Here are Wednesday’s key updates on Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and the Middle East:

■ Turkish Foreign ⁠Minister Hakan Fidan ‌will travel to Washington instead of President Tayyip Erdogan for the ⁠inaugural meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Board ⁠of Peace” on Thursday, the foreign ministry said.

■ The commander of the Iranian Navy warned the Islamic regime would respond to foreign military fleets in the region with “greater force,” as reported in the semi-official Tasnim news agency.

■ The IDF announced that during Ramadan, 10,000 Palestinians from the West Bank will be allowed to attend Friday prayers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, in accordance with police recommendations. The IDF said that entry is only allowed for men above the age of 55, women above the age of 50, and children up to the age of 12, accompanied by an adult of first-degree kinship.

■ The IDF announced that Staff Sergeant Ofri Yafe was killed by Israeli fire during an IDF search of a suspicious building in the southern Gaza Strip and was mistakenly identified as a terrorist.

■ Iran ‌and Russia will ‌conduct navy drills in ⁠the Sea of Oman ⁠and the northern Indian Ocean on Thursday, the Iranian semi-official Fars news ‌agency reported, a few ‌days after Revolutionary Guards conducted military drills in the Strait of Hormuz.

■ The court ordered Kan journalist Omri Assenheim to give police the raw interview with former adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Eli Feldstein, who leaked a highly classified IDF army document to German tabloid Bild.

■ The Vatican will not participate in Trump’s Board of Peace initiative, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s top diplomatic official, said on Tuesday, while adding that efforts to handle crises should be managed by the United Nations.

■ More than 80 actors, directors and other artists who have taken part in the Berlin Film Festival, including Tilda Swinton and Javier Bardem, signed an open letter to the organizers published on Tuesday calling for them to take a clear stance on Israel’s war in Gaza.

■ On a Fox News interview Tuesday evening, U.S. Vice President JD Vance described the recent talks with Iran as “in some ways… went well,” but noted that Tehran is still unwilling to accept some of President Donald Trump’s nuclear red lines.