Israel strikes southern Gaza. U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff expected to meet Hamas’s chief negotiator, Khalil al-Hayya, in Istanbul. Israeli troops round up 200 Palestinians in the West Bank town of Beit Ummar. Congress votes to declassify the Epstein files. The Trump administration authorizes covert CIA action in Venezuela, intending to boot President Nicolás Maduro and take as much oil as possible. Trump lavishes Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with praise, attacks reporters, and gives Saudi Arabia a non-member NATO affiliation. A West African woman deported from the U.S. to Ghana commits suicide in custody. Israel continues attacks on Lebanon, killing 13 in airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in Saida, in the deadliest strike since a “ceasefire” last year. Jihadist militants kill 9 in a raid on a town in Nigeria’s northeast. Pakistani forces kill 38 in a series of raids across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s sisters are reportedly detained after a protest. Filipino President denies his senatorial sister’s allegations that he is a cocaine addict.