Israel resumes lower-level killing after mass violence Sunday; Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff visit Israel for ceasefire talks; embattled socialist party ousted in Bolivia
Israel kills several Palestinians in Gaza City after claiming to begin “the renewed enforcement of the ceasefire” following a wave of attacks on Sunday that killed dozens. Khalil al-Hayya leads Hamas delegation in Cairo. Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff visit Israel for ceasefire talks. Israeli warplanes carry out three airstrikes in southern Lebanon. On “60 Minutes,” Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff describe the U.S. process of negotiating the ceasefire; Kushner argues that purported “cultural differences” in Gaza and the West Bank constitute a meaningful obstacle to Palestinian statehood. Israeli settlers attack an elderly Palestinian woman harvesting olives in the West Bank village of Turmus’ayyer; the incident was captured on camera by Jasper Nathaniel, a journalist and Drop Site contributor, in a scene he describes as an ambush. The Trump administration announces that the two survivors of a military attack on a semi-submersible vessel are being repatriated to their home countries, while initiating yet another attack, this time on the Colombian guerrilla group, the E.L.N. The Washington Post reports on a quid pro quo between the U.S. State Department and the government of El Salvador, which exchanged MS-13 informants in American prisons for U.S. access to El Salvador’s mega-prisons, where they intend to send Venezuelan migrants. Houthi forces detain UN employees in Sana’a, Yemen, alleging that they engaged in espionage. President Donald Trump urges Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to cede territories in the East to Russia and to accept a ceasefire, saying that if he does not, Ukraine will “be destroyed.” Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to a ceasefire. Senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira wins Bolivia’s presidential election, ending nearly 20 years of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism party.
