ISRAEL AND HAMAS AT WAR

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is meeting Israeli leaders to push for humanitarian pauses in the Gaza war as Israeli troops surround the Palestinian enclave's biggest city, the focus of its drive to wipe out Hamas. 
Diplomats in Washington, the United Nations, the Middle East and beyond have started weighing the options for the "day after" if the Palestinian militant group is ousted - and the challenges they see ahead are daunting.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will today make his first public comments since Hamas and Israel went to war, a speech that will be scrutinized for clues on how the group's role in the conflict might evolve.

The United States has been flying surveillance drones over Gaza in search of hostages taken by Hamas when the group attacked Israel on October 7, two US officials said

-Reuters