President Donald Trump said he thinks a ceasefire agreement in Gaza could be “close,” perhaps within the next week.

The Senate voted against moving forward with a resolution that would have reined in President Donald Trump’s ability to take further military action against Iran, rejecting an effort by Democrats to reaffirm congressional war powers.

An Israeli strike hit a street in central Gaza on Thursday where witnesses said a crowd of people was getting bags of flour from a Palestinian police unit that had confiscated the goods from gangs looting aid convoys. Hospital officials said 18 people were killed.

Patriot air defense crews had seconds to fire as a barrage of Iranian missiles headed toward their positions earlier this week at Al Udeid Air Base, the U.S. military installation in Qatar that serves as a command hub for all Middle East operations.

President Donald Trump says he expects Iran to open itself to international inspection to verify it doesn’t restart its nuclear program, while Iran’s top diplomat says the possibility of new negotiations with the U.S. has been “complicated” by the American attack on three nuclear sites, which he conceded caused “serious damage.”

An Israeli strike hit a street in central Gaza on Thursday where witnesses said a crowd of people was getting bags of flour from a Palestinian police unit that had confiscated the goods from gangs looting aid convoys. Hospital officials said 18 people were killed.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said his country had delivered a “slap to America’s face” with its strike on a U.S. airbase in Qatar, and warned against any further attacks in his first public comments since a ceasefire was declared with Israel.

The Pentagon’s top leaders emphasized how effective the military mission in Iran was and showed the destruction it caused.

When U.S. forces struck three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend, concern rippled through the population of neighboring Iraq, where pro-Iranian militias wield much influence and the majority of the people, like in Iran, are Shiite Muslims.

A new chapter in U.S.-Iran relations is about to be written, whether for the better or the even worse. For nearly a half century, the world has witnessed an enmity for the ages. Now the U.S. president is saying, of all things, “God bless Iran,” shortly after ordering the intense bombing of Iranian nuclear-development sites.