Here are Sunday’s latest updates:

■ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to comments made in June by U.S. Vice President JD Vance that Israel was alienating its only major ally, saying he has a good relationship with both Vance and U.S. President Donald Trump. “We have many other friends as well,” Netanyahu said.

■ The Israeli military confirmed that Israeli civilians attempted to cross the border with Syria following reports that an Israeli settlement had been established in Syria’s Daraa governorate.

■ Israeli helicopter and artillery fire were reported in southern Lebanon, as President Joseph Aoun told the press that although he is “not enthusiastic about Israel” and is waiting for “any solution or agreement that will get us out of the wars.”

■ Hamas is expected to announce that it will dismantle its government in the Gaza Strip, the Saudi-owned Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported, citing Hamas sources.

■ Maritime ‌trade between Iran ⁠and Qatar has ⁠resumed after a roughly five-month suspension, Iran’s commercial attaché ‌in Doha ‌told state media.

■ Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that “Pardoning Netanyahu is not enough,” and that senior officials in the Israel Police, the State Prosecutor’s Office and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara should be imprisoned over what he called their efforts to “stitch up” criminal charges against the prime minister.

■ President Isaac Herzog said the Israeli government’s decision to defy a High Court of Justice ruling was a “red line that must not be crossed under any circumstances.” According to Herzog, such statements “harm the very core of national unity.”

■ In response to the government’s decision to defy a High Court ruling, opposition lawmaker Naama Lazimi said Netanyahu should be arrested for incitement and state security offences.

■ Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu compared anti-government activists charged with firing maritime flares at Netanyahu’s home in 2024 to hijackers involved in the 1976 Entebbe raid, saying, “Sometimes in the name of peace, terrible moral injustices are committed.”