Israel on Sunday launched a series of deadly air strikes in Gaza and temporarily halted humanitarian aid into the strip, alleging that Hamas had fired on Israeli soldiers in violation of a ceasefire that went into effect earlier this month. But a senior White House official, speaking to The American Conservative, denied that Hamas had attacked Israeli soldiers. “Hamas did nothing,” the official said. “Israeli tank hit an unexploded IED [improvised explosive device] that has probably been there for months.” Amid the dramatic breakdown in a ceasefire that was already fragile, U.S. officials are heading to Israel to push for full implementation of the Gaza peace deal. Special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived Monday and Vice President J.D. Vance is expected to arrive Tuesday. Hamas’s leadership said the group had been abiding by the ceasefire. “We confirm our full commitment to carrying out everything that was agreed, first and foremost the ceasefire in all areas of the Gaza strip,” said the group’s military wing in a statement. Last week, in the first phase of the deal, Hamas returned all 20 living Israeli hostages, while Israel released around 2,000 Palestinian detainees and withdrew from parts of the strip. The next phase will involve the demilitarization of Hamas and the establishment of an International Stabilization Force. The post Amid Israeli Attacks, White House Official Denies Hamas Violated Ceasefire appeared first on The American Conservative.

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A major outage has affected 'half the internet', with millions of people left unable to access sites including Snapchat, Fortnite, and Duolingo, as well as several banking apps. At 11:35 BST (6:35am ET), Amazon said the underlying issue has been 'fully mitigated', adding that 'most operations are succeeding normally now'. However, the outage continues to wreak havoc around the globe, with millions of customers still experiencing issues accessing their favorite sites.

A Monday morning Amazon Web Services outage downed dozens of major websites and apps worldwide for hours. Amazon Web Services provides infrastructure for many big-name companies, as well as state and local governments. Applications like Snapchat, Roblox, Duolingo and Fortnite were all affected, according to outage detecting site Downdetector. The outage also affected Amazon Alexa, Ring cameras, airport kiosks and more.

Amazon said its cloud computing service was recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world. Amazon Web Services provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press. The first signs of trouble emerged at around 3:11 a.m. Eastern Time, when Amazon Web Services reported on its Health Dashboard that it is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region.” Around 6 a.m. Eastern Time, the company said that it was seeing recovery across most of the affected services. “We can confirm global services and features that rely on US-EAST-1 have also recovered,” it said, adding that it is working on a “full resolution.” Amazon said its cloud computing service was recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world on Monday.