Here are Wednesday’s latest updates:
■ Indirect U.S.-Iran talks in Doha focused on frozen Iranian funds and the Strait of Hormuz, with reports saying the U.S. agreed to release $3 billion and that a channel would be established to monitor violations of the deal.
■ An Israeli source familiar with Iran’s nuclear program said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that Iran had already obtained nuclear weapons was a “complete lie.”
■ U.S. Central Command hosted regional defense talks in Bahrain attended by military leaders from Syria and Lebanon for the first time at a U.S.-led regional defense conference.
■ Israel moved Gaza returnee security screenings from Rafah to the Kerem Shalom Crossing, where returning Palestinians reported confiscation of personal items and money disappearing from their bags.
■ The IDF and Shin Bet said they killed Adel Jihad Mohammad Asfour, a Hamas platoon commander who they said was planning imminent attacks on Israeli troops in Gaza.
■ Israel and the United States signed an agreement to build a permanent U.S. embassy compound in Jerusalem on land Palestinian families say was expropriated from them in 1950.