Early Thursday morning, taxi drivers gathered en masse outside Amsterdam’s Holland Casino. Hours before, Israeli soccer fans had stolen and burned a Palestinian flag, while others attacked a cab — and the drivers, the police said, were heeding an online call to “mobilize.”

Inside the casino, hundreds of Israeli fans waited for the local police to bring them back to their hotels. There had been confrontations nearby, the authorities said.

An Israeli fan who would agree to be identified only by his first name, Barak, said he encountered a young man in the casino with cuts on his hand and face, who had described being ambushed by men on scooters. “All his face was blood,” Barak said in an interview on Friday.

The casino said it had fired a security guard after learning of posts he sent later that evening to a chat group. In a screenshot of the exchange posted online, the guard promises to alert others on the thread if Israeli fans “show up again.”

“Tomorrow after the game in the night,” someone replies, “part two of Jew hunt.”

The attacks near the casino were among the first in a series of assaults on visiting Israeli fans surrounding the Europa League match last week between an Israeli team, Maccabi Tel Aviv, and an Amsterdam-based opponent, Ajax. The Amsterdam authorities are still sorting through what, exactly, happened across the city over that two-day period, including what they have called antisemitic attacks, as well as inflammatory actions by Israeli fans.

The events rattled Amsterdam’s Jewish and Muslim communities and drew an international outcry, including from President Biden and the leaders of Israel and the Netherlands. The police are scheduled to present a more detailed account next week, ahead of a hastily called debate in the City Council over antisemitism.

Glimpses of the vitriol and violence have offered fodder for competing narratives about what happened and why. Those include shaky videos posted on social media, which quickly made their way around the world. They also include screenshots of what purported to be group chats, which The New York Times has not been able to independently verify, but which have added to fierce local and global debates over the incidents.

In Amsterdam, many civic leaders agree on basic facts.

They largely concur that some Israeli fans stoked anger in the city’s Muslim population by chanting incendiary and racist slogans, including declaring that there were “no children” in Gaza anymore, and by defiling the Palestinian flag and vandalizing the cab. They also agree that Israeli fans were assaulted on multiple occasions in different locations, often in hit-and-run attacks on bikes and on foot, and that some attackers appear to have singled out their victims for being Jewish.

This was not the eruption of violence that Europe often sees around big soccer matches, with groups of supporters from rival clubs clashing in the streets, the authorities said. The city’s top prosecutor, René de Beukelaar, said on Friday that officials were investigating whether the attackers were linked in a formal way, and whether there was an “organized connection” between the various acts of violence.

Tensions were already high well before Thursday night’s match in a city with a large Muslim population and a well of anger over Israel’s conduct in the war. The Amsterdam authorities have permitted roughly 2,700 Gaza-related protests this year, according to one city councilman, Rogier Havelaar. Most were peaceful but some turned turbulent. One disrupted the opening ceremony for the city’s new Holocaust museum. Another caused more than $4 million in damage to Amsterdam University, according to school officials’ estimates.

Fearing violence at the soccer game, and furious over the Dutch government’s continuing support of what he calls a genocidal Israeli campaign in Gaza, a prominent Muslim member of the City Council, Sheher Khan, said he had pushed the mayor to bar visiting fans from the match.

Given the political backdrop, Mr. Khan said in an interview, “if you invite a club from Israel, it will lead to demonstrations and confrontation, inevitably.”

The mayor declined his request, he said, which her office confirmed. In her news conference after the attacks, the mayor, Femke Halsem, a member of the left-leaning Dutch green party, said she had been told multiple times by the Netherlands’ national coordinator for security and counterterrorism that there was no concrete threat to the Israeli fans.

On the day of the match, the mayor ordered that a planned protest be moved away from the Ajax stadium for safety reasons. City officials also deployed 800 police officers to the streets around the time of the match.

The attacks appear to have quickly escalated after the match. At least 12 videos verified by The Times depict groups of men questioning, chasing or beating people who were apparently targeted as Maccabi fans. In one video, a man is seen dragging another man, while a third curses at him.

A group of men, several wearing Maccabi fan colors, also chased and beat a man, according to two videos, shot by separate people and verified by The Times.

By Friday morning, the police said, five people were hospitalized, and dozens more had been injured, some with broken legs. The police said 63 had been arrested — though all of the arrests appear to have been made before the match, and not in its chaotic aftermath. Amsterdam officials declared a sort of state of emergency on Saturday, which barred any public protests and empowered the police to search people on the street.

“It feels like an accident in slow motion,” Mr. Khan said in an interview with The Times.

Nassredin Taibi, a 22-year-old student in Amsterdam, said in an interview on Sunday that he was appalled the authorities had not responded to the actions of the Israeli fans.

“Way ahead of the match on Thursday I received messages through my Twitter account that Maccabi hooligans were misbehaving in Amsterdam’s city center, chanting and tearing down a Palestinian flag,” Mr. Taibi said at pro-Palestinian protest that was critical of the media’s coverage of the events.

“Nobody said anything about it,” he said. “I and others spent two days contacting local politicians, to make this known.”

Interviews with eyewitnesses and local officials, as well as screenshots of text exchanges over social media and online videos verified by The Times, suggest that the attackers specifically targeted both Israelis and Jewish people. Some victims reported being stopped and asked if they were Israeli or Jewish. Videos verified by The Times showed others being asked to show their passports, or trying to escape harm by saying they were not Jewish.

The police did not release detailed information on the men they arrested in connection with the incidents.

Mr. Khan said some Muslims in the Netherlands had been angered by the Dutch government’s support for the Israeli bombardment and invasion of Gaza that followed the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel from there by Hamas. They have concluded that the Dutch ideal of human rights does not apply to Muslims, and their frustrations, he said, were inflamed by the actions of some Maccabi fans.

“It is not an excuse for violence,” he said, “but it is an explanation for it.”

All sides agree there was conflict from almost the moment supporters of the Israeli team began to arrive in Amsterdam last week.

On Wednesday, some fans pulled a Palestinian flag from its perch on a downtown building and burned it in a city square, the police confirmed. A Muslim taxi driver’s car was attacked as he sat inside it, Mr. Khan said. A taxi’s dashcam video from Wednesday, verified by The Times, shows a man hitting the car with a long object. The police chief also said a cab had been vandalized that night.

After that attack, the police said, a call went out on Wednesday night for taxi drivers to mobilize, and cars began to gather outside the casino.

On Thursday, hours before the match, police officers filled the streets near Johan Cruyff Arena, bringing horses and dogs with them.

Brian Schuurman, who has seen more than 400 home Ajax matches in his years supporting the club, noticed the officers when he arrived early to meet some friends. He saw fans of both clubs streaming toward the stadium, but also people who he said were clearly not soccer fans, some of them wearing black with their faces obscured.

One of those people confronted a man who was walking toward the stadium with his young son, Mr. Schuurman said, and then punched him. The father, who was wearing a commemorative scarf bearing the names of both teams, fell to the ground. The child, Mr. Schuurman said, looked terrified. The attackers fled before the police arrived.

“It was unprecedented for me,” said Mr. Schuurman.

The police said Friday that protesters had broken into small groups near the stadium seeking out Israeli fans, but that officers had been able to avert confrontations before the match.

There were no physical altercations during the match. Several Ajax supporters at the match said the Israeli fans did not stop cheering during a moment of silence in the stadium for flood victims in Spain, which drew rebukes on social media. Several Israeli fans interviewed after the match said they had not heard the call for silence.

The match ended around 11 p.m., and the exact sequence of events that followed remains unclear.

As people made their way back to the city center and their hotels, the police and other local officials said, many of the Israeli fans came under “hit and run” attacks from masked assailants who often rode powerful electric bicycles with fat tires — fast and deft vehicles that allowed for quick escapes through the many back streets and alleys of the city center.

The police escorted some Israelis away from the stadium. Others lingered, or took trains back to the central city. Some described harrowing journeys back to their hotels.

Ofek Ziv, 27, a financial adviser from Petah Tikva, Israel, said he was struck in the head by a stone soon after leaving the central station following the match, while he was putting his Maccabi T-shirt inside his backpack. He and a friend continued walking when they heard a loud blast behind them: a firecracker. Later came a smoke grenade. They saw frightened couples, a scared teenager.

Mr. Ziv’s friend, Malhem, is an Arabic speaker. Mr. Ziv said Malhem started talking in Arabic to people around them to make the group seem as if they weren’t Israelis. They then started running.

“It was a kind of shock in which you had to rely on your survival instinct,” Mr. Ziv said.

Some Maccabi fans appear to have geared up for confrontation.

A video taken after midnight by a teenage Dutch YouTube personality and verified by The Times shows a group of men, many wearing Maccabi fan colors, picking up pipes and boards from a construction site, then chasing and beating a man. The incident was also captured in a video shot by a photographer, Annet de Graaf.

In the YouTube video, the Dutch teenager says that Israeli fans also threw rocks at a house draped with a Palestinian flag, before the police loaded them into a bus. Separately, a group of men, some in Maccabi fan gear, charge into the alley, the video shows, where the YouTuber said there was another group of people.

Some Israeli fans said in interviews that they had armed themselves on Thursday as a defensive measure.

Arie Kegen, 49, from Ramat Gan, Israel, was in Amsterdam with a group that included four teenagers and an older man. Mr. Kegen described a walk back to his group’s hotel from the train station in which they encountered men with knives and clubs.

When Mr. Kegen and his friends saw a broken wooden bed frame on the street, he said, they took it apart to use the wooden panels as clubs in case they needed to fend off attackers. He tossed away his stick when requested to do so by the police, he said.

“I told them: ‘Now is our chance to run to the hotel. Grab the sticks, and let’s run to the hotel together,’” Mr. Kegen said he told his group.

Friday morning brought calmer streets, and consequences.

Prime Minister Dick Schoof canceled plans to speak at a global climate conference. He plans to convene two meetings of ministers this week on the Amsterdam attacks and on antisemitism.

Israeli officials organized flights to bring hundreds of Maccabi fans home. After arriving home, some Israeli fans and those who greeted them at the airport repeated the incendiary chants against Arabs and Gazans, according to a video verified by The Times.

By Saturday, the police said most of those arrested in connection with the incidents had been released, though many were ticketed and are still suspects. Four remained in custody.

On Sunday afternoon, about 150 people gathered to protest in the central city, in violation of the municipal ban. Many carried Palestinian flags. Signs proclaimed, “We want our streets back.” In less than 30 minutes, the police arrived to break up the crowd.

Rosanne Kropman and David F. Gallagher contributed reporting from Amsterdam, and Johnatan Reiss from Tel Aviv. Devon Lum and Arijeta Lajka contributed reporting from New York.

The sellout crowd was bathed in purple light and the screens ringing the stadium flashed a countdown to a clubby beat. The latest conquest in Saudi Arabia’s unstoppable advance into the world of sports — soccer, golf, boxing, car racing, now tennis — was about to begin. The Women’s Tennis Association Finals had come to Riyadh.

For one night, the capital of an authoritarian, conservative kingdom where progress on women’s rights is still stop-and-go was about to be home to one of the most prestigious events in women’s tennis.

“Change the game,” an announcer intoned just before the players in the singles final, Coco Gauff of the United States and Zheng Qinwen of China, emerged onto the court to huge cheers from the crowd, which included many Saudi women. “Redefine power.”

In another place, those words might have come off as little more than a girl-power slogan for women’s sports. But in Saudi Arabia on Saturday night, it was the host country redefining who held power in women’s tennis and beyond.

For years now, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto ruler, has used Saudi oil riches to remake his staid kingdom into a global player with glitz to match, pairing tectonic social changes with intensifying repression.

Sports are a major part of the crown prince’s transformational push. Saudi Arabia muscled into professional golf by pouring $2 billion into an upstart competitor to the PGA Tour, which disdained the Saudi league before eventually deciding to partner with it. The country burst onto the international soccer scene by purchasing the English Premier League team Newcastle United, luring some of the biggest names in soccer to the Saudi Pro League and winning a bid to host the 2034 World Cup.

Moving into tennis, Saudi Arabia recently hosted the Six Kings Slam, an exhibition showcasing the top men’s players. And it struck a three-year deal with the financially struggling WTA to bring its finals to Riyadh in part with the promise of awarding some $15 million in prize money this year. Those are the highest winnings in the history of women’s tennis, satisfying players’ demands for prize parity with men.

More professional tennis events are likely to follow.

With every move has come controversy over the kingdom’s human rights record. But on Saturday night, the power of what Saudi Arabia has bought itself — and the excitement the changes are generating at home — was there for all to see.

As the players began warming up, the D.J. played the Bob Marley song “No Woman No Cry” as people in the audience sang along. Ms. Gauff and Ms. Zheng went on to battle it out for three hours. The Chinese fans whooped for Ms. Zheng, but hijab-wearing young Saudi women would not be drowned out, chanting, “Let’s go, Coco, you can do this!”

Ms. Gauff had publicly weighed the pros and cons of playing in Saudi Arabia in remarks before arriving there, saying that she looked forward to promoting the sport in a new place while expressing reservations about the country’s record on L.G.B.T.Q. and women’s rights. But she stuck to the positive in a news conference after winning the final, declaring the event a success that would inspire young Saudis.

“Just to show young girls that, you know, their dreams are possible, I’m literally no different than they are. We just maybe come from different places,” Ms. Gauff said.

Saudi girls had not had the chance to watch professional tennis events in their own country, the way she had done when she was young, she added. But now that had changed.

By the time she retired, she said, she hoped there would be a Saudi Grand Slam champion.

Some women’s tennis players and officials have embraced the chance to boost the sport in a new country (and bring in revenue aplenty from a host with means). Others, including a few of the sport’s biggest stars, have criticized the WTA’s decision on human rights grounds.

“We lost our moral high ground when the women decided to go there,” the tennis legend Martina Navratilova told The New York Times in October. “You have to show me some progress first. Women have to be equal citizens under the law. Otherwise, we might as well play in North Korea.”

Saudi women are driving, entering the work force and moving out on their own in record numbers after changes put in place by Prince Mohammed. But they still need the permission of a male guardian to marry.

Homosexuality remains criminalized, something that has come under particular fire in a sport with a groundbreaking history of openly L.G.B.T.Q. champions. (Even so, Billie Jean King, an icon in tennis not only for her on-court accomplishments but also for her gay rights advocacy, has endorsed the WTA’s choice of location, arguing that engaging is the only way to effect change.)

And the kingdom’s image still bears the taint of the gruesome killing in 2018 of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who occasionally criticized the Saudi government, which American intelligence agencies later concluded had been ordered by Prince Mohammed. That was only the best-known instance of the prince’s sweeping crackdown against critics and political opponents, which has sent hundreds of Saudis, including prominent women’s rights activists, to prison in recent years.

The dark side of Saudi Arabia’s transformation has led many critics to accuse the kingdom of “sportswashing,” paying to associate itself with high-profile athletes and popular events to distract from its rights record. The Saudi government has rejected such allegations.

But many Saudis, especially young ones, are thrilled that new options for work, for fun, for mingling with the opposite sex, for wearing what they want and so much more are opening up at a pace that would have been impossible just a decade ago.

First came movie theaters and concerts, shattering the once-sleepy kingdom’s decades-old religiously motivated bans on most forms of entertainment. Then came raves in the desert, marquee boxing matches and, now, tennis matches.

“The Western world can keep reporting that our country is sportswashing, or whatever, but what matters is that my sisters and I can watch our favorite sports stars right here at home,” said Maryam al-Shammeri, who was in the crowd for the WTA final on Saturday night with her brother and two sisters.

Unlike many women in liberalizing Riyadh, where the morality police used to scold any woman who was not covered head to foot but where many now go unveiled or wear loose abayas over T-shirts and jeans, the sisters had stuck to wearing conservative black niqabs to the match.

To Ms. al-Shammeri, there was no contradiction between their decision not to show skin and their embrace of women’s tennis.

“What we define as feminist is not determined by what we wear in public,” she said.

Sports figures, artists, celebrities and other Westerners who have come to Saudi Arabia in recent years have cast events such as the WTA Finals as an opportunity to bring Western-style liberal values to the kingdom.

Yet while Saudi society continues to open up, any changes have come on Prince Mohammed’s terms.

In an interview, Arij Mutabagani, the president of the Saudi Tennis Federation, dismissed accusations of “sportswashing” by Saudi Arabia.

“I’ve heard that a million and one times,” she said. “For me, it’s just, please come and see what we’re doing and please be part of our transformation that we’re having. Help us transform.”

But, in a flash of confidence, she added: “We’re going to do it whether you help us or not, by the way.”

Donald J. Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency could spell a lonely and dangerous stretch for Europe, which is already mired in economic stagnation and rattled by war on its eastern doorstep. It is a moment that European leaders agree demands renewed and forceful leadership from the continent’s two largest economies.

But France and Germany, which are also the European Union’s most important countries, are struggling to answer the call. They themselves are falling victim to the same political forces that helped Mr. Trump gain popularity among conservatives and swing voters in the United States. Among them: backlash against rapid consumer price increases; anxiety and anger over increased immigration; and the rapid erosion of public trust in political elites.

Mainstream political parties have bled support. Populists and nationalists, including once-fringe parties on the far right, have surged.

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Israel’s military struck a house in northern Gaza where displaced families were sheltering on Sunday, killing at least 34 people, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense, the main emergency service in the territory.

Dr. Mohammed Al Moghayer, a spokesman for the group, said that 14 children were among the dead after the strike in the city of Jabaliya on Sunday morning. People were still trapped under the rubble, he added, warning that the death toll was likely to rise.

Wafa, the Palestinian Authority’s news agency, reported that the house, which was “crowded with residents and displaced people,” was destroyed. It said that a “large number” of wounded people were taken to the nearby Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City.

In response to questions about the strike on Sunday, Israel’s military said that it had hit “a terrorist infrastructure site” in Jabaliya where militants who posed a threat to troops had been operating and that it had taken “numerous steps to mitigate the risk of harming civilians.” The military, which said that the details of the episode were under review, did not provide evidence for its assertions.

Ahmed Radwan lives next to the house that was struck in Jabaliya and said its residents were all civilians. He said he heard the explosion as he was about to begin his dawn prayer.

“It was terrifying,” he said in a voice message on Sunday, adding that his home was severely damaged by the strike.

“When I went outside to see what happened, I found my neighbors, the Allush family, scattered in the street from the intensity of the blast,” Mr. Radwan said.

“Some were missing a leg, others an arm, and many were dead,” he added.

Hours after the strike, a number of bodies were still under the rubble of the multistory family home, Mr. Radwan said.

“We don’t know how to get them out,” he said. “All we have is a shovel and a grub hoe.”

Dr. Hussam Abu Safyia, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabaliya, said that his hospital had received “distressing calls about people trapped under the rubble” on Sunday but was unable to help. Kamal Adwan is one of the last semi-functional hospitals in northern Gaza but has been damaged by Israeli attacks and a raid over the last weeks.

Jabaliya has come under repeated attack as the Israeli military has stepped up an offensive in areas of northern Gaza over the past month, saying it was trying to eliminate a regrouped Hamas presence there. Israel’s military has issued widespread evacuation orders for parts of northern Gaza, and Israeli troops, tanks and armed drones have bombarded the area almost daily.

Two Israeli soldiers were injured in the fighting in northern Gaza on Sunday, the military said.

The United Nations, aid groups and the Gazan health authorities have warned that the Israeli offensive in the northern part of the enclave is causing widespread devastation and has killed hundreds of civilians.

The Israeli military’s evacuation orders have displaced nearly 100,000 people from areas of northern Gaza to Gaza City over the last month, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. It said that 75,000 to 95,000 people were estimated to remain in northern Gaza.

Some people have refused to evacuate out of fear of being permanently displaced from their homes. Some worry that they would face greater threats from destroyed roads or frequent bombardment if they were to move elsewhere, while others lack the financial means to relocate.

People who remain in northern Gaza are facing “an imminent and substantial likelihood of famine,” a U.N.-backed panel warned on Friday. The panel, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, said that action was needed “within days, not weeks” to alleviate the immense suffering in the enclave.

A separate strike on a residential building in Gaza City killed five Palestinians on Sunday, the Palestinian Civil Defense said in a statement, adding that the search for survivors was continuing.

But the emergency service added that its teams were “forcibly disabled” from working in all areas of northern Gaza because of the “ongoing targeting and Israeli aggression,” leaving thousands there “without humanitarian and medical care.”

Ameera Harouda contributed reporting.

He met with the father-in-law of Donald J. Trump’s daughter Tiffany. He wrote a letter to Mr. Trump condemning the assassination attempt against him. And he quickly congratulated Mr. Trump on his presidential victory.

These overtures by Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority, are part of a broad strategy to rehabilitate his once adversarial relationship with Mr. Trump as Palestinians reckon with an incoming president who expressed near unreserved backing for Israel in his first term.

Even Hamas, the armed group that led the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that ignited the Gaza war and a bitter rival of the Palestinian Authority, has adopted a more cautious tone toward Mr. Trump. Some Palestinians in Gaza, who have endured a devastating Israeli bombardment, expressed hope that Mr. Trump could end the war, while others said they were skeptical.

As president, Mr. Trump advanced policies that infuriated the Palestinian Authority, which has limited autonomy over parts of the West Bank under Israeli occupation. He recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, cut off aid to the United Nations agency that supports Palestinian refugees, presented a peace plan that favored Israel and helped hammer out agreements between Israel and Arab states that sidestepped Palestinian ambitions to achieve independence.

Incensed, Mr. Abbas barred senior Palestinian officials from contact with people in the Trump administration.

But Mr. Trump has publicly called for the war in Gaza to stop. Mr. Abbas appears to be reversing course, hoping to influence the president-elect’s views on the conflict and cease-fire talks.

Mr. Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel were among the first to congratulate Mr. Trump on his election victory. In his letter, Mr. Abbas said that Palestinian officials “look forward to engaging with you to work toward peace, security and prosperity for our region,” according to a copy obtained by The New York Times.

On Friday, Mr. Abbas spoke to Mr. Trump by phone, and the two discussed the possibility of meeting in the near future, according to Ziad Abu Amr, a close confidant of Mr. Abbas and a senior Palestinian official.

But Mr. Abbas’s efforts to reach out to Mr. Trump started well before the election. Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law, Massad Boulos, a Lebanese-American businessman who has served as an unofficial emissary of the Trump campaign to Arab American voters, helped Mr. Abbas communicate with Mr. Trump in recent months, as has Bishara Bahbah, a Palestinian American backer of Mr. Trump, according to people involved in the effort.

Mr. Abbas met Mr. Boulos on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in September in New York. While Palestinian officials described the meeting as a part of an outreach effort to Mr. Trump, Mr. Boulos told The Times it was “purely personal” and said that he didn’t inform Mr. Trump about the meeting before or after.

Mr. Abu Amr, who attended the meeting, said Mr. Boulos conveyed Mr. Trump’s desire to end wars around the world, including in the Gaza Strip.

Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump, did not respond to questions about the meeting. But when asked about Mr. Boulos’s role in October, she said the campaign was grateful for his “very effective outreach” to Arab Americans.

In addition, Mr. Boulos and Mr. Bahbah said they helped facilitate the delivery of a letter from Mr. Abbas to Mr. Trump in July condemning an assassination attempt against him, which Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social. In the letter, Mr. Abbas wished Mr. Trump “strength and safety” and said assassination attempts were “despicable acts.” Mr. Trump replied that Mr. Abbas’s letter was “so nice” and declared “everything will be good.”

“We want to maintain a good working relationship because no one can ignore the role the U.S. can play in resolving the conflict,” Mr. Abu Amr said.

Even under the Biden administration, Mr. Abbas has confronted a host of challenges, including international demands for overhauls to the Palestinian Authority that could help it play a role in the Gaza Strip. And with no end in sight so far to the war, Mr. Netanyahu’s government — the most right wing in Israel’s history — has frequently taken hostile positions against the Authority.

The Biden administration has called for a Palestinian state, which Mr. Netanyahu has rejected.

At the September meeting with Mr. Boulos, Mr. Abbas said he was ready to make peace with Israel on the basis of a two-state solution and expressed willingness to host international observers in a future Palestinian state to ensure Israel’s security, Mr. Bahbah said.

The Palestinian leader also said that there would be “no fighting, no incursions, and no attacks whatsoever” from a future Palestinian state, Mr. Bahbah said. Mr. Abu Amr confirmed Mr. Bahbah’s comments. Mr. Abbas, for his part, has long vowed opposition to violence and has suggested that an American-led NATO force could patrol a future Palestinian state.

Despite Mr. Abbas’s charm offensive, Mr. Trump’s history of supporting Israel was not lost on Palestinian officials.

“When we hear Trump say he wants peace, we take that to heart, but peace has to be based on Palestinian independence and self-determination,” said Husam Zomlot, the head of the Palestinian mission to Britain, who had the same role in Washington at the beginning of the last Trump administration. If Mr. Trump tries to “push us around, we can still shout ‘no.’”

While efforts to court Mr. Trump could backfire, the Palestinian leadership lacks options other than trying to engage with the president-elect and Arab and European allies who can reinforce its positions with him, analysts said.

“Do they have another choice? Objectively, I don’t believe they do,” said Ibrahim Dalalsha, the director of the Horizon Center, a Palestinian political research group. “Should they turn to international agencies? That hasn’t worked and it won’t work.”

“They only have one option,” he said.

For its part, Hamas, which has been outspoken in its criticism of the Biden administration, appeared to calibrate its reaction carefully to Mr. Trump’s victory. “Our stance on the new American administration will depend on its positions and practical policy toward the Palestinian people and its legitimate rights,” it said on Wednesday.

Palestinians in Gaza have borne the brunt of Israel’s onslaught, and some said they hoped Mr. Trump could end the war in Gaza.

“I hope Trump steps in as a savior to bring some order to the turmoil caused by ongoing conflicts involving Iran with its proxies and Israel,” said Muhanned al-Farra, who once owned a car parts shop and is now sheltering in Khan Younis, Gaza, with his family. “I hope his election will bring positive change to this war-torn city.”

Others were more pessimistic.

“The U.S. has always sided with the occupying state of Israel,” said Muhanned Shaath, a youth and community activist in Gaza City, “so I doubt much will change, especially if Trump keeps pushing his old plans.”

Bilal Shbair contributed reporting.

An Israeli strike on a village north of Beirut killed at least 23 people and wounded six others on Sunday, Lebanon’s health ministry said, amid what appeared to be a new diplomatic push for a potential cease-fire there between Israel and Hezbollah.

Ron Dermer, Israel’s minister of strategic affairs and a close confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is expected to visit Washington in the coming days and was in Russia last week for discussions regarding the possibility of a Russian role in enforcing a potential cease-fire in Lebanon, according to an official familiar with the matter.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said significant efforts were underway to reach at least a temporary cease-fire in the coming days or weeks.

Mr. Netanyahu said on Sunday that he had spoken three times in recent days with President-elect Donald J. Trump to tighten the alliance between Israel and the United States.

Many former Israeli officials and analysts have warned that the final weeks of the Biden administration could prove challenging for Israel and its ongoing wars in Gaza and Lebanon against Iranian-backed groups. For example, a U.S. threat that it could cut off military support to Israel if the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza does not dramatically improve could be fueling Israel’s motivation to show good-will and readiness for a truce on the Lebanon front, they say, though there is no guarantee the efforts will succeed.

Hours after the strike in Almat, in the Jbeil district on the Lebanese coast, rescue workers were still searching the rubble, the Lebanese authorities said, adding that three children were among the dead.

Photographs from the scene showed a bulldozer on a steep hillside scooping piles of debris from at least one building that appeared to have been destroyed, while emergency workers also picked through the wreckage. The twisted remains of several vehicles also stood nearby.

There was no immediate comment from Israel’s military about the strike in the Jbeil district, which is around 18 miles northeast of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

The Israeli military has been widening its campaign against Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group, across Lebanon in recent weeks. On Sunday, Syria’s state news agency reported explosions near Damascus, which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said were from an Israeli strike on buildings that housed Hezbollah members. The observatory, a British-based group that monitors violence in Syria, said that three people were killed. Israel’s military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

But even as Israel’s military said it was pounding “dozens” of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Sunday and Hezbollah fired more rockets across the border, Israel’s new defense minister added to the sense that Israel might be signaling readiness to wrap up the fighting when he declared in a speech on Sunday that the military had essentially “defeated Hezbollah.”

The defense minister, Israel Katz, said the military needed “to keep up the pressure” and “realize the fruits of that victory” by ensuring a new security situation in southern Lebanon and preventing the rearmament of Israel’s adversaries.

Mr. Netanyahu said his talks with Mr. Trump were “very good and important.”

“We see eye-to-eye on the Iranian threat in all its aspects, and on the dangers they reflect,” Mr. Netanyahu said in a video statement, adding, “We also see the great opportunities facing Israel, in the area of peace and its expansion, and in other areas.”

Mr. Trump has said that he wants to end wars, not start them.

Israel’s operations against Hezbollah were initially focused on southern Lebanon, with the stated aim of crippling the militant group’s ability to fire rockets across the border into Israel. But they have expanded to include cities and towns across Lebanon, including places far from that border — like the Jbeil district.

Another target of the widening campaign has been the Bekaa Valley in northeastern Lebanon, which is home to the historic city of Baalbek. Israeli strikes killed 20 people in Baalbek and the towns around it on Saturday, according to Lebanon’s health ministry.

Baalbek has been hit repeatedly in recent weeks. Dozens of people have been killed and most of the city’s population has fled. The Israeli military said it had struck “Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure sites” near Baalbek and the port city of Tyre on Saturday.

Lebanon’s health ministry cited five separate deadly incidents in Baalbek and the surrounding area on Saturday, including one in which 11 people were killed. In a statement on Saturday night, it added that 14 people were wounded. The ministry gave few details of the attacks and did not say whether the casualties were civilians or Hezbollah fighters.

Hezbollah’s cross-border attacks have persisted even as Israel’s campaign has intensified. The group fired 70 projectiles — likely missiles or drones — across the frontier on Saturday and at least 20 on Sunday, according to Israel’s military. Many were intercepted by Israel’s air defenses or fell in open areas, it said.

Russia said its air defenses had shot down waves of Ukrainian drones over Moscow’s suburbs on Sunday morning, responding to what it called a “massive” attack that wounded at least one person and temporarily halted flights at three regional airports.

Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said on Telegram that 32 drones had been shot down over the suburbs of Domodedovo, Ramenskoye and Kolomna in the largest such attack on the capital since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The Russian Defense Ministry said 34 drones were shot down above Moscow in the attack.

The governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, described the attack as “massive” and said that a 52-year-old woman was hospitalized with “burns to her face, neck and hands.”

Flights at three regional airports, Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky, were halted on Sunday morning for several hours because of the drone attack, which was also directed at other regions in western Russia.

In total, the Defense Ministry said it had shot down 70 Ukrainian drones over six Russian regions on Sunday, including the ones in Moscow. The Ukrainian military did not immediately make any announcements on the attacks reported by Russia.

Also in the attacks early Sunday, local officials said 23 drones had been shot down in the Russian border regions of Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk, where drone strikes occur more regularly. Drones also struck the western Kaluga and Tula regions.

Russia often unleashes drones on Ukraine, and while Ukraine regularly hits Russian border regions, attacks on Moscow are less common.

Russia’s capital was last subject to a large drone attack in September, when 20 drones were shot down above the Moscow region, according to the Defense Ministry. During those strikes, one woman died — the first death in a Ukrainian attack near Moscow since the war began — and several other people were injured.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, touched on his country’s growing arsenal of long-range weapons in an evening address on Saturday. Mr. Zelensky said that domestic defense companies had ramped up production of long-range drones and missiles to shoot back at Russia and that “we will scale this up.”

Ukraine, he said, has reached what he called a “milestone” in developing a domestically produced ballistic missile. Kyiv now has produced 100 such missiles, he said, adding that he would provide no additional details.

In August, Mr. Zelensky said that Ukraine had test-fired the missile. Ukraine’s ballistic missile program began before the Russian invasion, working on a short-range missile called Hrim-2, or Thunder-2. It is not clear if any have been used in combat.

Ukraine also said it had been targeted by large numbers of drones since Saturday night. The country’s Defense Ministry said Russia had launched 145 drones across the country overnight, calling it a “record number” of drones in a post on Facebook. Of those, 62 were shot down, it said.

Drone strikes have become an almost nightly occurrence across Ukraine in recent months. In September and October, Kyiv was subject to attacks almost every night.

The attacks have come as Russian troops have advanced in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine and have clawed back more territory in the Kursk region of western Russia that Ukrainian forces seized in a surprise offensive this year.

Ukraine’s top military commander, Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, said Saturday in a social media post that he had told the American commander in Europe, Gen. Christopher G. Cavoli, that the battlefield situation was difficult and worsening, and that North Korean troops were now training to enter the fight on the Russian side.

Russia has also been stepping up missile attacks on Ukrainian cities. Late last week, 11 people were killed, most of them in the eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, and dozens wounded in Russian missile and drone strikes, according to Ukrainian officials.

In overnight strikes Saturday to Sunday throughout Ukraine, three people were killed and 18 wounded, the local authorities reported.

Last month the Ukrainian military said it tracked a record 2,023 pilotless aircraft against civilian and military targets, with the vast majority shot down or disabled by electronic warfare systems.

Andrew E. Kramer and Nataliia Novosolova contributed reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine.