In Gaza, Israeli airstrikes killed at least seven Palestinians, including a child, at a cafe in the port west of Gaza City. It comes a day after Trump’s son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner wrapped up a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas officials. Since last October’s so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed over 1,200 Palestinians in Gaza. Abu Ahmad was among several people surveying the aftermath of Tuesday’s attack.

Abu Ahmad: “They are telling us every day that there is a truce. We are hearing on social media and news channels that there is a truce, a truce for 14 days, three months, and I don’t know what. But it is not implemented in reality in the Gaza Strip. The people of Gaza are bleeding every day.”

A Palestinian American man flew to the occupied West Bank on Monday to help relatives defend the family home, which Israeli settlers have surrounded for more than a week. Settlers have surrounded several Palestinian houses in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, and blocked the people inside from leaving.
Loui Ridi, who lives in Ohio, owns one of the houses. His brother and his teenage nephew have stayed inside to keep settlers from taking it. U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee called the settler siege a “horrific act of terror.” UNICEF brought in food, water and medicine over the weekend, after the Israeli military declared the area a closed military zone. This is Loui Ridi.

Loui Ridi: “I came here to be present with him. I left my luxury home in America. I left my luxury vehicles in America. I left my wife, my two daughters. I left my business and decided to be here at my home to protect it from the settlers to steal it, and raising the American flag to send the message to the American Embassy and the U.S. officials that I am currently under siege and I need a protection.”

Officials from the Joint Maritime Information Center on Tuesday said that unidentified projectiles struck two ships in the Strait of Hormuz in recent days, killing at least one sailor. Hours earlier, the United Arab Emirates said its air defenses tracked two ballistic missiles fired from Iran; both fell into the sea, the second inside Emirati waters. Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said mediators will not return to broader U.S.-Iran talks until Iran and Oman reach their own deal on passage through the strait. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the U.S. is now begging to talk, while President Trump posted a map of the waterway labeled “new U.S. territory.” Also on Tuesday, prosecutors in Manhattan charged 17 Iranians with hacking for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Justice Department says the Mabna Institute digitally broke into 144 U.S. universities and 178 more abroad, stealing over 31 terabytes of research.

Syrians marched in Aleppo this week over the death of a man who was arrested and allegedly beaten by security forces. Twenty-nine-year-old Mohammad Ghamira, a father of two and a former volunteer with the White Helmets civil defense group, died in a hospital on Sunday after being released from jail. Ghamira was detained after he allegedly stole money. Syria’s Emergency Management Minister Raed al-Saleh, who is the former head of the White Helmets, wrote on X that Ghamira died of cerebral and gastrointestinal bleeding brought on by a beating he took after being detained.

The Trump administration imposed sanctions Tuesday on the president of the International Criminal Court and a senior prosecutor who has investigated Israeli officials over the war on Gaza. The State Department targeted ICC President Tomoko Akane of Japan and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal, freezing any assets they hold in U.S. jurisdictions or that touch the American financial system. Seye was on the team that sought an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for crimes against humanity in Gaza. Israeli media report he also oversees an inquiry into Israeli funding for illegal West Bank settlements and the arming of Israeli settlers.

A federal judge in Boston has sided with the Trump administration to revoke temporary protected status, TPS, for more than 5,000 Ethiopian immigrants living and working in the United States. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy lifted the final legal block in Trump’s efforts to end TPS for individual countries and comes after the Supreme Court ended the protection for immigrants from Haiti and Syria. Since Trump returned to office, his administration has moved to terminate TPS for at least 13 out of 17 countries. TPS granted deportation relief for hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose home countries were designated unsafe due to war or climate disaster.

In related news, CBS is reporting that in recent months hundreds of Mexican immigrants have been deported to Guatemala and Honduras, this despite the Mexican government’s willingness to accept all citizens removed from the U.S.

Trump’s Justice Department is pushing a federal appeals court to reinstate criminal charges against Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland father who was wrongfully sent to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega-prison last year and months later returned to the United States. In May, U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismissed human smuggling charges brought by Trump officials against Ábrego García whose case quickly became a symbol of Trump’s mass deportation campaign. At the time, Judge Crenshaw said Ábrego García’s prosecution was “vindictive in nature.” The Justice Department, under the leadership of newly confirmed U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, is now appealing that ruling.

An immigrant was hospitalized after he was brutally beaten and arrested by ICE agents in Virginia last week. José Mejía Hernández says it was only after he regained consciousness at the hospital that he saw the injuries and severe bruising on his face — consistent with blunt force trauma. He also reportedly suffered major brain bleeding and swelling. According to journalist Aaron Parnas, Hernández was walking to work when two ICE agents approached him in a truck. At the hospital, he had ICE agents by his side at all times and was never given proper explanation of his diagnosis or injuries. Once discharged, Hernández was taken to an ICE office, where they placed a GPS ankle monitor on him. Hernández was hospitalized a second time after he felt unwell and was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury, but doctors were reportedly unable to conduct an MRI at the time due to ICE’s ankle monitor.

Hours before joint U.S.-Korean military exercises were scheduled to start, President Trump announced he had ordered the Pentagon to substantially scale them. President Trump lashed out at South Korea for refusing to support U.S. military efforts in Iran. Trump also said the drills may send a hostile signal to North Korea. Trump is seeking a summit with North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-un, a man he says he has a “great relationship” with. The move has prompted South Korean President Lee Jae Myung to push for military control independent from the United States.

This is a 75-year-old resident of Pocheon, South Korea, a city near the border with North Korea.

Hur Song-hoi: “I saw in the news yesterday that Trump said the drills should be scaled back because he is friendly with Kim Jong-un. I think that reflects a lack of understanding of North Korea. To be honest, I feel anxious. As a resident of a border area, I feel particularly uneasy.”

ABC filed a First Amendment lawsuit on Tuesday against the Federal Communications Commission, alleging that the Trump administration has undertaken a “retaliatory campaign” against the network.

This comes as the FCC is closely scrutinizing ABC on several fronts. The media regulator is investigating the broadcaster over corporate diversity programs, as well as alleged political bias on the morning show “The View.” The FCC is also pushing several ABC stations to renew their broadcast licenses years earlier than expected.

Last year, ABC briefly suspended late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from FCC Chair Brendan Carr. After national outcry, Kimmel was reinstated. We’ll have more on this story after headlines.

The Trump administration Tuesday advanced plans to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to road construction and logging. The U.S. Forest Service proposal would undo the 2001 “roadless rule,” a Clinton-era regulation meant to keep those tracts undeveloped. President Trump has been pressuring the agency to increase logging and thin forests. Drew McConville, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, said, “By ripping protections from some of our oldest intact forests, the Trump administration is endangering the drinking water supplies of tens of millions and threatening wildlife habitats and recreation opportunities in almost every state.”

In Florida, democratic socialist state Representative Angie Nixon pulled off a stunning victory in the Democratic Senate primary against Alexander Vindman, a former Army intelligence officer who testified during Trump’s first impeachment against Trump. Backed by the Democratic establishment, he raised more than 16 times as much campaign money as Nixon, who ended up winning.

Meanwhile, in the race for governor, former Republican Congressmember David Jolly, who switched parties, won the Democratic primary. He will face Republican Congressmember Byron Donalds in the general election, who’s backed by Donald Trump.

Establishment Democrats Jared Moskowitz and Debbie Wasserman Schultz won their races despite Republican gerrymandering.

And incumbent Congressmember Cory Mills lost the Republican primary in Florida’s 7th Congressional District to Ryan Elijah. Mills was facing a House Ethics Committee investigation into allegations of assault and threatening behavior toward women.

In Alaska’s Senate race, incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan and Democratic Congressmember Mary Peltola are advancing to the general election. In the primary, two Dan Sullivans were on the ballot, with the other Dan Sullivan capturing 2.4% of the vote. Alaska has an open primary decided by ranked choice voting.

In Pakistan, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that authorities must transfer jailed ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan to a private hospital in Islamabad for a medical evaluation. The ruling comes after his relatives and personal doctors spent months raising alarms about his condition and whether he was receiving adequate care behind bars. Khan has been in jail for three years on corruption charges that U.N. experts have called arbitrary and politically motivated. This is Khan’s lawyer on Tuesday.

Sardar Muhammad Masroof Khan: “This is a very welcoming decision. He is the founder and chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and has been in jail for nearly three years now. Given the nature of the medical report that has come out, especially the medical report submitted yesterday, I believe this is a very good and encouraging decision.”