Here are Thursday’s latest updates:<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Talks aimed at the gradual opening of the Strait of Hormuz are ongoing, with news regarding the ships stuck in the waterway expected in the coming hours, Saudi television Al Arabiya reported.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 \u2060Iran \u200cdenied any involvement \u200cby its armed forces in damage \u2060to a South \u2060Korean vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, its embassy in Seoul said.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Three people were killed in Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon and paramedics were wounded in Toul, Lebanese media reported.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 The IDF said it killed Ahmed Ali Balout, commander of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force, in the first strike in Beirut since the U.S.-mediated cease-fire.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Hezbollah launched several rockets at IDF troops in southern Lebanon, the IDF said, with no Israeli injuries reported.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 The son of Hamas political bureau head Khalil al-Hayya, Azzam, has died of wounds sustained from an Israeli strike on Wednesday, al-Shifa Hospital said.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 The shortage of essential medicines, medical supplies and laboratory testing equipment in the Gaza Strip is growing worse, the Gazan Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 The IDF said it foiled an attempted drone smuggling of 11 pistols from Jordan to Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Thursday’s latest updates: \u25a0 Talks aimed at the gradual opening of the Strait of Hormuz are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[157718,49,54,50,51,86,1031,85,46,9152,43],"class_list":["post-429833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-2026-israel-iran-war","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-u-s","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429833","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=429833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}