An International Red Cross (ICRC) vehicle drives in Deir al-Balah as it transports US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander on May 12, 2025, after being handed over by Al-Qassam Brigades. (Credit: Eyad Baba/AFP)
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, May 13, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:U.S. President Donald Trump's official visit to the Middle East.Efforts to reach a new cease-fire agreement in Gaza and resume the flow of aid into the enclave Hamas releases hostage; Israel bombs school, starves one out of five Palestinians in Gaza: Israel’s nine-week blockade on Gaza has pushed 22 percent of the enclave’s population into catastrophic-level hunger and all inhabitants into acute food insecurity, according to figures published yesterday by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. That same day, Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed at least 29 people, 15 of whom, mostly women and children, were killed in the bombardment of a U.N. school-turned-shelter in...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, May 13, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:U.S. President Donald Trump's official visit to the Middle East.Efforts to reach a new cease-fire agreement in Gaza and resume the flow of aid into the enclave Hamas releases hostage; Israel bombs school, starves one out of five Palestinians in Gaza: Israel’s nine-week blockade on Gaza has pushed 22 percent of the enclave’s population into catastrophic-level hunger and all inhabitants into acute food insecurity, according to figures published yesterday by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. That same day, Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed at least 29 people, 15 of whom, mostly women and children, were killed in the bombardment of a U.N. school-turned-shelter in...