{"id":271501,"date":"2026-02-03T08:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/271501\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:06:12","slug":"iran-willing-to-begin-talks-with-u-s-if-trump-doesnt-threaten-tehran-president-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/271501\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Willing to Begin Talks With U.S., if Trump Doesn’t Threaten Tehran, President Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are Monday’s latest updates on Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and the wider Middle East:<\/p>\n

\u25a0 UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that Israel is violating the UN charter by cracking down on UNRWA operations in East Jerusalem, noting the demolition of the agency’s building in January and “threats” against its personnel.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 The Ashkelon Magistrate’s Court extended the detention of a relative of Shin Bet Chief David Zini<\/a>, who is suspected of smuggling goods from Israel into Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Opposition leader Yair Lapid met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said, “The entire State of Israel is united against Iran. We have no disagreements about the importance of dealing with this threat.”<\/p>\n

\u25a0 A meeting between Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi and U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff will take place in Istanbul, Turkey on Friday, a source said.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 A joint military exercise between a U.S. destroyer warship and Israeli Navy vessels took place on Sunday off the southern Israeli port city of Eilat, the IDF said.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Former Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi admitted to leaking a video showing the abuse of a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman military base to the media but claimed during her interrogation that the act did not constitute a criminal offense, Haaretz has learned.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Netanyahu said at the Knesset’s 77th anniversary event that “there are people who think they are above the nation, who tell the Knesset and the government \u2013 ‘Who do you think you are?'” amid ongoing disputes over the coalition’s efforts to overhaul Israel’s judiciary.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara called for an urgent hearing to address petitions on the “Broadcasting Bill,” <\/a>due to serious concerns of damaging freedom of expression and freedom of press.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Gaza’s Health Ministry reported on Monday that five people were killed and four others wounded in the past 24 hours as a result of Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n

\u25a0 The IDF struck several “Hezbollah weapons storage facilities” in southern Lebanon, including one facility in a civilian area, after issuing an evacuation notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Monday’s latest updates on Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and the wider Middle East: \u25a0 UN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,54,50,51,86,1031,85,87,46,9152,1513,43,3215],"class_list":{"0":"post-271501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-gaza","11":"tag-hamas","12":"tag-hezbollah","13":"tag-idf","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-israel-u-s","18":"tag-israel-gaza-war","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-october-7"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}