During a press conference in Jerusalem, Austrian Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger expresses solidarity with Israel and says this is a "historic window of opportunity" for peace in the region while her Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar expresses more pessimism on Hamas's will to end the war in Gaza. With Syria under a new leadership after the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement weakened, Saar told journalists his government wanted more normalisation agreements with Arab countries. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES