Freed hostage Aviva Siegel reacts to meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, as cease-fire talks resume in a critical week in the Middle East.

According to a report by Channel 12, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has received the newly revised US mediation plan, which was endorsed by Qatar and Egypt and accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday. However, Israeli sources believe that Sinwar is likely to maintain Hamas’s public stance, which is to reject the proposal.

At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a private conversation with the father of Itay Chen, an American-Israeli hostage. The prominent member of the progressive “Squad” highlighted Vice President Kamala Harris’s role in negotiating a ceasefire and securing the release of hostages during her widely praised speech on the opening night of the convention.

Appears to be new footage of sniper Thomas Matthew Crooks at the Butler rally before shooting President Trump

Two security sources informed Reuters that no one was killed in the recent Israeli airstrikes targeting a Hezbollah weapons depot in northern Lebanon. However, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported that eight people were injured in the incident, including six Lebanese citizens and two Syrian children.

The IDF reports that combat engineers dismantled a tunnel stretching one and a half kilometers in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis

The meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary Antony Blinken has concluded; the meeting was positive and was held in a good atmosphere. The meeting lasted approximately three hours. The Prime Minister reiterated Israel’s commitment to the current American proposal on the release of our hostages, which takes into account Israel’s security needs, which he strongly insists on.