National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says US ‘will wind down pier operations’ in ‘relatively short order’. The United States has said it will soon end operations from its pier designed to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip amid Israel’s continuing war. The $230m pier has repeatedly been detached from the shore because of weather conditions since its initial installation in mid-May, and the project...

The report stated that the military was unprepared and slow to respond to the attack while fighting was uncoordinated. The Israeli military has acknowledged it did not protect the community of Kibbutz Be’eri during the Hamas-led attack on October 7, in its first investigation into its own security failings on the day of the attacks. More than 100 people were killed in the attack on Be’eri, a community...