Here are Friday’s latest updates:
■ Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammed Baqer Ghalibaf, said Tehran must develop a strategy to overcome what he called “unjust sanctions,” a day after the U.S. announced new economic measures against Iran.
■ Iran’s armed forces will respond to any “miscalculation” or conventional or emerging threat with a “crushing, regrettable and devastating” response, Chief of Staff Major General Ali Abdollahi said, according to Iranian state media.
■ Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said his government is committed to establishing a single army under unified state authority, declaring that “no weapon can prevail over the state’s weapon.” He also said Lebanon was seeking a full Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
■ Lebanese media reported overnight Israeli airstrikes on several areas of southern Lebanon, including the Tyre region and villages in the Nabatiya district. There was no immediate comment from the IDF.
■ Two Palestinians were seriously wounded by gunfire during an Israeli settler raid near the West Bank village of Sa’ir, north of Hebron, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported. Palestinian media also reported that settlers set fire to a building, as well as a Palestinian quarry in the Wadi al-Rakhim area of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, during overnight raids.
■ The IDF said a Palestinian man armed with a knife was shot and killed after attempting to stab a soldier during military activity in the Jenin area. No Israeli injuries were reported.
■ The IDF said it killed a Hamas military commander in central Gaza who it said took part in the October 7 attack, held Israeli hostages during the war and was involved in their handover to the International Committee of the Red Cross in November 2023.
■ Poland summoned Israel’s ambassador and expressed “very strong disappointment” over Israel’s decision not to pursue criminal proceedings into the 2024 Gaza strike that killed seven World Central Kitchen workers, including a Polish citizen. Canada also called the decision “unacceptable.”
■ Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim condemned Israel’s decision to issue tenders for more than 1,200 housing units in the E1 West Bank settlement project, warning that construction there would undermine the possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state.
■ Doctors Without Borders condemned the IDF’s decision not to open criminal investigations into two incidents involving the group’s personnel and facilities in Gaza during the war. The group said the cases included a 2023 attack on a convoy and a 2024 strike on a shelter in Khan Yunis.