Here are Thursday’s latest updates from the U.S.-Iran cease-fire and Israel’s war with Hezbollah:
■ The Israeli military launched a wave of strikes on the city of Tyre in Lebanon, after ordering its 200,000 residents to evacuate north of the Zahrani River two hours earlier.
■ An indictment was filed on Thursday against Yonatan Urich, an advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the “Bibileaks” affair; Urich is accused of providing secret information with the intent to harm state security.
■ Tehran condemned the U.S. attack on areas in Iran’s Bandar Abbas, the country’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said in a statement on Thursday.
■ At least ten people were killed and 18 wounded in an Israeli strike that targeted an apartment in a building in Gaza City on Wednesday evening, Al-Arabi reported.
■ Following an Israeli evacuation order on Wednesday night, heavy airstrikes were reported across southern Lebanon, including Nabatieh, Sidon and Tyre; at least eight people have been killed, including children.
■ Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called to “destroy 10 buildings in Beirut’s suburb for every drone. For every drone that harms one of our soldiers, destroy a hundred buildings,” in a post on X memorializing Sergeant Rotem Yanai, 20, who was killed by an exploding drone in northern Israel on Wednesday, the IDF announced.
■ The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, an agency that forces international shippers to comply with Iranian regulations in the Strait of Hormuz, CNN reported.
■ The United Nations added Israel to the blacklist of countries that commit sexual violence in conflict zones, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations announced.