Israel's military chief has pushed back against Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to seize areas of Gaza it doesn't already control, three Israeli officials said, as the prime minister faces increasing pressure over the war both at home and abroad.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hinting at wider military action in devastated Gaza even as some former army and intelligence chiefs call for an end to the war

In a tense meeting, Eyal Zamir warned the prime minister that taking the rest of Gaza could trap the military and lead to harm for the remaining hostages.

Thousands of people were evacuated from the center of the east German city of Dresden on Wednesday, as authorities there prepared to defuse a World War II bomb discovered near one of the bridges spanning the Elbe River.

Around 80 years after the war, Germany remains littered with unexploded bombs, often uncovered during construction work.

A chunk of central Dresden was cleared out Wednesday morning after a 550-pound British World War II bomb was found near a busy bridge—still armed with a detonator. Authorities ordered the evacuation of a roughly 3,