Welcome to the News Hour. In Israel today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's considering

alternative options to ceasefire talks with Hamas that comes after Israel and the U.S. pulled their

negotiating teams out of talks in Qatar yesterday. And it echoes a statement by White House Special

Envoy Steve Whitkoff, who said Hamas was showing what he called a lack of desire to reach a deal.

Hamas says negotiations are set to resume next week, but while leaving the White House today,

President Trump suggested Israel's only option is to escalate the war.

It got to be to a point where you're going to have to finish the job.

So now we're down to the final hostages

and they know what happens after you get the final hostages. And basically because of that,

they really didn't want to make a deal. I saw that. So they pulled out and they're going to

have to fight.

On the ground in Gaza, health authorities say nine more Palestinians died of malnutrition in the past day.

All told, officials say hunger has claimed more than 120 lives since the start of the war, most of them children.

This week, Israel showed journalists what it says is aid piled up by the border waiting to be distributed by the United Nations.

But the U.N. says its operations are limited by Israeli military restrictions and looting.

European diplomats met with Iran's deputy foreign minister today in an effort to restart

negotiations over limiting Tehran's nuclear program.

It was the first round of talks since Iran's 12-day war with Israel last month,

during which U.S. bombers damaged Iran's nuclear sites.

Today, representatives from Britain, France, and Germany left the Iranian consulate in Istanbul

after four hours of talks.

All sides pledged to meet again.

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