Covering conflict in Israel and Palestine, India and Pakistan, and there's a new pope

It feels like the whole world caught fire, or threatened to, while we were on our special topic last week. So this week we're covering some of the most important news stories from our feeds. Listen and commiserate with us as we grapple with how difficult it can be to stay (accurately) informed!Read along with us:Israeli plan to "capture" Gaza: 1. Israel security cabinet approves plan to ‘capture’ Gaza, official says ( David Gritten, BBC); 2. Gaza is starving as Israel's aid blockade continues, aid official says (Erika Ryan, Juana Summers, Christopher Intagliata for NPR); 3. One in five people in Gaza face starvation, report warns, as Israel’s months-long blockade continues ( Lex Harvey, Abeer Salman for CNN); 4. Trump’s middle east trip: 5 things to watch (  Brett Samuels and Alex Gangitano, The Hill); 5. [live]Trump Middle East trip and presidency news (Betsy Klein, Deva Lee, Antoinette Radford, Shania Shelton and Aditi Sangal, for CNN) India and Pakistan conflict: 1. Why are India and Pakistan fighting? (ABC/wires) 2. A timeline of tensions between India and Pakistan (Lars Dolder, Mujib Mashal, Salman Masood and John Yoon, for the NYT); 3. Will the ceasefire in the Kashmir conflict hold? (Thomas Latschan, DW) Pope Leo XIV: "An American Pope" (Michael Barbaro, Jason Horowitz for the NYT podcast "The Daily")