Sign up to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here.
A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the past 24 hours. Here’s today’s news:
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
Israel and Hamas struck a last-minute agreement to extend the fighting pause for another day. “In light of the mediators’ efforts to continue the process of releasing the hostages and subject to the terms of the framework, the operational pause will continue,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said yesterday, just minutes before the existing deal was due to expire. Hamas also confirmed the pause would continue for a seventh day. Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Mohammed Salem, and Humeyra Pamuk report for Reuters.
Two Hamas attackers opened fire at a bus stop at the entrance to Jerusalem this morning, killing three people and wounding eight others, Israeli police have confirmed. “The terrorists arrived at the scene by car in the morning, armed with an M-16 rifle and a handgun…the terrorists began shooting at civilians before subsequently being killed at the scene,” the police said. Commenting on the attack shortly after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he told Blinken, “We swore, I swore, to eradicate Hamas. Nothing will stop us.” Dan Williams reports for Reuters.
The IDF said yesterday it was investigating a Hamas claim that the youngest Israeli hostage aged just 10 months old has died. Baby Kfir Bibas, his four-year-old brother Ariel, and his mother Shiri, were allegedly killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to the armed wing of Hamas. The IDF said it was “assessing the accuracy of the information.” Eyad Kourdi, Jeremy Diamond, and Tamar Michaelis report for CNN.
Twenty-two-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi was among one of those freed last night by Israel. Tamimi is known for slapping IDF soldiers during a raid of her village in the occupied West Bank in 2017, which saw her imprisoned for…
Read the full article here
