Rubio arrives in Israel amid tensions over strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar

US secretary of state says Trump not happy' about Israeli attack that targeted Hamas officials in Doha for Gaza talks

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has arrived in Israel seeking to mend a rift with Washington's other allies in the region over Israel's attempted assassination of Hamas leaders in Qatar and the accelerated expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank.

In talks with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Rubio will try to balance criticism of the Israeli airstrike on a Doha building, which killed aides to a Hamas leader and a Qatari security officer, with a message of overall support for Israel before the expected formal recognition of Palestine by a number of other US allies, including the UK, France, Canada, Australia and Belgium.