Three Iranian officials told The New York Times last week that they believe the country has been targeted in sabotage attacks that have resulted in mysterious explosions and fires across the country, and they have a suspicion that the Israelis have been behind the incidents.
Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy, posted on X late Thursday that he decided to withdraw his negotiating team from Doha, Qatar, because Hamas has shown a “lack of desire to reach a ceasefire in Gaza” and has not been negotiating in “good faith.”
An unnamed former guard for the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said in an interview on Israel’s Channel 12 that he could no longer work for the foundation because of the abuses that he witnessed at aid sites where Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians since the end of May.
A Houthi spokesman said Sunday that his group will begin targeting any ship in the Red Sea that deals with Israeli ports, which was seen as an escalation from its previous position to target ships that had direct ties to Israel.
Mahdi al-Mashat, the chairman of Yemen's Supreme Political Council, issued a statement to the country’s official news agency last week, warning neighbors that Israel’s aggression will not stop in Gaza.
The Israeli government last week approved an additional $274.6 million to finance a project in the occupied West Bank to connect settlements via a road system, and other infrastructure projects as the land steal in the region picks up pace.
Amichay Eliyahu, the Israeli Heritage minister, said in an interview last week that Israel should have no obligation to help feed the starving Palestinians inside Gaza because there is no country in history that “feeds its enemies.”
In hopes of drawing attention to the worsening humanitarian conditions inside Gaza, over 100 aid organizations issued a statement urging Israel to allow unimpeded access to life-saving relief.