Hamas posted a video Saturday showing American-Israeli Keith Siegel and Israeli Omri Miran who briefly spoke on the video, which came as Hamas studied Israel’s proposal for a cease-fire, in an apparent bid to increase pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call off a major offensive.

The pro-Palestinian protests roiling Columbia University and college campuses nationwide have political pundits asking whether widespread demonstrations could ruin the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this summer, just as they did two generations ago in 1968.

According to the BBC, the British government is considering deploying troops to drive the trucks that will carry aid along a floating causeway to the shore from an offshore pier now under construction by the U.S. military. A senior U.S. military official said Thursday there would be no American “boots on the ground.”

As Hamas sticks to a hard line in cease-fire negotiations with Israel, many Palestinians just want the fighting and misery to end after more than six devastating months.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim they used a surface-to-air missile to shoot down another of the U.S. military’s MQ-9 Reaper drones, which cost $30 million a piece to produce. The U.S. military on Saturday acknowledged that an “MQ-9 drone crashed in Yemen.”

Hamas says it is reviewing a new Israeli proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, as Egypt intensifies efforts to broker a deal to end the months-long war and stave off a possible Israeli ground offensive into the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

U.N. investigators are looking into allegations against 14 of the 19 staffers from the U.N. relief agency for Palestinians who Israel claims were involved in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants that spurred the latest war in Gaza.

The suggestion that Iran is sourcing weapons from Russia has raised concerns in Israel about the implications of expanding Moscow-Tehran defense ties — especially at a time when Israel and Iran appear closer than ever to all out war.

Israel is stepping up preparations for a potential all-out war with Hezbollah, as the risk of a devastating new phase in the country’s conflict with Iran and its proxy militias grows more acute.

Egypt sent a high-level delegation to Israel for talks Friday seeking to push through a cease-fire agreement with Hamas and avert an Israeli offensive on Gaza’s town of Rafah — on the border with Egypt — which it warned could ruin regional stability, officials said.