Here are the latest updates from day 25 of war in Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Iran and the Middle East:

■ Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed that Israel will control a “security zone” up to the Litani in Lebanon, and hundreds of thousands of residents of southern Lebanon will not return “until security is guaranteed in northern Israel.”

■ Lebanon ‌has withdrawn ‌accreditation from the Iranian ⁠ambassador and ⁠declared him persona non grata, demanding his departure from ‌Lebanon by ‌Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday.

■ Twenty missile launches from Lebanon were identified on Tuesday morning; police reported that shrapnel fell in several areas but no casualties or property damage have been reported.

■ Sirens sounded across Israel and the West Bank over the course of eight Iranian missile barrages, with damage and light injuries reported across the country.

■ Mohammad ‌Bagher Zolghadr, retired Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military commander, ⁠was appointed ⁠as the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National ‌Security Council, ‌the Iranian president’s deputy of communications posted on X ⁠on Tuesday, replacing Ali ‌Larijani ⁠who ‌was killed in ⁠a strike last week.

■ The IDF announced that its Air Force completed a “wide-scale wave of strikes” on Monday that struck over 50 regime infrastructure sites in Tehran, including two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence command centers, an Iranian Intelligence Ministry command center, weapons storage facilities and aerial defense systems, as well as ballistic missile storage and launch sites.

■ Settlers set fire to a building in the village of a-Tuwani in the West Bank’s South Hebron Hills on Monday night and sprayed painted price tag graffiti, one of which read: “Avi Bluth, revenge,” referring to the IDF Central Command head.

■ The U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office summoned the Iranian ambassador to the U.K. in response to two Iranian individuals suspected of providing assistance to a foreign intelligence service, according to a statement from the office after they appeared in court on Thursday, accused of conducting hostile surveillance of Jewish and Israeli targets in London on behalf of Iranian intelligence.

■ The pardon request for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moved forward as far-right Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu (Otzma Yehudit) submitted his opinion to President Isaac Herzog, along with the Justice Ministry’s Pardons Department opinion and supporting materials.