Overview

• Gaza endures a worst-case famine scenario with the IPC warning of full-scale starvation and Gaza’s health ministry reporting seven malnutrition-related deaths in the past 24 hours.
• U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff inspected U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites to assess urgent needs and press for expanded aid corridors.
• Hamas has suspended talks with mediators and insists negotiations will only resume once Gaza’s hunger crisis ends, rejecting disarmament demands without recognition of a sovereign Palestinian state.
• New propaganda videos showing hostages Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski in emaciated condition prompted emergency protests in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square.
• An emerging U.S.-Israel understanding proposes an all-or-nothing framework linking the release of all remaining captives to the dismantling of Hamas’s military capabilities in Gaza.