Emily Fang

Meanwhile, U.S.

Treasury Secretary Scott Besant told Sunday morning talk shows that an extra 100% tariff that President Trump had threatened was, quote, effectively off the table now, as was a potentially punishing export control regime that China was trialing for rare earth materials.

Emily Fang, NPR News.

Beijing said Chinese Premier He Lifeng will be meeting U.S.

Trade Representative Jameson Greer and the Treasury Secretary Scott Besant.

Besant said before he headed to Malaysia that he was optimistic about the talks, but a potential stumbling block is rare earths.

China controls up to 90% of the refining of these key minerals and metals used in all sorts of electronics.

And Beijing recently widened its controls on the export of rare earth products.

That prompted President Trump this month to impose an additional 100% tariff on all Chinese imports.

The trade meeting will also help set the tone for a meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Trump that the White House says will be next week in South Korea.

Emily Fang, NPR News.

Gaza's Ministry of Health said this week about 30 percent of those killed so far in this war are children.

This has been the most deadly and destructive war the Palestinian enclave has ever been subjected to.

NPR's reporter in Gaza, Anas Baba, spoke to 22-year-old Ahmed Abu Saif.

He says for him, the last two years of war have turned his life from that of a normal university student to one where he is constantly looking for water, shelter, and fearing for his family's lives.

Emily Fang, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

Here in the kibbutz of near Oz, just miles from the border with Gaza, Hamas-led militants killed 47 people, a devastating blow for the tiny agricultural community.

The new chairman of the kibbutz, Zika Tesler, has been tasked with rebuilding.

And he says there's tension among the kibbutz's residents over what to do with the burned and bullet-ridden husks of homes the Palestinian militants left behind.

Some residents want to leave the ruins.