Here are Wednesday’s latest updates :<\/p>\n
\u25a0 U.S. President Donald Trump defended his handling of the Iran war, saying it “has been a tremendous military success,” and said he does not believe that the war will start again.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Trump said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “has been a very good ally,” praising him for staying out of the Iran war despite not being “a huge fan of Bibi or Israel.”<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Erdogan said \u200cthat \u2060Trump has a positive \u2060view on selling F-35 jets to Turkey, and Erdogan hoped that the world would \u200csee the United States \u200ckeep its promise. He also dismissed Israeli and \u200cGreek opposition to Turkey acquiring F-35 jets, saying they “have no place in my world.”<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Trump informed Congress of his administration’s intent to rescind Syria’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism after a 45-day pre-notification period, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Two \u200cpeople were \u2060killed \u2060after an Israeli drone strike near a \u200chospital \u200cin Nabatieh al-Fawqa in southern Lebanon, the \u2060Lebanese state news agency \u200creported.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Lebanon is demanding that Israel withdraw from two agreed-upon “pilot areas” in the south of its territory as a condition for Lebanon’s attendance in the next round of direct talks in Rome, AFP news agency reported, citing a diplomatic source familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 The Board of Peace is planning a pilot zone \u200cin the Gaza Strip where a newly recruited and trained police force would act as law enforcement alongside multinational peacekeepers, and the committee of Palestinian technocrats formed under Trump’s plan would exercise its authority, a board official said.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 President Isaac Herzog said that “Israel’s security and law enforcement agencies are not loyal to any individual or camp<\/a>, but to the sovereign \u2013 the people \u2013 to Israel’s legal code, and to the values of the Jewish and democratic state.” His remarks came a day after Shin Bet Director David Zini <\/a>said he agreed to take the position because he was better than others at remaining loyal to the elected leadership.<\/p>\n \u25a0 IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir spoke out against granting exemptions to military service, saying, “We must not exempt anyone from the yoke of the commandment to defend the state.” He made the remarks after the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee discussed a bill that would prevent the arrest of ultra-Orthodox draft evaders<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u25a0 The IDF said it located the burial site of Pvt. Yaakov Zarihan, who was killed during the 1948 War of Independence while participating in a supply convoy to besieged Jerusalem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Wednesday’s latest updates : \u25a0 U.S. President Donald Trump defended his handling of the Iran war,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[157718,49,54,50,51,86,1031,85,99446,46,9152,1513,43],"class_list":["post-532308","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-iran-u-s","tag-israel","tag-israel-u-s","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532308","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=532308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}