There is fresh optimism in the Middle East that a ceasefire deal in the Israel-Hamas war is closer than ever. CBS News’ Chris Livesay reports. Then, Jon Alterman, senior vice president and director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joins “The Daily Report” to analyze why.

Analysts estimate Bashar al-Assad’s regime raked in $5 billion per year from the Captagon drug trade, dwarfing Syria’s official budget and making it a lifeline for the bankrupted country. Imtiaz Tyab has new details about what was discovered about the trade after Assad’s rule collapsed.

The family of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was killed by a member of Israel’s security forces back in September in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, is demanding a U.S. investigation into her death. Her sister, Ozden Bennett, and Eygi’s widower, Hamid Ali Aysenur, speak to “The Daily Report.”