Israeli leaders make moves in Washington while seeking future political backing

Ron Dermer and other israeli officials are having back-to-back meetings with US high-ups in Washington this week discussing Gaza and Lebanon situations; their schedule includes talks with both current administration and ex-presidents team members (which shows some smart political planning)

The conflict near Lebanese border keeps getting worse: israel hit Beirutʼs south area on tuesday in a day-time strike thats been the biggest since oct last year. About 190 rockets flew towards israel from Lebanon injuring 5 people while Lebanese health ministry says their monday losses were around dozen people

Bezalel Smotrich the finance minister made a bold move saying he wants israel to take over west-bank parts when new president starts in 25. This idea got quick push-back from EUʼs Josep Borrell who said it breaks international rules; meanwhile Mike Huckabee (an israel-friendly pick) got nominated as future US ambassador

Aid groups wrote a not-so-happy report about gaza saying israel didnt do enough to help people there in last month:

• Food delivery problems still exist
• Northern gaza situation got worse
• More steps needed to fix things

But US officials dont seem ready to change their support yet

In other world news Christopher Luxon New Zealands PM said sorry in parliament for bad things done to 200k people in state care (mostly native kids) during past 70-ish years. His team is now working on fixing 28 out of 138 things that need change

A real bad thing happened in China when some angry divorced guy drove into exercising people killing 35 and hurting 43 more. Xi Jinping wants him punished hard – its been one of the worst single-day losses there lately

North Korea and Russia made their defense deal official this week: if one gets attacked other must help right away. Theyʼre also planning to work together on space stuff food and trade