No decision yet on whether to impose restrictions on the IDF's 'Netzah Yehuda' battalion. After Blinken said 1.5 weeks ago 'I think you'll see in the days ahead that we will have more to say, so please stay tuned on that.'

Saudi's foreign minister says for normalization they want to see 'truly a pathway to a Palestinian state...credible, irreversible. That is the only way it's going to work.'

I asked an IDF spokesman if Israel plans to investigate the mass graves found in Khan Younis.

“Investigate what?” he replied, after calling the reports “fake news.” politico.com/newsletters/na…

The US has begun construction at sea of the temporary pier intended to help deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, with the ultimate goal of delivering up to 150 trucks of aid per day to the starving population there.

With Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky

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Lindsey Graham CNN he’s doing everything he can to ensure a deal to secure diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel is sealed under Biden, in part because he thinks Biden would have a better shot at drumming up Democratic support in Congress

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Economist: Israel struck an Iranian “Tombstone” radar then Iran 'pulled a switcheroo' and replaced it with a different 96l6e “Cheese board” radar on the same spot. “It’s a case of denial and deception...to suggest the site is still operational.” economist.com/middle-east-an…

Israel's defense minister weighs in on US campus protests

Every day a day far too long. Russia should release Evan Gerhskovich immediately

Sources tell Natasha Bertrand & me they expect long-range ATACMS, which Ukraine has been begging for, will be in the next US aid package. Biden administration sources told Congress new aid would lead to the longer-range missiles.

The number was revised closer to 300 bodies. If Israel and Egypt let the int’l press in you’d have throngs of TV reporters tonight doing live shots on the edge of this mass grave. cnn.com/middleeast/liv…

A really interesting story by Sean Lyngaas. We'll have more on how these American animations may have ended up on a North Korean server on The Lead CNN in the 5p hour.

More than 200 bodies found in mass grave in Nasser hospital, says Gaza Civil Defense cnn.com/middleeast/liv…

Congrats to Dmitri Alperovitch on the new book, it looks fascinating.

This hasn't been announced yet but both Netanyahu and now his defense minister are coming out against expected sanctions against an IDF battalion.

“Johnson received a key intelligence briefing from CIA Director Bill Burns, who painted a picture of the dire situation on the battlefield in Ukraine and the global consequences…increasingly convinced the fate of Western democracy was on his shoulders” cnn.com/2024/04/21/pol…

After 'complex weeks of coordination,' Biden admin has secured an agreement with WFP to distribute aid from the pier the US military is constructing off the coast of Gaza, per senior US officials

Story with Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood & Alex Marquardt
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