Palestinian militants killed three Israeli police officers on Sunday when they opened fire on a vehicle in the occupied West Bank, where Israel has carried out large-scale raids in recent days.

Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak in the territory that has been ravaged by the Israel-Hamas war.

Israel on Sunday said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages in Gaza, including a young Israeli-American man who became one of the most well-known captives held by Hamas as his parents met with world leaders and pressed for his release, including at the Democratic convention last month.

Israel’s military said it had located a number of bodies in the Gaza Strip, opening the possibility that some of the roughly 100 hostages still held there had been found dead.

Those familiar with conversations between Vice President Kamala Harris and her national security adviser say she could be open to imposing conditions on some aid to Israel, a policy that President Joe Biden has largely rejected.

The U.N. health agency and partners are launching a campaign starting Sunday to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children in Gaza against polio, an ambitious effort amid a devastating war that has destroyed the territory’s healthcare system.

A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus has begun, the Health Ministry said Saturday, as Palestinians in the Hamas-governed enclave and the occupied West Bank reeled from Israel’s military offensives.

The United States military and Iraq launched a joint raid targeting suspected Islamic State group militants in the country’s western desert that killed at least 15 people and left seven American troops hurt, officials said Saturday.

The 19-year-old Palestinian TikTok star Medo Halimy documented the mundane absurdities of everyday life in the besieged Gaza Strip with his “tent life” video series. Halimy produced diaries that captivated viewers curious about what life looks like amid war. He was killed by an Israeli airstrike Monday when shrapnel tore through the internet café where he was hanging out with a close friend and collaborator.

Yaste assumed command of the USS John S. McCain in October 2023. His removal was attributed to a “loss of confidence.”

The Israeli military fired a missile at the lead vehicle of an aid convoy in Gaza, killing four Palestinians, the convoy’s organizers said. The military said it struck after identifying weapons aboard one of the trucks, adding that the four Palestinians were armed and hadn’t been included in the coordinated travel plan.

In the three years since the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan, a smattering of volunteers in the United States have worked to get some of the nation’s Afghan allies out of the Taliban-controlled country and into new lives abroad.

A 4-year-old boy who accidentally broke a rare 3,500-year-old jar in an Israeli museum has been forgiven and even invited back, as curators hope to turn the incident into a teachable moment. The restoration of the jar is expected to be completed in a matter of days, and it could be back on exhibit as early as next week.

The Army commander in charge of the U.S. military’s Gaza pier project called the mission the biggest “organizational leadership challenge” he has ever experienced. Even so, Col. Sam Miller said the Army learned a number of lessons during the four-month mission.

The tender will mark a change in strategy by the IDF, which in recent months has preferred the Chinese drone industry over Israel’s drone makers.

The U.N. World Health Organization said Thursday that it has reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of children after a baby contracted the first confirmed case in 25 years in the Palestinian territory.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels released footage on Thursday showing their fighters boarded and placed explosives on a Greek-flagged tanker, setting off blasts that put the Red Sea at risk of a major oil spill. The vessel was abandoned earlier, after the Houthis repeatedly attacked it.

Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels in defiance of international demands, a confidential report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said Thursday.

Iraqi air defenses shot down a Turkish drone Thursday morning over the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi military officials said.