Here are Sunday’s updates:
■ Israeli far-right lawmaker Tzvi Succot, chair of the Knesset Education Committee, visited a school in Rahat, the largest Arab city of Israel, on Sunday after the municipality announced it would shut down all educational institutions in protest of his visit. The municipality described the visit as a political provocation, saying it had been arranged without coordination with the city’s leadership or education officials.
■ A pilot plan for the phased deployment of Lebanon’s army in the country’s south has yet to be scheduled because the Lebanese military refuses to coordinate directly with Israel and will not enter any area before Israeli troops withdraw, Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen newspaper reported Sunday, citing an official source in Beirut.
■ Qatar condemned Iran’s attacks on its territory and other Arab countries, calling them a serious escalation that complicates efforts to contain tensions in the region, the Foreign Ministry said.
■ U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham died on Saturday evening after a brief and sudden illness, the communications director for his office said in a post on X early on Sunday.
■ The U.S. Central Command said it completed a third round of strikes against Iran on Saturday, hitting approximately 140 Iranian military targets with precision munitions.
■ Iran’s IRGC said on Sunday it struck and disabled a second vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, targeted the U.S. strategic air base at Al Udeid in Qatar with ballistic missiles, destroying its fighter jet maintenance center and command and control facility and destroyed logistical support centers and refueling platforms for U.S. aircraft carriers at the Port of Duqm in Oman.
■ Qatar’s former ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani died at age 74, state news agency reported.