Rebuilding Gaza after the 2023–2025 war will cost an estimated $71 billion—about seven times the combined cost of reconstruction after the 2008, 2014, and 2021 conflicts, according to an Oxfam-backed report.

Nine months into the ceasefire, reconstruction has yet to begin.

Source: The National News

Two Israeli banks have warned they may soon cut correspondent banking ties with Palestinian banks, threatening to disrupt payments for essential imports such as food, fuel, electricity, and water.

Palestinian and international officials warn the move could cripple the West Bank economy, fuel a cash-based black market, and worsen the Palestinian Authority's already severe financial crisis.

Source: NYT

Netanyahu's Office:

The joint American and Israeli military action against the genocidal regime in Teheran and Israel's crushing of Iran's terror axis have created the possibility to expand the circle of peace.

Saudi Arabia's joining of the Abraham Accords would be an historic leap forward for peace in the Middle East.

Brent crude tops $100/barrel for the first time since May.

IRGC:

After the official resumption of the war, the invading U.S. military had been using cruise missiles launched from its naval vessels in the Indian Ocean.

However, after those ships exhausted their missile stockpiles, yesterday it resorted to using B-1 bombers flying from RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom.

As officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have also stated, any base used to launch attacks against Iranian territory is considered a legitimate target for us.

The House voted 214–208 to restrict Trump’s ability to continue military action in Iran without congressional approval.

Four Republicans joined Democrats to back the resolution.

The Senate is expected to vote on a similar measure later Thursday.

Iran flew IRGC commanders, military advisers, and missile and drone equipment to Yemen on July 13, in a move that appears aimed at strengthening the Houthis' ability to threaten Red Sea shipping.

A Mahan Air flight carrying 10–21 IRGC personnel, including senior commanders, diverted from Sanaa to Hodeidah after an airport strike.

The cargo reportedly included missile and drone components as well as gold to fund Houthi operations.

Source: Reuters

Iran's Ghalibaf:

Reporter: Is Russia helping Iran target US troops?

Lavrov: Nice hairstyle.

The U.S. Navy will no longer release sailors' service records—such as duty assignments, ranks, or awards—to the media, citing security and harassment concerns.

Critics say the move, part of broader Pentagon restrictions on press access under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, reduces transparency and makes it harder to scrutinize military actions and report on service members.

Source: CBS News

Netanyahu:

I went to see Trump right after the election, and I came there with seven big slides.

Slide one, slide two, slide three, slide four — here's what we're going to do.

Not "are you allowing us or not allowing us" — here's what we're going to do. I told him. And we get to the last slide, and I say: here's what I'm proposing to you.

You have B-2s — these huge bombers. There's a site called Fordow. If we need to, we'll act against it ourselves too. But it's much more effective if you come and simply drop your heavy bombs there.

He listened, and in the end he joined. And I was very glad.

Host: Messi is the greatest player of all time.

Netanyahu: I have to say, with Pelé. But in our time, in recent decades — Messi.

Host: Is Mojtaba Khamenei alive?

Netanyahu: I think he's alive.

Q: Lindsey Graham — was he eliminated, or natural death?

Netanyahu: I don't know. The American claim is that they checked it and it was a natural death.

Israel says Mossad and international partners foiled an alleged Iranian Intelligence Ministry plot to infiltrate a foreign group into Israel to target senior Israeli officials.

Source: The Jerusalem Post

Netanyahu:

The elimination of Nasrallah, there was an argument.

They said we needed to tell America in advance.

I said absolutely not.

Netanyahu:

I plan to be here until I'm 120.

Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov said he will only accept the defense minister post.

He argued it is the only role where he can meaningfully influence the war, continue military reforms, fight procurement corruption, and help bring Ukraine closer to victory.

Source: NV

Netanyahu:

They did genetic studies on different Jewish communities — Ashkenazim, Yemenites, North Africans, and even Ethiopians — and they discovered something amazing.

What they discovered is that everyone, contrary to claims that we have no connection to the original Jews who were here, has a gene that brings us straight back to the Land of Israel.

Meaning all of us, in the different communities, we have this Jewish gene.

Trump on Iran:

I am considering a massive attack—larger than anything that has happened before.

I am close to making a decision.

Source: N12

White House:

Cuba is about to be a failed state because of the communist policies of the past several decades.