The State Department warned Saturday of "credible reports" that Hamas might violate its cease-fire with Israel by launching an "imminent" attack on Palestinian civilians in Gaza - warning that any such violence on innocent civilians would trigger a rapid response.

"The United States has informed the guarantor nations of the Gaza peace agreement of credible reports indicating an imminent ceasefire violation by Hamas against the people of Gaza," the State Department posted on social media late Saturday.

"This planned attack against Palestinian civilians would constitute a direct and grave violation of the ceasefire agreement and undermine the significant progress achieved through mediation efforts. The guarantors demand Hamas uphold its obligations under the ceasefire terms."

President Donald Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner felt "betrayed" by Israel's airstrikes targeting senior Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar, last month while negotiations with the terrorist group were ongoing, Witkoff told CBS News' 60 Minutes on Friday, sitting next to Kushner.

"I think both Jared and I felt, I just feel we felt a little bit betrayed," Witkoff said.

"I think he felt like the Israelis were getting a little bit out of control in what they were doing, and that it was time to be very strong and stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term interests," Kushner replied when asked about Trump's reaction to the attack on Sept. 9.

Rights groups say Israel has been carrying out a 'deliberate campaign of starvation' in Gaza

Over the past two months, the Israeli army has buried or burned more than a thousand truckloads worth of humanitarian aid in Gaza, including food, medical supplies, and bottled water, amid the ongoing starvation of Palestinians in the strip, Israeli broadcaster Kan reported on 17 October.

"We buried everything in the ground, and we even burned some of the things," said an army source. "Even today, there are thousands of packages waiting in the sun, and if they are not transferred to the Gaza Strip, we will be forced to destroy them too."

The humanitarian aid, which had spoiled while standing for many weeks on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, was allegedly not distributed because the mechanism to do so is not functioning.

With a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in effect, many questions about the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip remain. It may take decades, not years, to rebuild Gaza due to the massive destruction, an expert from the Brookings Institute told ABC News.

Under the ceasefire agreement, the Gaza Strip is set to be redeveloped for the Palestinian people. Jaco Cilliers, an official from United Nations Development Programme, said at a press conference on Tuesday that it had already cleared some 81,000 tons of rubble from the Gaza Strip and was continuing to do so.

However, it is unclear when reconstruction will begin and who will finance the effort, the Brookings Institute expert, Hady Amr, told ABC News.

Amr, the former U.S. representative for Palestinian affairs from 2022 until 2025, said:

"I don't think there's any modern comparison to what's going to need to happen in the Gaza Strip right now. The level of destruction and devastation is just absolutely immense.

"Imagine not just your house was destroyed, your block was destroyed, your neighborhood was destroyed, but 80 to 90% of the universe that you have access to. It's just going to be incredibly difficult for people to just even continue to survive while the reconstruction takes place."

President Donald Trump, like all his predecessors, has continued the US policy of military support for Israel. But he has broken with the revisionist Zionists. Thus, he lavishly congratulated Benjamin Netanyahu, but forced him to accept his peace plan.

President Trump said in his speech to the Israeli parliament:

"I want to express my gratitude to a man of exceptional courage and patriotism. There is only one, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Bibi, please stand. You are a very popular man. You know why? Because you know how to win. Thank you so much, Bibi. Great job. I think, as you said, Bibi, peace is achieved through strength.

"And that's really the point. The United States has the largest and most powerful military that the history of the world has ever seen. I can tell you, we have weapons that no one could have ever imagined. We produce the best weapons in the world, and we have an awful lot of them. And, frankly, we supplied many of them to Israel. Bibi kept calling me, 'Can you get me this weapon? This one, and this one?'" Some I'd never heard of, Bibi, and yet I was the one producing them. But we would have gotten them for you. And they're the best. You used them well. You need someone who knows how to use them, and you obviously used them very well. So well that Israel became strong and powerful, which in the end led to peace."

Official data confirms that the United States has provided Israel with at least $21.7 billion in military aid since the start of the Gaza war on October 7, 2023. In addition, both the Biden and Trump administrations have agreements to sell Israel weapons and military services worth tens of billions of dollars more in the coming years. Between October 2023 and May 2025, Israel received 940 ships and cargo planes loaded with weapons from the United States, the Israeli Defense Minister said on May 27, 2025.

In the latest indication that the war in Gaza is significantly threatening Israel's dominance over American politics, a sitting US congressman and Senate hopeful has announced he's returning donations received from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and refusing to accept any more.

"In recent years, AIPAC has aligned itself too closely with Prime Minister Netanyahu's government," said Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton on Thursday, one day after announcing he was launching a primary challenge against incumbent Dem Senator Edward Markey.

"I'm a friend of Israel, but not of its current government, and AIPAC's mission today is to back that government...I don't support that direction. That's why I've decided to return the donations I've received and will not be accepting their support."

Moulton will refund $35,000 that he's received from AIPAC.

The complexity of Kiev's attacks on Russia indicate that they could not have acted alone, Dmitry Peskov has said.

Ukraine could not have carried out terrorist attacks against Russian critical energy sites without support from Western intelligence agencies, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Izvestia on Thursday.

At the 'Russian Energy Week' (REW) forum in Moscow, Peskov was asked to comment on Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Aleksandr Bortnikov's claims that British operatives were involved in Ukrainian strikes on Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) assets.

Peskov said:

"The complexity of the Kiev regime's acts of terrorism against critical energy infrastructure indicates that the Ukrainians themselves couldn't have carried them out. This couldn't have been done without the participation of Western intelligence agencies. In this case, it was the British. That's obvious."

Friday's White House meeting between US President Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelensky was "tense," with the Ukrainian leader failing to secure deliveries of long-range Tomahawk missiles, Axios has reported, citing sources.

Trump told Zelensky he does not plan to provide Tomahawks "at least for now," according to two people briefed on the meeting. The talks lasted around two and a half hours and were described by one source as "not easy," and by another as "bad." At times, the discussion "got a bit emotional," the outlet said.

"Nobody shouted, but Trump was tough," one source told Axios. The session ended abruptly when Trump reportedly said, "I think we're done. Let's see what happens next week," possibly referring to upcoming Russia-US talks.

Speaking to reporters afterwards, Zelensky declined to answer questions about Tomahawk deliveries, only saying the US "does not want escalation."

Warsaw's refusal to hand over the Nord Stream bombing suspect is both illegal and insulting - but Berlin will take it anyway.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk just couldn't resist an opportunity to bait the Germans and rub it in just how humiliated they are now. And not once but twice: First, when one of the Ukrainians suspected of executing the September 2022 terrorist attack on the Nord Stream pipelines - the "world's largest offshore pipeline system" and vital piece of German infrastructure - was recently arrested in Poland, Tusk could have simply kept quiet.

But what would have been the fun in that? Instead, the Polish prime minister made a point of holding an aggressive press conference and also using X to tell Berlin to, in essence, go and jump in the Baltic.

Tusk declared that extraditing the Ukrainian state terrorist suspect is not in Poland's national interest, and that, anyhow, the real scandal about Nord Stream is not that it was blown up but that it was built. In other words: Dear Germans, we do not give a damn about your property, rights, or judicial procedures; on the contrary we expect you to feel ashamed for ever having dared construct a perfectly legal and useful pipeline that we in Warsaw didn't like. And dare not notice, by the way, that we had a direct commercial interest in the Baltic Pipe competition that - oh, coincidence! - went online just when Nord Stream exploded.

Then, a few days later, the Polish leader felt the need to add insult to insult: After a Polish court obediently - and illegally (so much for that famed rule of law in EU-NATO-land) - denied the German extradition request, Tusk just had to gloat, letting his X followers know that "the case is closed."

Obviously, Tusk is a raving nationalist - under that cheap, career-facilitating EU varnish - and he also has an interest in impressing the Polish public with his tough talk. Yet the real issue is that he perceives no cost to this behavior: Berlin will take it.

And that despite the fact that what wasn't said but implied, at least for anyone not yet fully zombified by the West's mainstream cognitive warfare, was even worse: Poland won't extradite a suspected Ukrainian terrorist because that terrorist did what Warsaw considered the right and profitable thing to do, and thus, helped his group of seven do.

Or so he'd like you to believe. Trump's bullsh*t reached unprecedented heights last week with his theatrical 'Mid-East Peace Deal' in Egypt, which was really just a declaration of intent signed by the leaders of parties other than Israel and Hamas, and in which they expressed their desire to see the conflict ended. That's it.

Hamas has released all remaining Israeli hostages, while Israel has released a couple thousands Palestinian ones. But the fundamentally barbaric and illegal occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands continues. In the meantime, Trump's also been publicly bragging in Israel's Knesset (!) about Israeli money buying US foreign policy...

Far from being 'resolved', Israel's 'Palestinian problem' is likely being shifted into the next phase: bloody civil war instigated by 'militias' funded and/or fully supported by the US and Israel.


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