According to its FARA filing, Show Faith by Works has been hired by Israel to run a $3.2m outreach and digital targeting campaign to foster “positive associations with the Nation of Israel” in churches in the US and portray “the Palestinian population” as “extremist”.

The United States has spent more than $30 billion on the war in Gaza and associated conflicts in the Middle East, with more than half of this figure devoted to military support for Israel, a new report shared with Newsweek has found.

Israel has strengthened its security with a series of sweeping military victories in the past two years. It has also become far more isolated internationally, with no clear path ahead.

Israel threatened to step up military strikes against Hezbollah and a senior US envoy warned Beirut that time was running out to disarm the Iranian-backed Lebanese faction.

Azaiza knows that he’s lucky to be alive. “My life is worth more now than if I was dead,” he told CNN earlier this month. “A lot of Gazans got killed. Nobody mentions their names.”

Along Lebanon's border, Israel has continued demolitions and attacks despite a ceasefire in the country's war with Hezbollah last year.

One of the bomb shelters in Kibbutz Nahal Oz in southern Israel, October 28, 2025. Hamas gunmen killed 15 people from Nahal Oz and took eight more hostage to Gaza on October 7, 2023. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun NAHAL OZ,