Here are just some of our article on the conflict in the last 24 hours.

• Inside the White House’s outreach to the family of the slain 6-year-old Palestinian American boy
• Israel-Hamas war ignites fight between Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley
• Biden urges aid for Israel and Ukraine and calls on Israel ‘not to be blinded by rage'
• U.N. calls for cease-fire to break bottleneck at Rafah Crossing and get aid into Gaza
• Drones attack U.S. troops in Syria as tensions flare in Middle East over Gaza hospital blast
• Israel is primed for a Gaza ground assault ‘soon,’ former PM says, despite delays and concerns
• Veteran State Dept Official resigns over U.S.’ ‘blind support’ of Israel in its war against Hamas
• Death threats and doxxing: War with Hamas fuels free speech debate on Israeli college campuses
• E.U. demands Meta and TikTok detail efforts to curb disinformation from Israel-Hamas war

Former NBC News foreign correspondent Martin Fletcher said today that two members of his wife’s family are being held hostage by Hamas.

Fletcher, NBC News’ former Middle East correspondent, told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle that he found out only today.

“This is a very personal thing,” Fletcher said. The two are Americans from Evanston, Illinois, who were in Israel visiting their grandmother for her 85th birthday, he said.

“They were last seen, their hands tied, being dragged away by the Hamas terrorists,” Fletcher said. “So it’s personal, it’s real, and nobody is really confident that it’s possible to get them back alive. Of course, everybody’s hoping.”

WASHINGTON — A Jewish American woman who survived the Hamas terrorist attack on the Supernova music festival that killed at least 260 people in Israel was in Washington today to plead for support from U.S. government officials.

Natalie Sanandanji, a New Yorker born to Israeli and Iranian parents, said she feels “detached” from her near-death experience.

“I do believe that the fact that I feel so detached is what’s giving me the strength to share my story, and for now I’m going to use that strength because I share my story as much as I can,” she told NBC News at the Capitol.

Sanandanji, 28, met with second gentleman Doug Emhoff and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, including Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who is the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in U.S. history.

Biden’s call for “building a better Middle East” may be a difficult argument to make, but it’s one that’s necessary, NBC News’ Keir Simmons reports.

As the Hamas-Israel conflict continues in the Middle East, U.S. officials are spotlighting an increase in reported threats against Jewish, Muslim and Arab communities and institutions in the United States.