U.S. officials say the Israeli plan does not change the administration’s view that full-scale attacks in Rafah would put too many Palestinian civilians at risk and worsen an already dire humanitarian crisis.
A top U.N. official says northern Gaza is in “full-blown famine” amid war between Israel and Hamas and Israeli restrictions on food deliveries to the Palestinian territory.
Egyptian state media report 'noticeable progress' in talks with Hamas and Israel, but an Israeli official downplayed prospects for a full end to the war.
Police cleared pro-Palestinian protesters out of a tent encampment at New York University. In U.S. campus demonstrations, more than 2,300 have been arrested.
An experimental F-16 fighter jet took the U.S. Air Force secretary on a history-making flight controlled by artificial intelligence and not a human pilot.