Israel rejects Trump Gaza plan, ties withdrawal to Hamas disarmament

This is the evening edition of the One News Page Global Briefing, for Sunday, the ninth of August, twenty twenty-six. Here is what matters now.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the fifteen-point Gaza plan presented by Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, telling his cabinet that Israeli forces will not withdraw from Gaza until Hamas is genuinely disarmed. The rejection halts the ceasefire proposal associated with the plan, leaving the diplomatic initiative stalled. At the same cabinet session, Netanyahu repeated his pledge to block Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons “with an agreement or without an agreement” for as long as he remains prime minister, regardless of the course of diplomacy with Washington and Arab states.

Meanwhile, in the United States, Hunter Biden said in a wide-ranging B B C interview aired late Friday that former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body, including his bones, and is causing pain. He described watching his father’s decline as “very sad” and “debilitating,” and grew emotional while discussing the condition. The remarks are a family member’s account of an ongoing illness. Hunter Biden also said the pardon he received from his father was “not good” for the United States or for the elder Biden’s legacy, and he denied any interest in running for office.

In the Middle East, Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement claimed responsibility on Sunday for a drone attack on a Saudi Aramco refinery in Jazan, the latest escalation in a region already strained by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The claim came two days after Saudi Arabia signed a defence pact with Turkey and Pakistan, and as Iran and the United States remain at odds over terms for reopening the waterway and restarting negotiations. Separately, Houthi strikes on the Yemeni port city of Mokha killed at least eleven people, according to a medical source, while the broader pattern of attacks has intensified since a twenty twenty-two truce appeared to collapse last month. The Pentagon has separately been pressing U S defense contractors to accelerate weapons production.

In Canada, Authorities in British Columbia declared a provincial state of emergency as the fast-moving Bald Range wildfire, still classified as out of control, spread across more than thirty-six square miles, or roughly twenty-five thousand acres, and at one point advanced more than two thousand acres in about an hour. The fire, which erupted Friday, nearly doubled in size overnight into Saturday, prompting evacuation orders for nearly twenty-two thousand people and warnings that another nine thousand seven hundred should be ready to flee. Premier David Eby announced the emergency measures as flames displaced residents in the Okanagan Valley; one official described the blaze as “like a bomb going off.” The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating a possible death near Summerland, though the casualty has not been confirmed.

In U S politics, Songs by Taylor Swift have been removed from social-media videos posted by Donald Trump’s campaign and the White House, muting recent attempts to mock or bait the pop star. The takedowns affected posts including a three August clip of the president and first lady Melania Trump watching fireworks, which had used Swift’s music. The reason for the removals was not stated in the available accounts.

Also in the United States, U S Representative Ed Case, a moderate Democrat, defeated progressive state Senator Jarrett Keohokalole in Hawaii’s first congressional district primary on Saturday, securing his party’s nomination for another term. Case, who has held the seat since twenty nineteen, prevailed in a contest framed around generational change and Hawaii’s rising cost of living. The result positions him to defend the Democratic-held district in November.

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