Here are Thursday’s latest updates from the U.S.-Iran peace process and Israel’s war with Hezbollah:<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Iran’s \u2060Supreme Leader \u200cMojtaba Khamenei said he had authorised a \u2060memorandum of understanding signed by the \u2060Iranian and U.S. presidents, despite holding a different view, after receiving assurances from President Masoud Pezeshkian. <\/p>\n
\u25a0 U.S. Vice President JD Vance rebuked Israeli cabinet ministers critical of the emerging U.S.-Iran deal, saying they should not be “attacking the only powerful ally” Israel has left “in the entire world.”<\/p>\n
\u25a0 The United States has lifted its naval blockade on Iran following U.S. President Donald Trump’s orders, U.S. Central Command said.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces will remain in the IDF-occupied buffer zone in southern Lebanon “so long as Israel’s security needs require it.”<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on a vehicle in Gaza City, medical sources said. In Lebanon, three people were killed in Israeli strikes in the Nabatieh governorate, Lebanon’s National News Agency said.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said Israel will cut ties with the European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas over her reported equivalence of Israel and apartheid-era South Africa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Thursday’s latest updates from the U.S.-Iran peace process and Israel’s war with Hezbollah: \u25a0 Iran’s \u2060Supreme…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[157718,49,54,50,9150,51,42,86,1031,9152,1513,43,3215,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-500164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-2026-israel-iran-war","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-aid","tag-hamas","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel-u-s","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-news","tag-october-7","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500164","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=500164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}