Top stories: 1) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserts the defeat of Hamas would inflict a stinging blow to Iran’s axis of terror. 2) An Israeli interagency delegation will travel to Washington to alleviate U.S. concerns over the IDF’s pending ground offensive into Rafah. 3) The U.S. Central Command launched repeated strikes against the Iranian-proxy Ansar-Allah, as the Houthis pledge to widen attacks against freedom of navigation.