🇺🇸🇮🇱 — NEW: According to the New York Times, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee hosted Jewish-American spy Johnathan Pollard at his official residence in Jerusalem back in July and delibertely kept the visit off his official meeting record, with the White House not aware of the visit

Pollard, a former Naval Intelligence Analyst, was convicted of spying for Israel in 1987 and was allowed to move to Israel in 2020 after President Trump terminated his parole early by commuting his sentence.

Since his release in 2015 the official State Department and Intelligence community policy has been to avoid any official contacts with Pollard due to the gravity of his treason which is widely viewed as the worst case of espionage in American history.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 — NEW: The 28-point U.S. peace plan devised in coordination with Russia includes concessions previously rejected by Ukraine

Witkoff's Peace Proposal

Sovereignty, Security, and NATO

1. Affirm Ukraine’s sovereignty
2. Establish a non-aggression pact between Russia, Ukraine, and Europe
3. Commit that Russia will not invade neighboring countries and NATO will not expand further
4. Create a U.S.-mediated Russia–NATO security dialogue
5. Provide U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine
6. Cap Ukraine’s armed forces at 600,000 troops
7. Ukraine must constitutionally commit not to join NATO; NATO formally bars membership
8. NATO agrees not to station troops in Ukraine
9. Station European fighter jets in Poland.
10. Form a U.S.–Russia working group to monitor security compliance
11. Russia legally codifies a non-aggression policy toward Ukraine and Europe
12. Strengthen or extend nuclear arms-control treaties
13. Ukraine remains a non-nuclear state

Territorial and Military Measures

14. Ukrainian forces withdraw from remaining Kyiv-held areas of Donetsk to form a demilitarized buffer zone recognized as Russian territory
15. Both sides pledge not to change any new territorial arrangements by force

Economic Agreements

16. Russia guarantees Ukraine free commercial use of the Dnieper River
17. Establish agreements on Black Sea grain transport

Humanitarian and Political Provisions

18. Create a humanitarian committee to: exchange prisoners and bodies, return civilian detainees/hostages, reunite separated families, and support war victims
19. Ukraine holds elections within 100 days of signing
20. Grant full wartime amnesty to all parties

Compliance

21. Make the agreement legally binding, overseen by a 'Peace Council' chaired by Trump
22. Impose sanctions or penalties for violations monitored by the Peace Council
23. Immediate ceasefire and mutual withdrawal to agreed lines

Economic and Political Reintegration

24. Use $100 billion of frozen Russian assets for Ukraine’s reconstruction, with the U.S. receiving 50% of profits
25. Europe contributes an additional $100 billion for reconstruction
26. Remaining frozen Russian assets fund joint U.S.–Russia investment projects
27. Russia’s phased reintegration into the global economy
28. Invite Russia back into the G8

🇫🇮🇮🇱 — NEW: Finland's two largest food conglomerates controlling 90% of the market announce boycott of Israeli products

🇮🇳🇦🇪 — NEW: Indian Air Force confirms death of pilot after 'Tejas' fighter jet crashes at the Dubai Air Show

🇱🇧 — NEW: Hezbollah issues Independence Day statement calling for national unity and resistance against Israeli aggression.

Demands include: Implementing ceasefire and UN Resolution 1701, rejecting foreign interference, defending Lebanon's resources, supporting reconstruction in southern regions, and maintaining national sovereignty.

🇺🇸✡️ — WATCH: Sarah Hurwitz, the Jewish-American former speechwriter for Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, says Jews were 'forced into' controlling banks and Hollywood.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 — NEW: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed in a video address that President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off arms supplies and intelligence if Ukraine did not accept the peace deal Washington is proposing, following earlier media reports

In his address Zelensky stated that Ukraine faces 'a loss of dignity, or a loss of a key partner.'

🇺🇸 — WATCH: New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani meets with President Trump at the White House and says he 'looks forward to rooting out antisemitism and protecting Jewish New Yorkers'

Trump states that he will be 'cheering' for him.

🇺🇸🇱🇧 — WATCH: Trump said in response to a question that he will invite President Aoun to visit the White House

‘We are working with Lebanon and other parties to achieve peace in the Middle East’

🇵🇸🇮🇱 — IDF chief of staff: ‘If we do not stop the Jewish rioters [attacking Palestinian communities] in the West Bank, this will change the stability of our operations in Lebanon, Gaza and Syria

If the violence of the Israelis [settlers] in the West Bank does not stop, the entire region will ignite’

🇲🇽⚰️ — NEW: In Mexico, 456 bags containing human remains are found at various points in Zapopan, few kilometers from the Akron Stadium, the venue for the 2026 World Cup.

• The remains were located in areas such as Las Agujas, Nextipac, and Arroyo Hondo, considered a possible corridor of clandestine graves.

• He explained to Aristegui Noticias that 290 bags were recovered in the area surrounding Akron Stadium, specifically in the Las Agujas neighborhood, after construction workers found them during the construction of a housing development.

‘They collected the bags in their area and finished their work. We arrived the next day and immediately found three bags; from then on, we continued working until we counted almost 300 bags in that location alone,’ he explained.

❗️🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧 — NEW: Israel had reportedly planned to carry out airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in the Lebanese capital Beirut, but was pressured by the U.S. to hold off on such attacks to avoid wide-scale escalation with Hezbollah – KANN

🇺🇸🇵🇹 — Cristiano Ronaldo holding a B-2 bomber model standing on Trump's desk in the Oval Office.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 — NEW: At least 15 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza today.