our strike. I want to assure you that Israel was targeting Hamas, not Qataris." 

Netanyahu added his assurance that Israel "has no plan to violate your sovereignty again in the future, and I have made that commitment to the president," according to this office.

The three leaders also "discussed a proposal for ending the war in Gaza," the White House statement said.

ABC News has also confirmed the content of this call with two other officials, including a source close to Netanyahu.

Five members of Hamas and a member of Qatar's Internal Security Force were killed earlier this month in an Israeli strike on Doha targeting senior Hamas leadership in the country for ceasefire talks, according to statements from officials on each side.

Hamas' senior leaders survived the strike, Hamas said.

President Donald Trump told reporters he was "very confident" there would soon be peace in Gaza while welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday.

"I am. Very confident," he said when asked if he was confident there will be peace in Gaza anytime soon.

Asked if everyone was on board with his 21-point ceasefire proposal, Trump repeated, "Very confident."

The exchange happened as Netanyahu was standing next to Trump.

-ABC News' Fritz Farrow

Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday issued six demands to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the latter's Gaza ceasefire talks with President Donald Trump at the White House.

Smotrich heads the Religious Zionism party, which holds seven seats in parliament and is in coalition with Netanyahu’s government. Though he wished the prime minister "much success" in a Monday post to X, Smotrich also said that his party "will not compromise" on key demands.

The finance minister said that "Israel's security is not achieved through political agreements that are not worth the paper they are written on or through commitments and guarantees that hold no water."

Smotrich demanded that Netanyahu ensure "a true and complete withdrawal of Hamas from Gaza and a full and genuine disarmament of all terror infrastructures above and below ground."

The Israel Defense Forces, he said, should "forever" remain deployed at the perimeters ringing Gaza plus in the Philadelphi Corridor that runs along the strip’s southern border with Egypt, while retaining full operational freedom across the territory.

Smotrich demanded there be no agreement on Palestinian Authority or Qatari involvement in Gazan governance, nor anything that supports the concept of a future independent Palestinian state.

The minister said that Gazans who want to leave the strip should be allowed to do so through Egypt to "continue their lives in other places that agree to accept them."

Smotrich also urged Netanyahu to "utilize the historic opportunity" to "politically and practically" cement Israeli control over the occupied Palestinian West Bank.

The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry on Monday reported that 50 more people had been killed and 184 injured across the strip in the previous 24 hours.

Among the dead were five people who were killed while seeking humanitarian aid, the ministry said in a post to Telegram. Forty-eight people were also injured while seeking aid, the post said.

The deaths bring the total death toll in Gaza since the ongoing war began on Oct. 7, 2023, to 66,055, the ministry said, with 168,346 people injured.

The casualty toll since Israel broke the last ceasefire on March 18 stands at 13,187 people killed and 56,305 people injured, the ministry said.