Here are Wednesday’s latest updates:<\/p>\n
\u25a0 The Israel Air Force struck two armed Hezbollah operatives who posed a threat to Israeli troops in southern Lebanon’s Ali al-Taher Ridge area, the IDF said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Israel will not withdraw from southern Lebanon “even if there is an American demand to do so,” leaving 200,000 displaced Lebanese residents “who will not return.”<\/p>\n
\u25a0 The \u200cEuropean Union’s diplomatic service has proposed \u200ca three-year military and civilian mission to \u2060advise and train Lebanese forces, \u2060according to a document seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Gulf \u200cstates are \u2060expected to \u200cpush for no transit fees in the Strait of Hormuz, while Iran could \u2060propose environmental, navigation and security fees in talks on the \u200creopening and future operation \u200cof the Strait, a diplomat briefed on the talks told Reuters.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Ships have already sailed through the Strait of Hormuz under the UN shipping agency’s evacuation scheme, a UN spokesperson said. According to ship tracking data, at least two dry bulk ships and one cargo ship sailed through Hormuz under the UN scheme in the past 12 hours.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Iran \u200cwill address matters related to \u200caccess to nuclear sites \u2060that have been attacked \u2060and to Iranian nuclear materials only in the framework of a final agreement with the United \u200cStates and after \u200cpractical steps are taken to lift U.S. sanctions, Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Two people were killed, including a child, and 14 people were wounded and taken to hospitals in the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 An unarmed suspect was apprehended by the IDF and taken for questioning following a suspicion of the “presence of a Hamas terrorist” near Gaza’s Kerem Shalom crossing, the military said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich declared some 115 acres in the central West Bank as state land for the purpose of expanding the Israeli settlement of Givat Haroeh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Wednesday’s latest updates: \u25a0 The Israel Air Force struck two armed Hezbollah operatives who posed a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[157718,49,54,50,9150,51,42,86,1031,9152,1513,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-508815","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-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508815","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=508815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508815\/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=508815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}