cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38282294

Israel continues to violate the Gaza ceasefire, bombing Khan Younis and Beit Lahia. Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani suggests Hamas breached the ceasefire with an attack in Rafah that killed an Israeli soldier. Hamas says Israel is deliberately collapsing the agreement and seeking to impose new terms through violence, as it has “done before in Lebanon and Gaza.” Israeli troops and armored vehicles conduct an overnight incursion into a southern Lebanon town. Google and Amazon secretly accept extraordinary conditions to secure Israel’s $1.2 billion Project Nimbus cloud deal, according to a joint investigation by +972 Magazine. The U.S. Federal Reserve lowers its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point, citing risks to employment and uncertainty caused by the still-ongoing government shutdown. The Department of Homeland Security announces it will require biometric data from all departing noncitizens at every official exit point beginning December 26, according to Migrant Insider. U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth confirms another strike on a vessel in the Caribbean—the fourteenth since September. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces execute over 460 hospital patients and their companions in the newly seized city of El-Fasher in Darfur. Myanmar’s Ta’ang National Liberation Army signs a ceasefire with the junta government, while fighting continues along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. President Donald Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea.