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A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the past 24 hours. Here’s today’s news:
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
Israeli military strikes killed at least 40 Palestinians across Gaza as Israeli forces closed in on Jabalia today. Palestinian health officials said Israeli fire killed at least 11 people in Al-Falouja, the largest of Gaza’s eight refugee camps, while an Israeli missile killed 10 others in eastern Khan Younis. The U.N. says around 400,000 Palestinians remain trapped in the north. Nidal Al-Mughrabi reports for Reuters.
Aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian disaster in northern Gaza amid an increased Israeli military push and evacuation orders. “In the north, an already starving population has been cut off from food for two weeks while trying to dodge bombs and bullets in a kill zone they cannot leave,” Save the Children’s Middle East Regional Director said in a statement. Ruwaida Amer and Zoe Magee report for ABC News.
ISRAEL-HEZBOLLAH CONFLICT
An Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in northern Lebanon yesterday, killing at least 21 people, according to the Lebanese Red Cross. The strike hit part of the country’s Christian heartland in the north, far from Hezbollah’s main areas of influence in the country’s south and east. Meanwhile, Netanyahu said Israel “will continue to strike Hezbollah without mercy everywhere in Lebanon — including Beirut.” Yahya Habchiti and Kareem Chehayeb report for AP News; Benjamin Brown and Eve Brennan report for CNN.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday rejected accusations that Israeli troops had deliberately targeted UNIFIL peacekeepers in Lebanon and called for the mission to be withdrawn from combat regions. A UNIFIL spokesperson later confirmed the mission is staying “under a security council mandate.” Reuters reports.
The U.N. Security Council expressed “strong concern” yesterday for U.N. peacekeepers after Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon. Edith M. Lederer reports for AP News.
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR — U.S. RESPONSE
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Sunday that the IDF is not carrying out a “starvation plan” in Gaza proposed by former Israeli generals, according to Israeli officials. Barak Ravid reports for Axios.
A U.S. National Security Council spokesperson said the White House had “made our concerns clear to the Israeli government” after an Israeli airstrike yesterday on a hospital compound in Gaza set fire to tents housing displaced people, killing four. The Israeli military claimed the hospital was being used as a Hamas command center. Ephrat Livni reports for the New York Times; the Washington Post reports.
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR — INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE
Top German leaders blocked weapons sales to Israel pending assurances that it would not use German weapons against civilian targets, a source told POLITICO.
ISRAEL-IRAN CONFLICT — U.S. RESPONSE
Netanyahu told the Biden administration that he is willing to strike military rather than oil or nuclear facilities in Iran, two officials said, suggesting a more limited counter strike aimed at preventing a full-scale war. In response to the reports, Netanyahu’s office said that Israel will listen to the United States, but make final decisions based on its national interests. Shira Rubin and Ellen Nakashima report for the Washington Post; Nathan Williams reports for BBC News.
ISRAEL-HEZBOLLAH CONFLICT — REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE
In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy, and Britain expressed “deep concern” about Israeli attacks on UNIFIL.
Qatar’s Emir accused Israel of choosing to expand its “aggression” to “implement pre-prepared plans” in the West Bank and Lebanon. BBC News reports.
OTHER U.S. DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENTS
A North Carolina man allegedly carrying an assault rifle was arrested on charges of making threats against FEMA employees working on hurricane relief, Rutherford County authorities confirmed yesterday. Brianna Sacks and Dan Lamothe report for the Washington Post.
Google signed a “world first” deal to use small nuclear reactors to generate the energy needed to power its AI data centers, the company announced yesterday. Regulatory agencies will need to approve the plan. Alex Lawson reports for the Guardian.
A man arrested near former President Trump’s weekend rally yesterday denied that he was trying to assassinate Trump, stating he is a longtime supporter of the ex-president. Local police authorities have stood by their claim of preventing a possible third assassination attempt. Julia Ainsley reports for NBC News.
Biden’s press-secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has been blocking national security spokesperson John Kirby from joining her on stage at White House press briefings, sources told Axios. Both parties declined to comment. Alex Thompson reports.
RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR
“Several thousand” North Korean infantry soldiers are undergoing training in Russia now and could be deployed to Ukraine by the end of the year, a Ukrainian military intelligence official told the Washington Post. Michelle Ye Hee Lee reports.
GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS
Canadian officials expelled India’s top diplomat and five others yesterday, accusing the government of homicide and extortion of Canada-based critics of India. It marks the latest escalation in a dispute between the countries sparked by last year’s assassination of a Sikh cleric in Canada. Matina Stevis-Gridneff reports for the New York Times.
North Korea blew up parts of two major roads to South Korea, the South Korean military said today. The South responded by firing warning shots near the demilitarized zone. Gawon Bae, Yoonjung Seo and Alex Stambaugh report for CNN; David Brennan, Johee Cho and Hakyung Kate Lee report for ABC News.
Taiwan’s defense ministry condemned China’s large-scale military drills simulating strikes on sea and land targets yesterday, saying it detected a record 153 military aircraft taking part in the exercises. The ministry said it has dispatched troops and convened national security meetings to discuss Taiwan’s response. Kathrina Northrop and Vic Chiang report for the Washington Post; Ben Blanchard reports for Reuters.
Pakistani authorities yesterday locked down the country’s capital Islamabad ahead of a planned security summit, deploying troops and blocking key roads in a major security move. Munir Ahmed reports for AP News.
A former German Stasi agent was sentenced yesterday to ten years in prison on charges of killing a 38-year-old Polish man at a border crossing in East Berlin 50 years ago, a rare successful conviction of a former GDR official. Kate Brady reports for the Washington Post.
A court in Moscow yesterday sentenced a French researcher to three years in a penal colony for breaking a controversial “foreign agent” registration law. France has called for the researcher’s immediate release. Jaroslav Lukiv reports for BBC News.
The International Criminal Court prosecutor said yesterday he is renewing a probe into alleged crimes in Congo’s conflict-torn North Kivu province. Mike Corder reports for AP News.
France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen denied any wrongdoing in a court hearing yesterday over the suspected embezzlement of European Parliament funds yesterday. Sylvie Corbet reports for AP News.
TRUMP LEGAL MATTERS
Trump’s lawyers yesterday appealed a September refusal to move the former president’s hush money criminal prosecution to a federal court, a move which would give Trump the ability to end the prosecution if he regains the presidency in November. Luc Cohen reports for Reuters.