President Trump secretly signed a directive ordering the Pentagon to begin using military force against Latin American drug cartels that his administration has deemed terrorist organizations.

The move was the most aggressive step so far in the president’s campaign against the cartels. It indicated that Trump plans to use the armed forces to carry out what in the past was considered law enforcement, and it provided an official basis for military operations against cartels at sea or on foreign soil.

U.S. military officials have started drawing up options for how they could go after the cartels, though it’s not yet clear what it would look like. Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said today that American troops were not welcome in her country: “We cooperate, we collaborate, but there is not going to be an invasion,” she said. “That is ruled out, absolutely ruled out.”

Israel said it was preparing to take control of Gaza City

The Israeli security cabinet voted early this morning to approve a plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to escalate its nearly two-year-old campaign in the Gaza by taking control of Gaza City.