Today’s top stories:
1) Israel remains unequivocal in its resolve to resume fighting at the moment when the so-called humanitarian pause runs its course.
2) U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken voices Washington’s keen aspiration to extend the Israel-Gaza pause – for the sake of freeing additional hostages in Hamas captivity.
3) The United Nations warns that miscalculation in Syria could “ignite a dozen different powder kegs that lie within Syrian borders.”
