“An internal U.S. government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of U.S.-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation,” Reuters reports.

Israel Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu says Israel is advancing the destruction of Gaza, and that the Strip will be made totally Jewish, the Times of Israel reports. Said Eliyahu: “The government is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out. Thank God, we are wiping out this evil. We are pushing this

“The Israeli government and President Trump’s Middle East envoy said on Thursday that they were recalling the teams that had been negotiating on a Gaza cease-fire with Hamas, ending for now the hope for the return of some of the last surviving hostages from the terrorist attack on Israel nearly two

“President Emmanuel Macron announced late Thursday that France would recognize Palestine as a state in pursuit of what he called the historical French commitment ‘to a just and durable peace in the Middle East,'” the New York Times reports. “In a surprise statement on X that followed months of

“Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) agreed to support former Rep. Mike Waltz’s nomination to be ambassador to the UN after securing an agreement with the State Department to release $75 million in foreign aid for Haiti and Nigeria,” Axios reports. “Waltz will now likely be confirmed by the full Senate.”