Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claimed Hamas wasn't serious about a deal and warned of “a powerful operation in the very near future in Rafah and other places across all of Gaza " after Hamas attacked Israel's main crossing point for delivering badly needed humanitarian aid, killing three soldiers. Israel’s military said it believed Hamas was targeting soldiers massed on the Gaza border in preparation for a possible Rafah invasion. Hamas said it targeted soldiers in the area.

But Israeli media reported that CIA chief William Burns, a main mediator in the talks, would meet with Netanyahu on Monday. An official familiar with the matter told The Associated Press that Burns was traveling to meet the prime minister of Qatar, which along with Egypt has been an intermediary dealing with Hamas. It was not clear whether a subsequent trip to Israel that had been planned would happen. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door negotiations.

Israel didn’t send a delegation to the latest talks. Egyptian state media reported that the Hamas delegation went for discussions in Qatar, where the group has a political office, and will return to Cairo for further negotiations on Tuesday.

Another threat to talks came as Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close, accusing it of broadcasting anti-Israel incitement. The ban did not appear to affect the channel’s operations in Gaza or the West Bank.

Netanyahu, under pressure from hard-liners in his government, continued to lower expectations for a cease-fire deal, calling the key Hamas demands “extreme” — including the withdrawal of Israel forces from Gaza and an end to the war. That would equal surrender after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that triggered the fighting, he said.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a statement earlier said the militant group was serious and positive about the negotiations and that stopping Israeli aggression in Gaza is the main priority.

But Israel's government again vowed to press on with a military operation in Rafah, the southernmost Gaza city on the border with Egypt where more than half of Gaza's 2.3 million residents now seek shelter from Israeli attacks. Rafah is a key entry point for aid.

Kerem Shalom, now closed, is another. The Israeli military reported 10 projectiles were launched at the crossing in southern Israel and said its fighter jets later struck the source. Israel’s Channel 12 TV channel said 10 soldiers remained hospitalized. It was unclear how long the crossing would be closed.

The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, called for an independent investigation and “accountability for the blatant disregard of humanitarian workers.” He also said Israel this week denied him entry to Gaza for a second time.

The closing of Kerem Shalom came shortly after the head of the U.N. World Food Program asserted “full-blown famine” in devastated northern Gaza, one of the most prominent warnings yet of the toll of restrictions on aid entering the territory. It was not a formal famine declaration.

In the full NBC interview, WFP chief Cindy McCain said famine was “moving its way south” in Gaza and that Israel's efforts to allow in more aid were not enough. “We have right now a mass on the outside border, about enough trucks and enough food for 1.1 million people for about three months. We need to get that in," she said.

Gaza's vast humanitarian needs put pressure on cease-fire talks. The proposal that Egyptian mediators put to Hamas sets out a three-stage process that would bring an immediate, six-week cease-fire and partial release of Israeli hostages taken on Oct. 7, and would include some sort of Israeli pullout. The initial stage would last for 40 days. Hamas would start by releasing female civilian hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

Netanyahu claimed that Israel has shown willingness to make concessions but "will continue fighting until all of its objectives are achieved.” That includes the stated aim of crushing Hamas. Israel says it must target Rafah to strike remaining fighters there despite warnings from the U.S. and others about the danger to civilians.

In a fiery speech for Israel’s annual Holocaust memorial day, Netanyahu added: “I say to the leaders of the world, no amount of pressure, no decision by any international forum will stop Israel from defending itself.”

An Israeli strike Sunday on a house in an urban refugee camp near Rafah killed four children, including a baby, and two adults, all from the same family, according to Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital. Another Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed at least five people, according to Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies. Israel's military said it struck a Hamas command center in central Gaza. It didn't mention casualties.

The Hamas cross-border attack on Oct. 7 killed some 1,200 people and took 250 others hostage. Israel says militants still hold around 100 hostages and the remains of more than 30 others. Netanyahu is under pressure from some hostages' families to make a deal to end the war and get hostages freed.

Israeli's air and ground offensive has killed over 34,500 people, according to Palestinian health officials, who don't differentiate between civilians and combatants but say women and children make up a majority of those killed.

Israel blames Hamas for civilian deaths, accusing it of embedding in residential and public areas. The Israeli military says it has killed 13,000 militants, without providing evidence to back up the claim.

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Chehayeb reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Ellen Knickmeyer in Washington, Tia Goldenberg in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Jack Jeffery and Melanie Lidman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

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Dailen Presgrove told “NewsNation Prime” in a Sunday interview, that the scene where his brother Noah's body was discovered didn't match the initial portrayal of a hit-and-run crash. "Some of those injuries, it just doesn't seem possible that he would have fallen out of a car."

"There was no tire marks on the street, there was no car parts along the road, his teeth were sitting there next to his face," Dailen Presgrove said. "If he had gotten hit by a car going 65-70 miles an hour, it just doesn't make sense that the situation looked like it did."

Presgrove’s body was discovered wearing nothing but shoes, along a rural stretch of US 81 in Jefferson County, Oklahoma, on Labor Day in 2023. His family says he was last seen alive at a party he attended with a group of friends. The teen had a caved-in skull, road rash on his hip, a gravel rash on his shoulder, multiple bruises and scattered teeth.

While the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said this week it is no longer investigating Noah Presgrove's death as a murder, his brother believes an accident or "some sort of other sinister situation played out and is now getting covered up."

Presgrove urged anyone who knows anything, including potential private investigators, to come forward.

"Whether it's your own story or whether it's a story of a friend, we please, please encourage you to reach out to us, to the OHP, to ... anyone at all just reach out to them with a message," he said. "As time continues to pass and these interviews continue to play, I know it has to be eating them up inside."

A former FBI agent is questioning why the investigation into his death is not being treated as a homicide case.

"It doesn't make any sense," Jennifer Coffindaffer said Sunday on "NewsNation Prime." "I understand ... there were a lot of people with information. What have they said that makes (police) think that it wasn't something more insidious?"

Coffindaffer noted the strange circumstances surrounding the case, including an ATV accident Presgrove was involved in before his death, as well as "writings that were actually done on his body that were then removed" and his teeth being located feet from his body.

"So many unanswered questions," she said. "I'm so surprised that law enforcement hasn't after eight months ... focused in on who the suspects may be."

"If this isn't a murder, there is no reason for law enforcement not to discuss with them what happened accidentally," Coffindaffer said.

The Georgia Republican filed her “motion to vacate” a month ago and said she intends to bring it to the House floor on Monday.

“It’s a horrible idea,” Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told The Hill. “Moses could not do a better job than what Mike Johnson is doing right now.”

Virginia Republican Bob Good agrees. “She’s not acting in the best interests of President Trump,” he told The Hill on Sunday. “I don’t think this is a good move six months before an election. She’s always been about herself primarily.”

Johnson, himself, has dismissed Greene’s effort, saying he does not consider her a serious lawmaker.

“I don't think she is proving to be. No. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about her. I gotta do my job. We do the right thing and we let the chips fall where they may,” Johnson said.

Adding to Greene’s challenge: only two fellow House Republicans have said they’ll back her move. And the Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, said he’ll help kill the motion.

“The time has come to turn the page on this chapter of Pro-Putin Republican obstruction," Jeffries said earlier this month. “House Democrats have aggressively pushed back against MAGA extremism. We will continue to do just that,” he added.

Greene has blasted Johnson’s cooperation with Democrats to pass a spending bill and the trio of supplemental foreign aid bills benefiting Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine. She also opposed the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Greene's move is allowed thanks to a rule change that lets a single member raise a “privileged motion.” Before that, a House member had to have the backing of their party or caucus to file a motion to vacate. Then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to the change to win the votes needed to become Speaker.

Andrade Ramírez's office issued a news release Sunday evening stating "families of the victims had positively identified" their loved ones.

On Sunday morning she had said the bodies recovered from the well were in an "advanced state of decomposition" and DNA testing would be required, something that is now moot according to Baja's attorney general.

It appears the three men were victims of a robbery, and when they resisted giving up their truck, they were shot and killed, and then dumped into the well.

Andrade Ramírez says investigators believe the suspects came across the surfers who were camping near La Bocana, a well-known surfing spot south of Ensenada near the community of Santo Tomas, and saw an opportunity to rob them.

She says the assailants likely felt it was an isolated area with no cell service and "no witnesses."

Two men and a woman are in custody and two others are "under investigation," according to Baja's attorney general.

Goldberg-Polin's 23-year-old son, an American-Israeli dual citizen, was attending a music festival when militants launched attacks that killed more than 1,300 others. His left arm was blown off and he was taken captive.

"He's obviously in a very fragile, compromised medical situation," Goldberg-Polin told NewsNation of her son in video footage showing his amputation. "We are hopeful that the men in the room will lean forward and do the right thing for all of the people in this region suffering."

The video was the first sign of life of Hersh since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, and its release ignited new protests in Jerusalem calling on the government to do more to secure the captives’ release.

The latest round of Gaza cease-fire talks ended in Cairo after “in-depth and serious discussions,” the Hamas militant group said Sunday, reiterating key demands that Israel again rejected. After earlier signs of progress, the outlook appeared to dim as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to resist international pressure to halt the war.

Goldberg-Polin said she wears a new piece of masking tape daily with the number of days her son has been held captive — now at 212. "I think the human species has failed them," she said of the hostages.

The hostages hail from different nations and various faiths, she noted, urging the public not to "erase their identities" or view them as "a monolithic homogenous group."

"I hear very little mentioned about the Arab Muslim hostages. I hear very little mentioned about the Thai Buddhist hostages. I hear very little mentioned about the black African Christian hostages," she said.

From coast to coast, U.S. campus protesters put up tents to protest Israel’s military action in Gaza and demand the schools divest from companies they claim “profit from Israeli apartheid."

Goldberg-Polin said that the protests can legitimately be concerned about the suffering of innocent civilians in Gaza, while also being concerned about the innocent civilian hostages, including her son, who were "dragged there" and are suffering. "I completely think it is fair, you can hold two truths."

Addressing government leaders, she pleaded: "Have the bravery and the wisdom to do the thing that is best for the innocent people and to love the people who you represent more than you hate the enemy."