Editors led with the outcome of the Netanyahu-Kushner meeting, which reportedly agreed to continue assassinations in Gaza and appoint a US officer to oversee Hamas's disarmament, linking reconstruction to this condition. This followed Kushner's Cairo talks with Hamas, where the movement accepted the second phase of Trump's plan. Concurrently, Israeli violations in Gaza continued, with casualties and warnings of oxygen supply collapse. The settler siege of Qusra entered its ninth day, and regional tensions rose with an Iranian drone strike in Erbil and near-paralysis in the Strait of Hormuz.