Here are the latest updates from day 32 of war in Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, the United States, Lebanon, Iran and the Middle East:
■ The IDF identified about 45 rocket launches from Lebanon toward northern Israel; most were intercepted and some fell in open areas.
■ New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani visited the United Nations Headquarters for a private meeting with Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday.
■ The USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier and its accompanying warships are being deployed to the Middle East, which would make it the third U.S. aircraft carrier in the region, American officials said, according to the Wall Street Journal.
■ Four were wounded in northern Israel following a continuous Hezbollah rocket barrage throughout the evening, three of whom were evacuated to the hospital, emergency services said. A six-year-old was lightly wounded by shattered glass in his home in Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta’ot, but did not require hospital treatment.
■ The journalist kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraq was identified as Al-Monitor correspondent Shelly Kittleson, who holds American citizenship, Iraqi police sources told Reuters.
■ The European Union issued a statement expressing its deep concern about the “de facto discriminatory character” of the death penalty to terrorists bill, which passed in Israel on Monday.
■ Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said he has been receiving direct messages from U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff but they do not constitute “negotiations,” Qatar’s Al Jazeera TV cited him as saying on Tuesday.
■ U.S. President Donald Trump told the New York Post that war in Iran won’t last “much longer,” adding, “We’re obliterating the shit out of them right now, it’s a total obliteration,” and that the Strait of Hormuz will “automatically open” after the U.S. exits the region.